The Prime Minister of the caretaker government, Eng. Mohamed Al-Bashir, issued a decision to terminate the General Corporation for Foreign Trade, the official news Agency reported on Tuesday. The Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade will issue and take all decisions and procedures resulting...

The Palestinian militant movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldier hostages on Saturday, in return for some 200 Palestinian prisoners, in keeping with a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the 15-month-old war in Gaza. The four were led onto a podium in Gaza City amid a large...

Syria’s transitional government on Thursday condemned the killing of a photographer who had been working for state news agency SANA since before last month’s ouster of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad. “The information ministry condemns the assassination of photographer Ibrahim...

Flag carrier Turkish Airlines on Thursday landed its first Istanbul-Damascus flight since 2012, ending a 13-year hiatus that was due to Syria's civil war. Many Syrians voiced joy at returning to their homeland after years of exile. Some were seen carrying flags from December’s Syrian...