Senior UN officials have warned that repeated Israeli attacks and violations on Syrian territory directly threaten the political transition the country has been undergoing since the fall of the former regime last December. This came during an emergency session convened by the UN Security...

South Korea and Syria have signed an agreement in Damascus establishing diplomatic relations, the South Korean foreign ministry said on Friday, opening new ties with a traditional ally of its rival North Korea. The event marks a milestone for South Korea now having established diplomatic...

The Syrian presidency on Thursday extended by three months the deadline for a national inquiry into the massacre of hundreds of members of the Alawite minority community of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 1,700 people, mainly Alawites,...

The Lebanese Army Command arrested three citizens on Thursday on charges of smuggling weapons and ammunition from Syria, as part of its ongoing operations to combat smuggling across the Lebanese-Syrian border. The Army explained in an official statement that an Intelligence Directorate...