Syria’s interim foreign minister said in Baghdad on Friday his government was ready to “reinforce cooperation” with Iraq in the fight against remnants of ISIS. Asaad al-Shaibani’s visit to Syria’s neighbour coincided with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announcing...

Syria's interim foreign minister arrived in Iraq on Friday, conducting his first visit to the country since his Islamist alliance toppled Bashar al-Assad. Relations between neighbours Syria and Iraq have become more complicated since the fall of Assad, who was a close ally of the government...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, whose story inspired the 2022 Netflix film The Swimmers, returned to Syria ten years after she fled the civil war to Europe. While crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece in 2015, she not only survived but along with her sister...

In 2015, an investigative report by Zaman al-Wasl revealed one of the most dangerous deception operations carried out by the Syrian regime. It distributed more than 63,000 forged police ID cards to officers and members of its army and security services, with the aim of deceiving the Arab League...