Three civilians were killed and three wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying. The Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building in the Mezzah suburb in western Damascus, the source...

Syrian air defenses intercepted “hostile targets” over the vicinity of Damascus, following an explosion that was heard in the capital, state media said early on Tuesday. SANA, Syria's state news agency, on Sunday reported a blast that was heard in the same vicinity. At the time, SANA...

Blasts were heard in the vicinity of Syrian capital Damascus, state news agency SANA reported on Sunday, adding that an investigation was being conducted to establish the cause.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked to meet Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of UN talks in New York next week to normalize ties. Turkey and Syria severed diplomatic relations in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian war, but Erdogan has sought...