Bashar Assad attended a mosque in the country's west on Friday for prayers marking the end of Ramadan, in a rare appearance outside Damascus, images on his social media showed. "President Assad performs the Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Sayyida Khadija mosque in the city of Tartus," a...

 The global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday that the nerve agent sarin and toxic chemical chlorine were "very likely" used as weapons in two attacks in central Syria in late March 2017, the latest confirmation of chemical attacks in the civil war. The Organization for the...

The Syrian army has reinforced its anti-aircraft defenses near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a commander in the regional alliance that backs President Bashar Assad said Tuesday. Additional defenses are set to be deployed in the coming days, the commander told Reuters....

Daesh (ISIS) may have lost most of its territory in Syria but recent deadly attacks against pro-regime fighters are a foretaste of more to come, analysts say. Despite pro-government forces ousting Daesh from urban centers in eastern Syria last year, surprise raids there in past weeks have killed...