The top US general for the Middle East on Friday met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, the US military and Syrian presidency said. Admiral Brad Cooper met the Syrian president alongside US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack. Cooper’s wife also met with al-Sharaa and his...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained an official document issued by the Engineering Directorate – 166th Regiment, dated July 1, 2017, confirming the presence of minefields planted around the Saydnaya Military Prison. The document also acknowledged the loss of some of the original plans for these fields....

Economic expert George Khazam said that the continued rise in the dollar exchange rate in Syria will not stop. This is due to several reasons, most notably the 200% increase in salaries for more than 700,000 employees, retirees, and military personnel, which has led to a monthly accumulated...

The General Organization for Cement and Building Materials (Omran) signed a strategic agreement with the Saudi Northern Cement Group to strengthen the Syrian cement sector. This agreement builds on a memorandum of understanding previously signed during the Syrian-Saudi Investment Conference....

Saudi Arabia has granted the Syrian Arab Republic 1.65 million barrels of crude oil under the directives of King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  The donation was formalized through a memorandum of understanding signed by Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Marshad, CEO of the Saudi...

Syrian authorities have arrested members of a Hezbollah cell in western Damascus, the Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday. The cell had been operating in the Syrian capital’s countryside towns of Saasaa and Kanaker, according to Brigadier General Ahmed al-Dalati, Commander of...

The German Federal Ministry of the Interior revealed that 1,867 Syrians had returned to their homeland by the end of August with funding from the German federal government. The ministry added, according to the German news agency DPA, that the government provides support to refugees who wish...

Russia said on Tuesday that a new historic phase of relations started with Syria as Moscow plans for an upcoming visit by Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa next month. “Relations between the two peoples will be based on mutual respect in the new historic phase, and we hope that this...

Syrian and Saudi officials met Sunday in Damascus and Riyadh for separate rounds of talks that underscored growing partnership between the two countries across humanitarian, development and agricultural fields.  In the Syrian capital, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani welcomed a Saudi...

Syria’s Interior Ministry on Sunday dismissed reports circulating online that Christians in the western town of Qusayr in Homs province were being singled out in a wave of arrests and forced displacement.   Ministry spokesman Nour al-Din Baba said the allegations, shared by what he...

Syria strongly condemned a series of Israeli airstrikes Monday targeting several areas of the county, describing the attacks as a “blatant violation of international law and the principles of the UN Charter.” Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on the outskirts of the cities of Homs, Lataki...

Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in Syria on Monday in the latest violations of the country’s sovereignty, local media reported. An Israeli strike targeted the outskirts of the western city of Homs, said the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Another strike hit the outskirts...

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday humanitarian projects for Syria including the removal of wartime rubble around Damascus, weeks after inking investment deals worth billions to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure. At an event Sunday in Damascus, the Kingdom’s King Salman Humanitarian...

Minister of Finance Mohammad Yoser Barnieh announced the formation of an advisory committee to study the reality and status of non-performing loans at government banks and to work on presenting practical and legal proposals to address these loan cases. This committee will preserve the rights of...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said that reactivating the Iraq-Syria export pipeline, which was discussed with Syria weeks ago, contributes to diversifying Iraq's export outlet options while providing flexibility in crude oil transportation capacity. Al-Sudani's statement came...

The Syrian pound's exchange rate against the dollar declined on the local black market during trading on Saturday. On Saturday evening, the Damascus dollar ranged between 11,100 Syrian pounds for buying and 11,200 Syrian pounds for selling. The dollar recorded the same or similar rates,...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed support for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, condemning repeated Israeli attacks during a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani. The meeting took place on the sidelines of Thursday's 164th session of the Arab...

Damascus, SANA- In the presence of President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, activities of the Syrian Development Fund were launched on Thursday at Damascus Citadel. Director General of Syrian Development Fund, Mohammad Safwat Raslan, said in a speech at the beginning of the launching ceremony that...

A Syrian security official said a drone strike near Aleppo airport on Thursday killed two people, with state media reporting the attack but without saying who may be behind it. An AFP correspondent saw a vaporized car near the airport in Syria’s north, with shrapnel scattered around it....

While Amnesty International's report addressed the recent violations in the southern province of Sweida—which we condemn and absolutely do not justify—it overlooked a crucial and sensitive aspect: the systematic violations committed against Bedouin tribes and migrants from other Syrian...