More than 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from neighboring Lebanon this year following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a United Nations official told AFP. The Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011 with Assad’s brutal repression of anti-government...

Lebanon and Syria will form two committees to decide the fate of the nearly 2,000 Syrian prisoners held in Lebanese jails, locate Lebanese nationals missing in Syria for years and settle the shared unmarked border, judicial and security officials said. Monday’s announcement came as a...

Syria exported 600,000 barrels of heavy crude oil on Monday from the port of Tartus as part of a deal with a trading firm, a Syrian energy official told Reuters, the first known official export of Syrian oil in 14 years. Syria exported 380,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) in 2010, a year...

The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has declined to 2.5 million, according to official Turkish figures, amid expectations from Ankara of an increase in the rate of voluntary returns. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that the number of Syrian refugees residing in Turkey...