The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmad al-Sharaa, met on Sunday with a Norwegian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide in the capital Damascus, the official news agency reported. SANA indicated that the meeting brought together al-Sharaa and Foreign Minister...

Celebrations erupted across the world after the US, Egypt, and Qatar announced a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas to end more than 15 months of fighting in Gaza, in return for the release of hostages and gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the war-torn strip. The...

Syria’s new defense minister said on Sunday it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces. Speaking to Reuters at the Defense Ministry in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said the...

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar Al Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said ahead of a visit to the region. Between December 8 and January 16, some 195,200 Syrians returned home, according to figures published by Grandi on...