A fire and riot broke out in a prison in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria on Saturday, killing at least seven people, state media reported. The SANA news agency said the fire started when inmates in the Kobani prison rioted over tensions that erupted in the town the previous...

Damascus Countryside, Sept. 12 (SANA) Syria’s Drug Enforcement Department in Damascus Countryside foiled an attempt to smuggle large quantities of narcotics in a security operation in al-Nabk, seizing Captagon pills, weapons and explosives. The operation resulted in the seizure of 206,000...

Damascus, Sept. 11 (SANA) Syria’s Baniyas Refinery is undergoing its most extensive overhaul to date, with work aimed at raising processing capacity from around 80,000 to 130,000 barrels per day and improving the reliability of domestic fuel supplies, the Syrian Petroleum Company said....

Damascus, Sept. 11 (SANA) Syria has closed more than 200 displacement camps as part of a nationwide plan to end camp-based displacement by September 2027, Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh said, as the government steps up efforts to help displaced families return...