Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani on Thursday held talks with visiting French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot at Tishreen Palace in Damascus on bilateral relations and political and economic cooperation. Both sides reaffirmed Syria’s unity, sovereignty, and territorial...

Damascus has begun a tangible, physical response to its profound monetary crisis: the systematic destruction of old banknotes collected during a recent currency exchange. This operation, supervised by financial oversight bodies and coordinated with the Central Bank of Syria, aims to "update the...

More than 200,000 students have returned to schools across Syria’s Raqqa province with the start of the second semester of the 2025–2026 academic year, local education authorities said on Tuesday. Raqqa’s Director of Education, Khalil al-Ibrahim, said during an inspection tour that...

Syrian government forces started entering the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Tuesday under an integration deal agreed with the Kurds last week, state media reported. The move comes after security personnel entered the mixed Kurdish-Arab city of Hasakeh and the countryside around the...