"If I had lived one more day, I would have been dead," Ali Issa al-Sabsi, known as number 499, describes his harrowing experience in the National Defense Forces' detention centers in Syria. Al-Sabsi was working as a fuel tanker driver in Quneitra governorate when he was arrested with nine...

Turkey is holding technical-level talks with Israel to ease tensions over Syria but is not moving toward normalizing ties, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday. Turkey is a key backer of the opposition-led coalition in Syria that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December after almost 14...

US President Donald Trump abruptly backed down Wednesday in his global trade war with a 90 day pause for most countries – but slapped even more levies against China in what has become a full-scale confrontation between the world’s two largest economies. “I have authorized a 90 day...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Sheibani announced on Tuesday the launch of a comprehensive process to restructure Syrian embassies and diplomatic missions abroad. The minister explained on his official Twitter account that this decision came in accordance with directives from President...