Daraa and Suweida provinces in Syria saw casualties on Wednesdays as residents fought pro-regime militias in Suweida, while Assad's regime forces shelled Daraa, leaving over a dozen wounded and at least 18 dead. In Daraa, regime forces shelled the city of Tafas in northern Daraa, wounding at...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian cargo ship, sanctioned by the United States and carrying what Ukraine says is stolen barley from the war-torn country, has docked in Lebanon, the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in the Mideast nation said Thursday. According to the Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut, the cargo...

Syria's Defense Ministry on Tuesday released footage of its army's air force conducting joint drills with key ally Russia. Moscow is a key ally of President Bashar Assad, and the Russian army played a key role in pushing back armed opposition groups from overthrowing his government in...

Gunmen supporting Syria's regime and others opposed to Damascus clashed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a war monitor said. Six loyalists and four people against the regime lost their lives after the fighting erupted in two villages in the...

The head of the Syrian Securities and Financial Markets Authority said that he hopes that a new currency of 10,000 Syrian pounds will be introduced, provided that no more than the damaged amount of the old currency will be printed, indicating that he did not confirm or assume that the Central...

Australian authorities must speed up the repatriation of their nationals held in detention centres in Syria following the recent confirmation of the death of a Sydney teenager at a facility in the northeast, UN human rights experts said on Monday.   Yusuf Zahab, 17, had been taken...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Algeria’s foreign minister on Monday decried Syria’s decadelong suspension from the Arab League during a visit to Damascus, indicating support for the war-torn country's return to the organization under President Bashar Assad. Syria was expelled from the 22-member...

The Director General of the Syrian Oil Company said many investments to discover new oil fields in the north and south of Damascus and in central Homs province, local newspaper reported on Sunday. On the sidelines of the "SyrPetro" exhibition, which is currently being held in Damascus, Firas...

Police in North Macedonia have found 86 migrants, including minors, crammed into a truck with an attached trailer in the southern part of the country and arrested the truck driver. The migrants from Pakistan, Syria and India were discovered late Saturday during a routine inspection near the...

The Jordanian army on Friday thwarted an attempt to infiltrate and smuggle weapons and ammunition from Syria into the kingdom, according to a statement published on its website. The Jordanian army indicated that the northern military region, in coordination with the Military Security...

 In a region where the first Arab immigrants arrived in the 19th century and an estimated 18 million people have Middle Eastern roots, Arabic food has become an integral part of the local cuisine in several Latin American countries. A new generation of Arabs on the continent is now seeking...

Dublin’s Special Criminal Court on Friday sentenced former soldier Lisa Smith to 15 months in jail for joining Daesh in Syria. Judge Tony Hunt said the 40-year-old mother of one, from Dundalk on Ireland’s east coast, was a low risk for reoffending. But he said Smith, a Muslim convert,...

 Ghazwan Al-Atman thought he had found refuge in Manbij after years of displacement, but he now fears his family will be uprooted once again as a threatened Turkish onslaught looms over the Syrian town. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has repeatedly vowed to launch a new...

 ,A monitoring rights group says a Russian warplane struck a house on Friday in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border, killing seven civilians, including four children. Syrian Civil Defense volunteers rushed to the house to remove the bodies under the rubble. The Syrian...

 Russia defended its veto of a U.N. resolution that would have extended humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest from Turkey for a year, insisting that its demand for only a six-month extension was essential and accusing Western nations of using “sly”...

Israel launched airstrikes targeting Syrian military positions around Damascus overnight, killing three soldiers, wounding seven others, and causing material damage, state media reported Thursday. Syrian state media quoted a military official as saying the missiles were fired from Syria's...

Iran and Syria on Wednesday warned against any military operation by Turkey in Syria. Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran's foreign minister, said his country is concerned about a possible Turkish operation in northern Syria. He made the comments during a joint news conference with visiting...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government's plan for a new military offensive in northern Syria will be on the table as long as Kurdish militants continue to pose a security threat to his country. Erdogan also called on the United States to pull troops...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Wednesday it is formally breaking diplomatic ties with Ukraine in response to a similar move by Kyiv. Syria is a strong ally of Russia, which joined Syria’s conflict in September 2015 helping tip the balance of power in favor of President Bashar Assad....

The Syrian oil ministry intends to besiege the traffickers of fuel on the black market through several measures, including the installation of GPS, and others related to the installation of sensors on the fuel tanks of the petrol stations in a way that allows it to monitor and track "every drop...