Israel claimed Saturday to have struck a weapons storage facility for the Palestinian group Hamas in southern Syria. In a brief statement, the army said the weapons depot was hit in the Deir Ali area in southern Syria, claiming that the weapons were stored to carry out attacks against Israeli...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam formed a new government on Saturday, the first since 2022. President Joseph Aoun said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of former caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and signed a decree with Salam to form the new government....

The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, confirmed on Friday that 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their country after the fall of the Assad regime on December 8. Llosa said that "270,000 Syrian refugees have returned to...

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met in Damascus on Saturday with a delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), led by its director-general, Fernando Gonzalez. The presidency said the meeting was also attended by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani,...