Syria welcomes the US Treasury Department’s decision to remove Syria’s name from sanctions lists imposed on it in the Code of Federal Laws, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. The ministry affirmed in a statement that the step “represents a positive development in the right direction,...

At the beginning of the revolution, the Mezzeh Military Airport prison in Damascus was the most prominent detention center, but there was no media coverage revealing what was happening inside. Detainees were dying by the dozens, and their bodies were left piled on top of each other until...

Members of the displaced tribes from Sweida Governorate accused Druze leader Hikmat al-Hajri of forming an "armed sectarian body" under the name "National Guard." They pointed out that it includes remnants of the former regime, officers implicated in the bloodshed of Syrians, drug dealers, and...

Civil and political activists from the northeastern province of Raqqa protested the decision of the Supreme Committee for People's Assembly Elections to postpone the elections in the province, citing the "lack of safe conditions." The protesters asserted that the decision violates...