The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog has ordered a probe into the leak of an internal paper which queried the body's findings into a 2018 attack in the Syrian town of Douma. Syrian and Russian media had seized on the leaked document written by a member of the Hague-based...

Syria's parliament on Wednesday ratified a bill handing management of the country's largest port to a Russian firm for 49 years, state media said. A deal between Damascus and the Russian company Stroytransgaz for the management, expansion and operation of Tartus port was first signed in...

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Samer Foz, a Syrian industrialist behind high-end developments, including the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, for allegedly enriching President Bashar al-Assad. "This Syrian oligarch is directly supporting the murderous Assad regime and...

Gazing over his wheat field in northeastern Syria, farmer Adel Othman expects a bumper crop this year, but two rival authorities squabbling over his harvest have dashed his enthusiasm. After successive droughts and eight years of civil war, both the local Kurdish authorities and the...