A former Syrian intelligence officer on Monday denied beating and torturing detainees in prison as he faced trial in a German court for crimes against humanity.  In a written statement read by his lawyers, Anwar Raslan, 57, said he had "neither beaten nor tortured" prisoners at the...

The Syrian lira crashed to a new low on Monday, after a new video was released by business tycoon Rami Makhlouf over the weekend, in which he appeared to again challenge Bashar Al-Assad's regime. Makhlouf posted a third video on his Facebook account on Sunday, in which he continued his...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people, two brothers and a woman, were killed in an ambush by ISIS (Daesh) group in eastern Deir Ezzor province, activists said Sunday. The first brother was operating in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the second was a fighter in Usoud...

Sixteen people in Lebanon, mostly Syrians, have been arrested for money transfers and "illegal" currency exchange operations, the army said on Saturday, amid a government crackdown on exchange rate manipulation.  The army said in a statement that it had arrested 13 Syrians and three...