Russia's fighter jets conducted ten airstrikes on rebel pockets in northern Idlib province and parts of Kabana hilltops in coastal latakia province, local reporters said Wednesday. The fresh airstrikes have targeted the western countryside of Idlib city as well the Kaban hillops in the...

More than 40 members of UN staff and their families have caught coronavirus in Syria, a UN official told AFP Tuesday, warning the illness was spreading in the war-torn country. There were about 200 people including "staff and dependents, spouses, children, parents, who have displayed...

A so-called Akram AlSelti has been appointed as the new military chief of staff of the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian regime, replacing Major-General Mohamed Tareq AlKhadraa, who died of coronavirus last month. AlSelti served as deputy chief of staff. He...

 The Syrian authorities have arrested 500 beggars in Damascus, seeking to restrict the mounting number of people who took begging as profession, the Social Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. State-run Tishreen newspaper quoted the Director of Social Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Dumarani, as...