The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Sunday that the Damascus Countryside Security Directorate received a shipment of weapons and ammunition from residents of the towns of Sahnaya and Ashrafieh Sahnaya. This is part of a local agreement aimed at restricting weapons to the...

On June 28, 2014, the first day of Ramadan, Abdul Aziz Haitham Omar Agha, a 32-year-old Syrian man, was arrested at the al-Qutayfah checkpoint in the Damascus countryside while attempting to leave the country for Turkey. He was accompanied by his wife, two young children (one less than two...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday met with a delegation from the Syrian Turkmen Assembly at the People’s Palace in the capital, Damascus, according to the state-run SANA news agency. The delegation was led by Council President Faisal Juma bin Jassim. SANA released photos of the...

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria warned Friday that renewed violence, including deadly sectarian clashes and Israeli airstrikes, are jeopardizing the country’s “fragile” path toward sustainable peace. "The recent surge in violence and deadly clashes with...