The European Union will suspend sanctions on Syria's banking, energy and transport sectors Monday, diplomats said, in a bid to help the country's reconstruction after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. Syria's new leaders have been clamouring for the West to ease sanctions on the country imposed...

At least 125 Syrian detainees in Roumieh prison in Lebanon continue their hunger strike for the eleventh consecutive day, in protest against the delay in implementing the announced agreement between the Syrian and Lebanese governments regarding the return of detainees. According to sources...

The Arab head of the UN Development Program (UNDP) on Thursday described the 14-year civil war in Syria as one of the "deadliest conflicts in recent history," with “90% of the population” in poverty.” "So far, what has been reported is 618,000," lives lost in the conflict, Abdallah Al...

The French public prosecutor's office has reopened the case of the killing of American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Rémi Ochlik in a bombing in Syria that took place 13 years ago. The AFP quoted the French anti-terrorism prosecutor's office as saying on Tuesday that...