Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria’s Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement or give a reason for Karfoul’s dismissal. Syria’s economy has been decimated by...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's foreign minister warned Tuesday that an attack on its main nuclear enrichment site at Natanz affects ongoing negotiations in Vienna over its tattered atomic deal with world powers. Mohammad Javad Zarif's remarks, alongside visiting Russian...

A 10-day curfew in areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in northeast Syria went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to try limit the spread of coronavirus in the region that borders Turkey and Iraq. Northeast Syria witnessed a sharp increase of coronavirus cases in recent weeks...

Three pro-Syrian regime militants were killed in an ambush by Daesh (ISIS) in the Badia desert in central Homs province, local sources said Monday. The ambush targeted the Palestinian Liwa al-Qusd militia near al-Sukhna town in the eastern countryside of Homs.   ...