The CEO of the Syrian Petroleum Company, Youssef Qablawi, announced the commencement of the first comprehensive overhaul in the history of the Banias Oil Refinery. The current development plan aims to bring about a qualitative leap in the energy sector by increasing the facility's...

Damascus, Sep.7 (SANA) Damascus has witnessed a notable surge in diplomatic activity in recent days, with President Ahmad al-Sharaa receiving the credentials of seven ambassadors to the Syrian Arab Republic during official ceremonies at the People’s Palace in Damascus, attended by Foreign...

Tartous, Sept. 07 (SANA) The Internal Security Forces in Tartous province, in cooperation with the Anti-Terrorism Directorate, arrested former Major General Mohammad Ali Dirgham, a prominent military officer under the deposed regime, following a tracking operation. In a statement on Monday,...

  With the Ministry of Communications and Technology announcing its strategic direction to develop Syria's telecommunications and internet infrastructure through fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) projects, specifically the Idlib cable projects, along with strategic connectivity projects like...

Sweida, Sept. 7 (SANA) The Drug Enforcement Department at the Ministry of Interior foiled an attempt by outlaw groups to smuggle large quantities of narcotics toward Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the countryside of Sweida province using guided balloons. The security operation resulted in...

Damascus, Sept. 6 (SANA) More than 5.2 million students returned to classrooms across Syria on Sunday as the 2026-2027 academic year officially began, according to the Ministry of Education. Public and private schools, along with other educational institutions , opened their doors in...

Questions are mounting in the Syrian capital, Damascus, regarding the continued detention of dozens of money exchange office owners accused of operating without a license, particularly in the Damascus countryside. A protest is planned in front of the Ministry of Justice. Families of the...

Damascus, Sept. 6 (SANA) President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Sunday accepted the credentials of seven newly- appointed ambassadors to the Syrian Arab Republic during official ceremonies held at the People’s Palace in Damascus, in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad...

A source told Zaman al-Wasl that investigations by the Central Authority for Control and Inspection uncovered a large-scale financial corruption case within the General Tobacco Corporation. The case stemmed from irregularities in the procurement of cellulose acetate (a material used in...

Lebanon on Saturday raised the toll in Israeli strikes on the country’s south and east overnight to four killed, with Israel saying it was responding to an attempted Hezbollah attack. Lebanon’s health ministry reported four people killed including an 18-year-old woman, and 32 others...

Damascus, Sep. 5 (SANA) The International Criminal Police Organization ( Interpol ) has canceled an international alert issued in 2024 listing 24,511 Syrian passports as stolen, Director of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Interior Col. Abdul Rahim Jabara announced Saturday....

Idlib, Sept. 4 (SANA) A convoy carrying 308 displaced families left camps in Idlib on Thursday to return to their villages and towns across five Syrian provinces, as efforts continue to help families displaced by the deposed regime return to their areas of origin. The families are returning...

New York, Sept. 4 (SANA) UN officials and Security Council members welcomed Syria’s growing cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ), citing significant progress toward eliminating the remnants of the chemical weapons program developed under the...

Syria has begun destroying chemical weapon materials identified by an international watchdog, the country’s UN envoy said Thursday, signaling a major step forward since the 2024 ouster of Bashar al-Al-Assad. “This is the very first destruction process since we have been liberated from the...

Quneitra (SANA) Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells toward the vicinity of eastern Tal al-Ahmar in the southern Quneitra countryside on Thursday.  SANA’s reporter in Quneitra said that the occupation forces fired two artillery shells toward the area, with no injuries...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed US campaign against Iran would not continue for “too long” after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was trying to build a rocket that drops mines...

Damascus, Sept. 2 (SANA) President Ahmad al-Sharaa and his wife, Latifa al-Droubi , met families of missing persons at the People’s Palace in Damascus, in the presence of Mohammad Reda Jalkhi, head of the National Commission for Missing Persons . Al-Sharaa and al-Droubi listened to the...

Damascus, Sep.2 (SANA) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met Wednesday with a delegation from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, headed by State Secretary Niels Annen, to discuss ways to strengthen economic and development...

Lebanon has arrested a former Syrian colonel and several accomplices who allegedly planned attacks against the forces of Syria’s new government, a judicial official told AFP on Wednesday. The alleged leader of the network is a former Syrian army major general who is close to longtime ruler...

The CEO of the Syrian Petroleum Company, Engineer Youssef Qablawi, inaugurated the operation of an early gas production and processing unit at the Al-Tabiyah/Conoco field in Deir ez-Zor on Tuesday, following the completion of its rehabilitation by the company's engineers and technicians in...