Lebanese President Michel Aoun has phoned Syria's Bashar al-Assad to discuss the demarcation of Lebanon-Syria maritime borders, according to Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe. The move came after the Syrian regime offered a Russian oil company the right to conduct oil...

Russia sparred with the United States and its allies Tuesday over a vote later this month that could strip Syria of voting rights in the international chemical weapons watchdog, with Moscow accusing the West of trying to “demonize Damascus” and the U.S. demanding a strong message to...

A decade since the start of the popular uprising, the Syrian lira is in an unprecedented freefall after years of armed conflict, an economic crisis in neighboring Lebanon, deep-seated corruption and cronyism, and Western economic sanctions targeting Syrian government officials as well as...

Syrian Christians gathered Sunday in a church in Damascus amidst a second Easter under coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Church goers wore masks and attempted to social distance in one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year. Jimmy Babek, a scout at Our Lady of Damascus,...