The Syrian regime's Ministry of Internal Trade raised the price of petrol by 127 per cent, the third increase this year, the SANA news agency reported. The agency said the ministry has decided to raise the price of subsidised petrol from 1,100 liras per litre to 2,500 liras. It also raised...

Many fires erupted in separate areas of northwestern Syria, causing great losses to civilian property, the Syrian Civil Defense said on Monday. According to the rescue agency, 7 fires broke out on Sunday, two of which were in forested forests in Deir Othman and Ain Bunduq areas in the...

The Russian Defence Ministry announced on Friday that its air forces had "eliminated" a group of opposition fighters trained by the US in Syria on 4 August. The ministry's statement read: "On 4 August, after the routine reconnaissance operations, Russian fighters eliminated a group of...

A prominent Syrian rights organisation has slammed the alleged arrests of over a dozen journalists and other media workers by Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria last week as a "slap against freedom of speech". The Paris-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said the Syrian...

MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Russia Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin focusing on a grain deal brokered by Turkey and the U.N., prospects for talks on ending hostilities in Ukraine, the situation in Syria and growing economic ties between...

The military has charged Tech. Sgt. David Wayne Dezwaan, Jr., an Air Force explosive ordnance disposal technician, in connection with April’s insider attack on U.S. troops in Syria. Dezwaan, an active duty member of the 775th Civil Engineer Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, most...

Mourners poured out onto the streets of Tehran on Thursday to pay their respects to several Iranian officers killed in Syria, a testament to the human cost of Iran’s involvement in the civil war and a public display of nationalist fervor as nuclear talks resume in Vienna. The remains of the...

A Syrian rights group said Monday it documented the killing of 86 civilians, including children and women, in July.     In a statement, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said 21 children and eight women were among the victims.   Five of the victims were...

BEIRUT (AP) — Ukraine's ambassador to Lebanon on Wednesday insisted a Syrian ship docked at a Lebanese port is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain and urged Lebanon to block the vessel from leaving. The claim comes just days before the tiny cash-strapped country receives Ukraine’s first grain...

Protests broke out in various towns in Syria’s eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, demanding better living conditions and services and the release of detainees held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Local Syrian news websites published Tuesday photos and videos of protests in the...

Opposition figures in northwestern Syria have expressed their rejection of the regime’s participation in the upcoming Arab League summit set for Algeria in November. They criticized Algiers’ insistence on inviting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in spite of its war machine and its allies’...

Syria's Defence Minister was seemingly insulted by the Russian military last week, which prevented him from accompanying the Commander of Russian forces in Syria at a ceremony. On Sunday, the Syrian Defence Minister, Ali Mahmoud Abbas, and the Commander of Russian forces in Syria, Alexander...

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has acknowledged a wheat grain shortage that could affect next year’s production. Wheat received from Rojava areas amounted to about 388,000 tons for flour, while the quantities of raw seeds amounted to about 75,000 tons, the head of...

In Jordan, 12,000 refugee families did not receive monthly benefits in July, according to reports. The families – who are eligible for the benefits – did not receive them due to limited funding and have been put on a waiting list, Jordanian state media outlet Al Mamlaka TV reported the UN's...

An opposition faction destroyed a Syrian regime military headquarters in the war-torn country’s north, leaving casualties. The al-Tahrir wal-Bina Movement, affiliated to the opposition-Syrian National Army (SNA), targeted a building with heavy artillery near the town of Tadif in the Aleppo...

Over 90 percent of displaced people in Northern Syria’s camps are concerned about access to water amid a scorching summer, according to a survey released on Thursday by the Syrian Response Coordination Group. When highlighting their needs, 92 percent of displaced persons (IDPs) surveyed...

BEIRUT: Discrimination and violence against Syrian refugees in Lebanon has soared in recent weeks as the country grapples with high food prices and shortages, the UN refugee agency told the Associated Press on Friday. “We have seen tensions between Lebanese and Syrians at bakeries across the...

A Turkish drone strike in northern Syria killed four Syrian Kurdish fighters on Thursday, the second such attack in recent days, a Kurdish official and a war monitor said. The Kurdish Asayish security forces said that "a drone attacked our forces" in the Ain Issa area in Raqa province,...

Kurdish-affiliated authorities said Thursday they had found the remains of almost 30 bodies in a mass grave in northern Syria, with a war monitor saying they were likely killed by extremists. “At least 29 bodies, including those of a woman and two children, have been found in a mass grave,”...

The Syrian regime has renewed artillery and missile shelling on various areas in Syria’s northwest, as it prepared for a Turkish operation in the country Regime forces attacked the Jabal Al-Zawiya area in the northwestern province of Idlib, as well as areas in the western countryside of...