A document issued by the Damascus Endowments Directorate on February 2, 2025, revealed the complete dismissal of Sheikh Muhammad Yusuf Khorshid, imam and preacher of Al-Huda Mosque in the Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus, from his religious duties and the banning of him from holding or...

Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Operations at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), announced that the program is facing a severe funding shortage in Syria. He called on the international community to ease sanctions on the country and invest in programs that achieve...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Shara expressed his happiness to participate in the fourth Antalya Diplomatic Forum, held under the theme "Adhering to Diplomacy in a Divided World." He emphasized that the Syrian Arab Republic's participation stems from its deep belief that dialogue and diplomacy are...

The United States and Iran begin high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Muscat on Saturday, with President Donald Trump threatening military action should they fail to produce a new deal. These will be the highest-level discussions between the foes since an international agreement...

Between 2012 and 2014, the National Defense Militia in Damascus, led by Fadi Saqr, arrested dozens of children on charges of financing terrorism. The goal was to blackmail their families. The wealthy were exploited and forced to pay ransoms, while the children of the poor were tortured and...

The Syrian community in Iraq mourned the death of Fajr Imad al-Quntar, 21, who passed away on Friday afternoon in the Diyala region, northeast of the capital, Baghdad, just hours before he was scheduled to return to Syria. The local Suwayda 24 website quoted a source close to the deceased's...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Turkey will continue its diplomatic efforts to lift international sanctions against Syria, Erdogan’s office said. During their meeting at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, Erdogan said efforts should be...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Israel of sowing divisions in Syria in a bid to “dynamite” the “revolution” that toppled Bashar al-Assad. Turkey is a key backer of Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa whose group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led the opposition coalition...

After months of deafening government silence, Zaman al-Wasl publishes video files documenting and revealing shocking details about the fate of hundreds of innocent children, sons and daughters of political detainees in Syria. These documents, which we present today to the Syrian public in...

A security source in the southern province of Daraa confirmed Thursday that reports of a coup against the Ministry of Defense are completely false. The source explained to Al-Watan newspaper this evening that the incident in the city of Busra al-Sham resulted from a previous dispute between...

Senior UN officials have warned that repeated Israeli attacks and violations on Syrian territory directly threaten the political transition the country has been undergoing since the fall of the former regime last December. This came during an emergency session convened by the UN Security...

South Korea and Syria have signed an agreement in Damascus establishing diplomatic relations, the South Korean foreign ministry said on Friday, opening new ties with a traditional ally of its rival North Korea. The event marks a milestone for South Korea now having established diplomatic...

The Syrian presidency on Thursday extended by three months the deadline for a national inquiry into the massacre of hundreds of members of the Alawite minority community of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 1,700 people, mainly Alawites,...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling down on a decentralized vision opposed by the president. The demand for federal rule has gathered momentum as alarm...

The Lebanese Army Command arrested three citizens on Thursday on charges of smuggling weapons and ammunition from Syria, as part of its ongoing operations to combat smuggling across the Lebanese-Syrian border. The Army explained in an official statement that an Intelligence Directorate...

Iran could expel UN atomic watchdog inspectors or transfer enriched material to undisclosed locations if it faces military attack or continued external threats, an advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on X on Thursday after US President Donald Trump threatened military force if Tehran...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Thursday it is ready to enter into talks with the Lebanese government on a national defense strategy.

A document dated August 17, 2016, revealed details of an expanded security and military meeting held in the office of the then-Security Officer of the Republican Guard, Brigadier General Qais al-Farawi. The meeting aimed to develop a mechanism and operational plan for the siege of the towns...

"If I had lived one more day, I would have been dead," Ali Issa al-Sabsi, known as number 499, describes his harrowing experience in the National Defense Forces' detention centers in Syria. Al-Sabsi was working as a fuel tanker driver in Quneitra governorate when he was arrested with nine...

Turkish and Israeli officials began talks on Wednesday aimed at preventing unwanted incidents in Syria, where militaries of the two regional powers are active, Turkish ministry sources and an Israeli political source said on Thursday. The Turkish sources said the technical talks, in...