In December 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the long-awaited Caesar Act to tighten the noose on the regime of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The sanctions were set to expire in December 2024, but Congress renewed them in a text agreed upon just hours before the fall of the Assad...

Syrian security forces arrested a top former intelligence officer suspected of numerous killings, including the 1977 murder of Lebanese opposition leader Kamal Jumblatt, the state news agency reported on Thursday. Forces seized Ibrahim Huweija, a former head of air force intelligence, one...

An Israeli airstrike on a car near Syria’s capital Damascus on Tuesday killed Salman Jumaa, a senior Hezbollah figure responsible for liaising with the Syrian army, a Lebanese security source told Reuters. Syria’s state news agency had reported the strike on the airport road but did...

The task command of the opposition forces said on Tuesday it has controlled more than 20 towns and villages in the northern and western countryside of Hama, northwest Syria. The Deterrence of Aggression Operation coincides with the continuation of battles and advances towards the city of...