The US Treasury Department on Monday issued a final rule removing sanctions on Syria, following President Donald Trump’s earlier order to dismantle Washington’s sanctions regime against Damascus. In a notice, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it was scrapping...

Twenty Palestinians, including five journalists and a firefighter, were killed and several others wounded Monday in an Israeli strike on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, health authorities and eyewitnesses said. The Israeli army shelled the top floor of the...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani accused Israel on Monday of violating the 1974 Disengagement Agreement by establishing intelligence facilities and military posts in demilitarized areas to advance its “expansionist and partition plans.” Shaibani made the remarks at an emergency...

Sanitation workers found on Sunday evening two bodies near an earthen barrier south of the western al-Nashwa neighborhood in Hasakah city.  The bodies belonged to Adel Aminaki and Lund Mousa. According to sources, the two men disappeared for hours before being found dead with multiple...