Syria on Thursday reopened Damascus airport for regular international commercial traffic after a six-month halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had imposed strict health measures inside the facility. Airport officials said national flag carrier Syrian Airlines would initially...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19 and were going into quarantine, upending the race for the White House. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” the...

The US has repatriated and charged the last four Americans suspected of being Daesh members from northern Syria, the state Justice Department said in a statement yesterday. The four US citizens were among an estimated 2,000 prisoners from dozens of countries imprisoned in northern Syria...

On September 30, 2015, the Russian Federation formally entered the Syrian civil war as President Bashar al-Assad’s rule was increasingly under threat. Since 2011, intense fighting and mass desertion had weakened the Syrian Arab Army. Even the support of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...