Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza, killing 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, and threatening a complete collapse of a two-month ceasefire as it vowed to use force to free its remaining hostages in the strip. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had...

Israel’s military said on Monday it was striking military sites in southern Syria, as the country’s health ministry reported three killed in an Israeli strike near the southern city of Daraa. “The IDF (military) is currently striking military targets in southern Syria, including command...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz announced that 145,639 Syrian refugees have returned to their country since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024. Yilmaz noted in a post on the X platform that the total number of Syrian returnees reached 885,642 people from 2017 to...

The EU led the way on pledging aid for Syria on Monday at a donor drive in Brussels – but the call for funding to help the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster risked falling short of last year as US support dries up. Western and regional powers are desperate to steer Syria onto...

Syrian troops exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers and armed groups in northeast Lebanon overnight and into Monday in a new round of clashes along the border. There have been frictions along the mountainous frontier in the months since opposition forces toppled Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, an...

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaya Kallas called for moving forward with lifting sanctions imposed on Syria since the ousted Assad regime. This came in a statement to reporters ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday. Kallas said...

Germany is pledging a further 300 million euros ($326 million) in aid for Syrians through the United Nations and select organizations, said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Monday, ahead of an EU-led donor conference in Brussels. More than half of the funds provided will benefit the...

Kurdish-led forces that control large swathes of northern Syria said nine people from the same family were killed Sunday night in a bombing it blamed on Turkey. “A Turkish occupation aircraft bombed a farming family south of Kobani in the late hours of Sunday night,” the Syrian Democratic...

Aid workers in the Palestinian territories told AFP they are concerned that rules recently floated by Israel could make already difficult humanitarian work “almost impossible”. Since Israel’s war on Gaza broke out on October 7, 2023, aid organizations have been contending with a “slippery...

The Iran-backed Houthis claimed on Monday to have twice attacked an American aircraft carrier group within 24 hours, calling it retaliation for deadly US strikes. The Houthis initially said they launched 18 missiles and a drone at the “aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying...

US President Donald Trump said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine, after positive talks between US and Russian officials in Moscow. “I’ll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the...

The German newspaper Bild revealed that German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is seeking to negotiate an agreement with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa to return hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees residing in Germany to their homeland. An official spokesperson for the...

Three members of the Syrian Ministry of Defense were killed on Sunday after being ambushed by Hezbollah loyalists near the border with Lebanon. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted the Ministry of Defense's media office as saying, "A group from the Hezbollah militia ambushed and...

Israeli military strikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday, as Arab and US mediators work to shore up a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian officials say dozens of people have been...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a phone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday, stressed the importance of joint cooperation between Turkey and the United States to lift sanctions imposed on Syria, with the aim of restoring stability and empowering the new Syrian...

Syrians often sarcastically repeat the phrase, "Has Syria become Afghanistan?" in reference to the exaggerations some make about the state of religious freedom in the country. However, with all due respect to the Afghan people and their experience, Syria differs greatly in terms of popular...

Dr. Hassan Hazouri, a professor of economics at the University of Aleppo, believes that the most prominent expected outcome of the Syrian government's agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is the resumption of oil and gas fields, which could gradually increase production to...

Iraqi security forces have seized more than a tonne of captagon tablets smuggled from Syria via Turkey, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Ministry spokesman General Moqdad Miri said the Narcotics Directorate “seized a truck from Syria, bound for Iraq, via Turkey, transporting 1.1 tonnes”...

The majority of Syrian embassy employees in Europe remain loyal to the fallen regime, amid growing accusations of supporting suspicious demonstrations in France, Germany, and the Netherlands against the new Syrian state. With the escalation of demonstrations and clashes among Syrians in a...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani affirmed on Saturday the Syrian government's commitment to continuing its efforts to enable the people to live in freedom and dignity throughout the country. This came in a post he published on the X platform on the occasion of the fourteenth...