A bomb-laden vehicle exploded in the northwestern Azaz city of Syria on Sunday, killing at least one civilian and wounding six others. The explosion took place in a popular market hall in Sicco village near the Turkish border. Local authorities cordoned off the area, and the wounded were...

Three Syrian soldiers were killed Sunday when gunmen attacked their outpost close to the demarcation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attackers targeted the regime roadblock in the Rouaihaniya district of the southern province of...

Syria said on Sunday it would import more crude oil to cover fuel shortages it blames on Western sanctions that disrupted regular Iranian oil shipments that had for years compensated for the country's loss of domestic oil production as a result of conflict. The sanction-hit country has over...

 Israel's education minister is banning groups that call Israel an "apartheid state" from lecturing at schools - a move that targets one of the country's leading human rights groups after it began describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single "apartheid"...

Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world's most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the number of people put to death last year, following changes halting executions for non-violent drug-related crimes, according to the government’s tally and independent observers. The Saudi...

A small Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Turkish forces in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib.     The Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Squadron said it was behind the attack Saturday that targeted a Turkish military outpost in the northern...

Russian warplanes carried out 40 airstrikes in Deash areas in Syria on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory reported. Russia targeted areas in Aleppo, Hama and Raqqa throughout the day, the Britain-based war monitor reported. Meanwhile national defense forces continued desert...

Rafif Zainia, Syrian IT engineer, has designed an application that enables companies to collect and analyze customer feedback from social networking sites. The app “Emocial” helps companies collect information, and measures customer satisfaction in order to develop their products...

Syrian refugee Fatima Hussein Al Ahmad, a mother of four, lives on a farm with 50 other workers in Sahba, Jordan. COVID-19 travel restrictions meant that didn’t work for two months in 2020, and feeding her family became a daily struggle.  Al Ahmad and her husband pick peaches and...

Syrian Air conducted its first flight in a decade between the northern city of Aleppo and Lebanon’s capital Beirut early Friday, resuming a round-trip route that's been halted since Syria’s conflict began in 2011. Precautionary measures against the coronavirus were in place, with...

Since his arrival two years ago, a suspected Syrian war criminal and member of a regime militia has been living a comfortable life in Montreal, according to regime critics. George Youssef Al-Sheikh is a Christian who received a religious sponsorship as a refugee and a victim of the...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthis in Yemen said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed three explosive-laden drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards Saudi Arabia, state media reported. The coalition said the drones were launched from Yemen's port city of...

The Syrian National Army (SNA) on Thursday thwarted an infiltration attempt by the Bashar Assad regime and Russian forces on the front lines south of Idlib in northwestern Syria. The forces carried out a late-night infiltration operation in the Hama countryside, according to sources in the...

Syria has called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities and take "strict and immediate" action against Israel's repeated air strikes on its neighbour. "The Israeli aggression on Syria coincided with the terrorist acts committed by Al-Qasd militia fighters [Syrian...

The head of the Syrian opposition’s Negotiation Commission said Wednesday the economic hardships and the lack of security must drive the international community, allies and the UN to accelerate the political process forward and implement Resolution 2254 in a swift and effective manner....

Jordan on Thursday began vaccinating the first group of Syrian refugees living in Zaatari camp. 43 elderly refugees received China's Sinopharm vaccine at a vaccination centre in Mafraq city, 70 km east of the capital Amman. 2000 refugees living in Zaatari camp have been...

Israel is revising military options for a possible clash with Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government braces for differences with the incoming U.S. administration on Iranian nuclear policy. U.S. President Donald Trump delighted...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards official denied Thursday that recent Israeli strikes on eastern Syria led to any deaths, the Fars news agency reported. "This attack caused no human losses," Ahad Karimkhani, deputy political head of the Guards' foreign operations arm, the Quds Force, was...

Three Syrian businessmen with close ties to the Syrian government have been linked to the company that bought the explosive material that entered Beirut’s port in 2013 and fuelled a massive explosion in August that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital. The Syrian businessmen, George...

In recent months, the areas controlled by the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the governorate of Deir ez-Zor (eastern Syria) have witnessed assassinations of notables and respected personalities on a near-daily basis. Local sources in the governorate revealed on Wednesday that they had...