Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed efforts made to achieve peace in the war-torn country, according to a statement issued Tuesday after their meeting. The statement, carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), said the Kingdom hopes the...

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging, and death, and personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his own battle with pneumonia. On Monday, they reported good news: Francis was no longer in imminent danger of...

Syrian state media reported multiple Israeli airstrikes in the southern province of Daraa on Monday night. Since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria. “The Israeli occupation aircraft carried out several strikes...

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible, including his own allies if necessary. In his first interview to a global news...

The Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast, has signed a deal agreeing to integrate into Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday. The deal, which included a complete cessation of...

Denmark’s national broadcaster, DR, recently published a report titled " Syrian in Denmark: I had hoped things would get better after Assad – but it’s the opposite ." The article features testimonies from a number of Syrians, with a noticeable focus on voices from the Alawite community — a...

Iran on Monday rejected media reports accusing the Islamic Republic of involvement in the violence in Alawite areas of Syria, which has left hundreds of civilians dead. Fighting erupted on Thursday between Syria’s new security forces and loyalists of the former government of toppled...

The Syrian Defense Ministry announced on Monday the end of the military operation it launched to pursue the remnants of the Assad regime in the provinces of Latakia and Tartous, the official news agency reported. The ministry's spokesman, Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghany, said that the end of the...

The Syrian Ministry of Information warned on Sunday of systematic attempts by hostile parties aimed at creating chaos and destabilizing the country. The ministry confirmed in a statement that attempts had been monitored to circulate old photos and video clips on social media, some of which...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday condemned the “radical Islamist terrorists” behind “massacres” of minorities in Syria and demanded that the interim administration hold those responsible to account. “The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign...

A meeting between Türkiye, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria kicked off in Jordan's capital Amman on Sunday, bringing together foreign and defense ministers of the five countries, as well as their intelligence chiefs and military leaders. From Türkiye, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defense...

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has launched an investigation after hundreds of people were killed in fighting between security forces and fighters loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous. “We announce the formation of a fact-finding...

The head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday expressed concern over recent clashes between Syrian government forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad. The clashes are "directly impacting people’s health, as health facilities and ambulances have been damaged,"...

Israel’s defense ministry said on Sunday it would let Syrian Druze workers enter the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syrian territory, without saying when the government would start issuing permits. The Golan Heights is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of...

The Syrian Ministry of Interior cancelled today, Sunday, all travel ban notices issued by the ousted Assad regime, which included requests for arrest, review, notification, and failure to perform compulsory and reserve service. The ministry's statement indicated that these requests are...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa called for peace on Sunday after hundreds were killed in coastal areas in the worst communal violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. “We have to preserve national unity and domestic peace, we can live together,” al-Sharaa, the interim president, said as...

The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday the formation of an emergency committee to monitor violations in the coastal region, in coordination with the General Security Department, noting that the discovered violations will be referred to the military court. According to the...

The Syrian Defense Ministry and General Security Administration on Saturday regained control over most areas that had been destabilized in recent days by forces loyal to deposed former leader Bashar Assad, according to official media reports. “We have restored control over most areas that were...

The battles between Syria’s security forces and Alawite groups point to the chaos that still reigns in parts of Syria, according to Century International fellow Aron Lund. “The Syrian coast is a very fragile place, with sectarian hatred, a legacy of brutal conflict and weapons everywhere,”...

Syria on Saturday welcomed the decision by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to restore the country’s membership after the fall of the Bashar Assad regime. “This decision represents a vital step toward Syria's return to the regional and international communities as a free and just...