Syria is expected to hold its first parliamentary election under the new administration in September, the head of the electoral commission told state news agency SANA on Sunday. Voting for the 210-member People’s Assembly is scheduled to take place between September 15 and 20, said...

The Syrian government on Monday started evacuating Bedouin families trapped inside the city of Sweida, where Druze and Bedouin fighters have clashed for over a week. The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed hundreds and threatened to...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine warned that families in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic hunger, denouncing Israel's use of starvation as a "weapon of war" against the Palestinian enclave. The office said in a post on the X...

Residents reported calm in Syria’s Sweida on Sunday after the Syrian government announced that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city and a US envoy signaled that a deal to end days of fighting was being implemented. With hundreds reported killed, the Sweida...