Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Damascus on Monday for talks with President Bashar al-Assad and Syria’s foreign minister, the RIA news agency reported. Russia is a close ally of Assad.

More than 200 United Nations staff members have contracted Covid-19 in Syria, as the global body stepped up its contingency plans to combat the fast spread of the pandemic in the country, medical workers and UN officials have said. The UN's resident coordinator and humanitarian...

Presumed Israeli air strikes on eastern Syria killed 16 Iran-backed fighters Thursday, a war monitor said, hours after Damascus said it intercepted Israeli missiles fired at a central air base. Those killed were "Iraqi paramilitary fighters loyal to Iran, seven of whom were killed outside...

They arrived in unprecedented numbers, pushing a strained Sweden to shut its borders as anti-immigration sentiment flared. Five years later, Syrians are still trying to integrate, some more successfully than others. Abdallah Saleh, a 24-year-old Palestinian who fled Damascus in 2014,...