The British government on Tuesday removed “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS), the group which spearheaded the Syrian opposition alliance that helped oust president Bashar al-Assad, from its list of banned terrorist organizations. HTS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, was proscribed in 2017, meaning...

An official document issued by the Syrian Army Command in 1982 revealed an order to carry out a mass execution by firing squad and hanging for 21military personnel and civilians held in Tadmur (Palmyra) prison, after they were convicted of "membership in the armed wing of the Muslim...

The Anti-Narcotics Branch in Rural Damascus, in cooperation with the Internal Security Directorate in the Dhumair city, east of Damascus, seized 12 million Captagon pills and arrested the head of the smuggling network. The Ministry of Interior's Telegram channel quoted the Director of the...

October 20 marks the eighth anniversary of the so-called "Liberation of Raqqa," the military operation launched  by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2017 against Islamic State group. The operation, led by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), resulted in the...

The US special envoy for Syria on Monday called for the US House of Representatives to do its part to repeal sanctions on Syria dating back to the years of the Assad regime. “The U.S. Senate has already demonstrated foresight by voting to repeal the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act – a...

President Ahmad al-Sharaa received the credentials of the ambassadors of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ruben Kharazian, and the Italian Republic, to Syria, at the People's Palace on Monday. The credentials were presented in the presence of Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani....

At least 97 Palestinians have been killed and 230 injured by the Israeli army since a ceasefire took effect in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, including 21 breaches recorded Sunday, said the Gaza government. In a statement, the Gaza Government Media Office said the “Israeli occupation committed 80...

The Syrian Petroleum Company is currently facing a critical and pivotal phase, characterized by increasing administrative turmoil and a sharp decline in field monitoring and technical expertise. Despite the company's essential position as a pillar of the national economy, signs of internal...

Armed Druze factions and Arab tribes exchanged prisoners on Sunday in Syria’s southern Suwayda province, coordinated by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Damascus government. The exchange took place in the town of al-Mtoneh in the northern countryside of Suwayda, an Anadolu reporter said....

Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Sunday, bringing the total number handed over to 150, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every...

The Israeli military launched an attack on Gaza on Sunday, Israeli media reported, dimming hopes that a week-old US-mediated ceasefire would lead to lasting peace in the enclave as Israel traded blame with Palestinian militant group Hamas. An Israeli military official said on Sunday that...

Israeli forces carried out an incursion into Saida al-Hanout village in southern Quneitra countryside, the state-run news agency reported on Sunday. According to SANA reporter in Quneitra, a unit consisting of 11 military vehicles entered Saida al-Hanout and constructed a barrier at...

Zaman al-Wasl publishes the second batch of names of thousands of martyrs handed over to the burial office by al-Mujtahid (Damascus) Hospital between 2011 and 2013, after receiving most of them from the State Security Service in Damascus. These documents are being published for the first...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced on Saturday that he will make his first official visit to China in early November on an invitation extended by Beijing. “We have redefined our relationship with China, which had politically supported the former regime of Bashar al-Assad and...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were forbidden to leave their cabs. Mechanics and...

An Israeli strike on a construction vehicle in southern Lebanon killed a man, the Lebanese health ministry reported on Saturday. “The Israeli enemy’s airstrike on a vehicle in the town of Deir Kifa, in the Tyre district, resulted in one martyr,” the health ministry said in a statement....

Gaza ’s civil defense agency said that Israeli forces killed nine members of a single Palestinian family when they fired on a bus Friday, after the military confirmed it had targeted a vehicle that crossed the so-called “yellow line.” “Civil defense crews were able to recover nine bodies...

Hamas handed over to Israel the remains of one more hostage on Friday night, after insisting it was committed to returning all the dead captives still unaccounted for under Gaza’s ruins after two years of war. “Israel received, via the Red Cross, the coffin of a deceased hostage who was...

Syrian Minister of Economy and Industry Nidal al-Shaar discussed ways to enhance economic and technological cooperation between Syria and the United States, open new horizons for American investments in the Syrian market, and ease trade restrictions imposed on his country on Friday in...

A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of longtime Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, on bail after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, a judicial official said. After questioning Gaddafi, the judge ordered his release “on $11 million bail and...