Around 500 soldiers from the Syrian army’s 64th Division stationed in rural Aleppo were hospitalized on Thursday evening following a mass food poisoning incident, according to local sources Friday. Soldiers at the division’s base in the Darat Izza area reported symptoms, including nausea,...

Fires continue to devour green spaces in the coastal area and the western Hama countryside, causing civilian casualties and a massive wave of displacement to neighboring villages amid difficult field and humanitarian conditions. Fire outbreaks are still raging, concentrated in the mountains...

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned the Lebanese government on Friday against confronting the Iran-backed militant group, saying there would be “no life” in Lebanon in that event. Qassem said Hezbollah and the Amal movement had decided to delay any street protests against a US-backed...

More than 410,00 Syrians who fled to Turkey during the rule of Bashar al-Assad have returned home since he was overthrown in December, the government announced Thursday. Turkey’s interior ministry said 411,649 Syrians had so far returned, the rate picking up in recent weeks, with the...