Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa announced on Friday the appointment of Sheikh Osama al-Rifai as the country's Grand Mufti. This came in a speech during a conference to form the Supreme Fatwa Council and appoint the Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic, according to the country's...

Defense ministers from Lebanon and Syria formalized a security agreement in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah aimed at addressing border threats, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. Thursday’s meeting in Jeddah followed directives from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained photos of a notebook known as the "Death Book," belonging to one of the General Intelligence Directorate offices in Damascus. It contains 2,540 names of detainees during the Hafez al-Assad era, the oldest dating back to the 1980s and the most recent dating back to 1997....

Samah, 35, a displaced person from rural Damascus who resides in Idlib, will not be able to visit her family during the Eid holiday, despite the removal of security and military barriers that separated Syrian cities following the fall of the regime. Samah told Eqtsad that public bus...