Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. The crush “during a civilian event at the mosque... resulted in the death of three people,” Governor Maher Marwan told SANA. The White...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that his country is ready to enhance economic cooperation with Syria and build "strategic partnerships", stressing that Rome will play its role in lifting the sanctions imposed on the ousted regime. This came in a speech during a press...

Turkey has no intention of taking over any part of Syria following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday. “Turkey has no eye on any part of Syrian territory,” he said at a news conference in Istanbul as fears grow over Ankara’s threats...

A secret garage containing 8,000 cars was found, confiscated by the Assad regime after their owners were arrested over the years of the Syrian revolution. The cars that Zaman al-Wasl's camera monitored bore Syrian, Saudi, Lebanese, Iraqi and European license plates. The place also included...