BEIRUT (AP) — Bashar Assad made a rare visit to the northern province of Aleppo on Friday to inaugurate a power station that was once held by insurgents and suffered wide damages during the war, state media reported. Government-held parts of Syria endure more than 12 hours of power cuts a...

The U.N. Security Council has called a meeting for Friday after having to put off a vote on extending humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey when no compromise could be reach on how long it would run. Russia, one of the council's five members with veto power,...

The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed that the violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Syrian regime and Russia in northwest Syria are continuing without any deterrent to stop these attacks, the number of which exceeded 2,122 in six months.   The relief group stressed that...

As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months — not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and more than...

BEIRUT: Lebanon plans to start sending back tens of thousands of Syrian refugees within months over objections by the UN and rights groups, a minister said in an interview on Wednesday. Lebanon has one of the world’s highest numbers of refugees per capita and currently hosts over 1...

Germany will allow some 130,000 resident foreigners to regularize their immigration status and create new incentives for skilled workers to come from abroad amid unprecedented labour shortages that are contributing to spiralling inflation. The new immigration law, the first of three planned...

Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) opposition forces continue their preparations to support a possible Turkish cross-border military operation against terrorist groups in northern Syria. The SNA, which provides security in the regions exposed to the attacks of the Kurdish YPG forces,...

About two dozen people protested Wednesday in front of the health department in Idlib against the possible closure of the Bab al-Hawa crossing that brings in international aid into northwest of Syria. The protest was organized by the Directorate of Health in Idlib along with other...

Beirut (AFP) – A closure of the last aid corridor from Turkey into northwest Syria's rebel-held areas would spell "catastrophe" for millions of people, a UN aid official has warned. "This is one of the most vulnerable populations anywhere in the world," said Mark Cutts, UN deputy regional...

PARIS (AP) — French authorities on Tuesday repatriated 51 women and children from the former Islamic State-controlled areas in Syria, according to a statement from the national antiterrorist prosecutor’s office. It’s the single largest return of women and children to France from camps in...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who arrived in Syria on Saturday, held a series of meetings with high-ranking Syrian officials focusing on bilateral and regional issues. The discussions between Amir-Abdollahian, his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad and Bashar al-Assad...

The EU condemned civilians deaths in the conflict in Syria on Friday. “The EU condemns in the strongest terms these crimes causing the deaths of so many civilians over more than a decade of conflict. These crimes were mostly perpetrated by the Syrian regime and its allies, including through...

The Syrian regime forces launched since March 2011 arrest campaigns against thousands of Palestinian refugees in Syria, stressing that they focused primarily on targeting elite doctors, media professionals, political activists and opinion leaders who had a prominent and influential presence...

For the second week in a row, the Syrian refugee camps in the Lebanese border town of Arsal are experiencing a shortage of bread resulting from the reduction of flour allocations. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said that the unprecedented bread crisis that the town’s bakeries are witnessing recently...

An Israeli strike on Syria's western coast wounded two civilians on Saturday, the Syrian defence ministry said. "The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike" at about 6:30 am near the town of Al-Hamidiyah, the ministry said in a statement, identifying the locations hit as poultry farms,...

PRAGUE (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm on Friday pledged to draft an emergency plan this month aimed at helping member countries do without Russian energy in the wake of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the initiative would build...

Syrian regime forces blocked a US convoy in the northern province of Qamishli this week, the country's news agency has claimed, amid continued tensions between the two sides. Syrian forces intercepted US troops in the Tal Sateh area, eastern Qamishli, SANA said on Wednesday, which follows...

In January, a cargo ship flying the Honduran flag disappeared from international tracking systems off the coast of Cyprus. When it reappeared a week later, the Sea Navigator was heading north to Europe. But the ship had not got lost – it had slipped into a Russian-controlled port in Syria to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced cutting ties with Syria after Damascus recognized the independence of Ukraine’s two separatist republics. “There will no longer be relations between Ukraine and Syria,” Zelensky said in a video on Telegram. Earlier on Wednesday, the...

A media source revealed that the agreement achieved by Syrian regime head Bashar al-Assad during his recent visit to Iran is to supply Syria with all its actual needs of oil, amounting to three million barrels per month. The Damascus-based source indicated that after the arrival of more...