Pope Francis spent Saturday night calmly after a bronchospasm crisis and related deterioration of his breathing he did not experience another crisis and his condition is stabilizing, according to the Vatican. The Vatican issued a statement late Saturday about the condition of the 88-year-old...

Palestinian militant group Hamas told AFP Sunday it insists on the implementation of a second ceasefire phase after Israel endorsed a temporary extension of the initial phase. “The only way to achieve stability in the region and the return of the prisoners is to complete the implementation...

The Syrian Minister of Internal Trade said that the merchant had a special role and status as a representative of his country abroad, referring to the role of merchants, industrialists and economic activities in spreading Islam throughout history. Maher Khalil Hassan considered in a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the country's military to “prepare to defend” the Druze inhabitants of Jaramana city near Syria’s capital Damascus. This came in a new escalation by Netanyahu's government against the new administration in Syria, which is demanding an end...

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey, following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, asking the group to disband. It was the first reaction from the PKK after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of his Kurdistan Workers’ Party...

Hamas’s armed wing on Saturday released footage showing what appeared to be several Israeli hostages in Gaza, as the first phase of a fragile ceasefire neared its expiry amid uncertainty over the next steps. The video released by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which AFP was unable to...

The US Army said Saturday it had killed a top military leader of Hurras al-Din, a Syrian branch of al-Qaeda which announced its dissolution in January. The US Central Command (CENTCOM), in charge of American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement that its forces on February 23...

Hamas said on Saturday that it rejected Israel’s “formulation” of extending the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, on the day the first stage of the deal was set to expire. The group’s spokesperson Hazem Qassem also told Al-Araby TV there were no current talks for a second ceasefire...

Ordinary Ukrainians were dumbfounded by Friday’s raised-voice confrontation between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the White House. “I just don’t even have the words,” said 32-year-old Roman Shkanov, an office worker. “For such a strong country to...

The US State Department this week terminated a USAID initiative that invested hundreds of millions to restore Ukraine’s energy grid from Russian attacks, according to a report. Overnight power outages have occurred in parts of Ukraine following attacks on energy infrastructure, NBC News...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Friday voiced support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his fiery clash at the White House, warning that a cease-fire without security guarantees would open the door to further Russian expansion across Europe. Zelenskyy got into a heated war of...

The US on Friday announced the approval of the sale of more than $3 billion in munitions, bulldozers and related equipment to Israel, which used American-made weapons to devastating effect in densely populated Gaza. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed off on the sales of $2.04 billion...

Several villages and towns in the southern province of Daraa witnessed mass demonstrations on Friday condemning the recent Israeli statements and the incursion of the occupation forces into areas near the buffer zone on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. These popular movements come in...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday said that Moscow and Washington have agreed on steps to remove obstacles to financing their embassies. Commenting on the outcome of Thursday’s talks in Istanbul, a ministry statement said that "discussions were conducted in a meaningful and businesslike...

The Israeli army has claimed it killed Mohammad Mahdi Ali Shaheen, a Hezbollah leader, in a Thursday airstrike in the eastern Lebanese region of Hermel. In a Friday statement, the Israeli army said that the airstrike had targeted the Bekaa Valley. “Shaheen, a key Hezbollah figure, was involved...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture, or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to be published Thursday tracing the deaths to seven suspected grave sites. In the report,...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday there were “pretty good talks going on” regarding Gaza, when asked about the future of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, but he offered little detail at a White House press conference. A three-phase ceasefire in Gaza went into effect...

The challenge of providing oil derivatives to generate electricity, and securing energy carriers for workshops and factories in order to move the wheel of production that has stopped in the country, represents the most prominent challenges facing the Syrian state with its new administration....

The Minister of Justice issued a decision to appoint judges of the Court of Cassation for the year 2025, most of whom are known for their integrity. However, during the audit, the following became clear: - Appointing Counselor Ahmed Fahim Khalil as a member of the Seventh Civil Chamber,...

In early 2012, with the beginnings of the Syrian revolution, Judge Tariq Barinjki was the head of the Ninth Civil Court of First Instance in Damascus. At that time, he issued a bold decision against a member of the Criminal Security who violated the human rights of a detainee and tortured him...