An apparent spat in the once tight-knit family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deepened overnight Thursday when his tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf made a rare direct appeal for help on Facebook over an order to seize his assets and impose fines. Mr Makhlouf, Mr Assad’s maternal cousin...

The Syrian state media reported Friday Israeli air strikes in the Golan Heights and later blasts at an ammunition depot east of the city of Homs. While the Syrian army said the series of blasts at the ammunition depot east of Homs city led to casualties, it stated the incident was not...

Syrian state media reported on Friday that Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria in what Western intelligence sources have described as an increase in strikes against Iranian-backed militias this year. The...

The U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday that More than 40 cases of COVID-19 and at least three deaths have been reported in Syria., signaling that "tragedy beckons" after nine years of war that has left the country’s health care system decimated. Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security...