Syrian health authorities on Saturday received medical assistance to fight the Covid-19 pandemic from the World Health Organization (WHO). 'A delivery note was signed at the International Airport of Damascus for 8.8 tons of medicines, supplies and medical equipment offered by the WHO to...

Hundreds of mourners including Syria's religious affairs minister attended a funeral in Damascus Friday for the state's top Muslim cleric, who was killed in a bombing near the capital. Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni, the Sunni Muslim Mufti of Damascus who was close to President Bashar...

A roadside bombing Thursday killed a senior Syrian cleric who played a key role in government deals with rebel fighters, according to Syrian state media and a government website. The explosion that killed Damascus Mufti Adnan Afiouni took place in the town of Qudsaya, west of the capital of...

 Three Iran-backed paramilitary fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli strike that hit Syria's southern province of Quneitra, a war monitor said Wednesday. The three were from the Syrian Resistance to Liberate the Golan, a group linked to the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, said...