BEIRUT (AP) — The United Arab Emirates' top diplomat met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday, his second visit to Damascus as relations continue to thaw between the two countries. According to a statement from Assad's office, he and UAE's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin...

Syria’s political and armed opposition have urged their decade-long backer Turkey to reaffirm its support for their cause after the highest-level talks between Ankara and the Damascus governments since the Syrian war began in 2011. Turkey has provided support and a base for political...

On Tuesday, the government of the Syrian regime raised the price of a liter of gasoline, which is the second increase in three weeks, which comes amid a great shortage of oil derivatives. The Ministry of Internal Trade announced, on its Facebook page, that the selling price of a liter of...

Japan's permanent representative to the UN, Ishikane Kimihiro, said Tuesday the renewal of a resolution allowing cross-border aid in north-west Syria "is a matter of life or death for so many people." Kimihiro said there are "intense" discussions underway and that he is "hoping" and...

This year will, God permitting, be the year the Syrian civil war comes to an end. It has been 4,311 days, or 11 years, nine months and 18 days, since March 15, 2011, when the unrest in Syria and several other countries began as part of the Arab Spring protests. Governments had been toppled,...

Syria weakened its official exchange rate to 4,522 Syrian pounds to the dollar, a central bank statement said on Monday, while black market rates used for most economic activity sat around 6,500.  The official rate was previously set at 3,015.  An economic crisis in the...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s military fired missiles toward the international airport of Syria's capital early Monday, putting it out of service and killing two soldiers and wounding two others, the Syrian army said. The attack, which occurred shortly after midnight Sunday, was the second in seven...

The first high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian officials in Moscow last week was cordial but no deals have been made, multiple sources told Middle East Eye.  The Turkish and Syrian defence ministers, along with their Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, met on Thursday, elevating...

Zaman al-Wasl news site turns the page of the year 2022 with files that bring the Syrian regime to international courts.  Zaman al-Wasl spared no effort in exposing the crimes of the Assad regime against the Syrian people. In the year 2022, it exerted effort after effort, with the aim...

A militant rocket attack in eastern Syria on Friday targeted a bus with oil industry employees, killing at least 10, the government said. To the north, Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced they arrested 52 militants in an operation against ISIS sleeper cells. According to Syria’s petroleum...

A Palestinian refugee died under torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime, the Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria said.  It quoted one of those released in May 2022 as confirming the death of Fadi Omar Aziri, of the "Jdeidet Artouz" area in the countryside of Damascus, and...

The rain and wind storm that struck the northwestern regions of Syria during the past hours caused significant damage to the camps of northwestern Syria. Suffering doubled due to the fragile structure of the tent floors and the weak resistance of the tents by their cloth nature, especially...

:Britain urged Iran on Wednesday to stop detaining dual nationals following the arrest of seven people with links to the United Kingdom, saying the practice should not be used to obtain “diplomatic leverage.” Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrested the seven people over anti-government protests...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish, Syrian and Russian defense ministers have held previously unannounced talks in Moscow, the Turkish and Russian defense ministries said on Wednesday. It was the first ministerial level meeting between rivals Turkey and Syria since the start of the Syrian...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality in Latin America and elsewhere to reach the United States. Tuesday's ruling preserves a major Trump-era policy that was...

In its latest terror campaign against Syria, Israel bombed Damascus International Airport last week, killing two Syrians, after having also threatened to bomb Beirut International Airport earlier in the month.   Israel's recent bombing of the Syrian airport, however, is the...

Syrian Kurdish-led forces boosted security Tuesday a day after foiling a deadly ISIS group assault on a prison fearing that the extremists will strike again, a spokesman said.   Authorities on Monday declared a state of emergency in Raqa, the extremists’ former de facto capital...

BEIRUT: Six Syrian fighters from a pro-Turkish group died in clashes with regime troops that still raged Monday in northwest Syria, rebel forces and a war monitor said. A pro-Turkiye rebel statement said the six were killed and three more wounded in the offensive launched by government...

BEIRUT, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Six Kurdish-led security force members were killed in an Islamic State suicide attack on Monday on a security forces centre in Syria's Raqqa, the chief of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, wrote on Twitter.  

Jordan has seized one tonne of amphetamine pills being smuggled in date paste at the border with Iraq. A total of six million pills of the drug known as Captagon were found inside two refrigerated lorries. It was one of the largest such hauls ever intercepted, the Jordanian Customs...