Syria strongly condemned a series of Israeli airstrikes Monday targeting several areas of the county, describing the attacks as a “blatant violation of international law and the principles of the UN Charter.” Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on the outskirts of the cities of Homs, Lataki...

Syria’s Interior Ministry on Sunday dismissed reports circulating online that Christians in the western town of Qusayr in Homs province were being singled out in a wave of arrests and forced displacement.   Ministry spokesman Nour al-Din Baba said the allegations, shared by what he...

Syrian and Saudi officials met Sunday in Damascus and Riyadh for separate rounds of talks that underscored growing partnership between the two countries across humanitarian, development and agricultural fields.  In the Syrian capital, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani welcomed a Saudi...

Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in Syria on Monday in the latest violations of the country’s sovereignty, local media reported. An Israeli strike targeted the outskirts of the western city of Homs, said the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Another strike hit the outskirts...

Spain recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv on Monday after the Israeli government accused Madrid of antisemitism and barred two Spanish ministers from entering Israel. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares recalled the envoy “in the face of slanderous accusations and unacceptable measures...

At least five people were killed and five others injured in a wave of Israeli airstrikes in eastern Lebanon on Monday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire deal in place since November 2024, the Health Ministry said. Lebanese media said that Israeli warplanes launched at least eight...

Two gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as “a terrorist attack,” one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years. Footage from a dashboard camera at the scene in Ramot Junction showed people fleeing...

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday humanitarian projects for Syria including the removal of wartime rubble around Damascus, weeks after inking investment deals worth billions to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure. At an event Sunday in Damascus, the Kingdom’s King Salman Humanitarian...

The Voice of Hind Rajab, recounting the final moments of a five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza City last year, won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The movie by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania is a true-life drama about the...

The departure from Tunisia of pro-Palestinian activists seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with aid boats has been postponed, organizers said on Saturday. It was planned for Sunday, but organizers said they rescheduled the boats’ departure from Tunis to Wednesday, September...

At least 64,368 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. A ministry statement said that 68 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 362 people were injured, taking the number of...

Minister of Finance Mohammad Yoser Barnieh announced the formation of an advisory committee to study the reality and status of non-performing loans at government banks and to work on presenting practical and legal proposals to address these loan cases. This committee will preserve the rights of...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said that reactivating the Iraq-Syria export pipeline, which was discussed with Syria weeks ago, contributes to diversifying Iraq's export outlet options while providing flexibility in crude oil transportation capacity. Al-Sudani's statement came...

The Syrian pound's exchange rate against the dollar declined on the local black market during trading on Saturday. On Saturday evening, the Damascus dollar ranged between 11,100 Syrian pounds for buying and 11,200 Syrian pounds for selling. The dollar recorded the same or similar rates,...

There will no longer be any need to deploy foreign troops in Ukraine once a peace agreement is signed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Commenting on Thursday's meeting in Paris of the “coalition of the willing” — a group of countries providing military support to Ukraine and...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed support for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, condemning repeated Israeli attacks during a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani. The meeting took place on the sidelines of Thursday's 164th session of the Arab...

The Lebanese government is set to discuss on Friday an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, which the Iran-backed group opposes, accusing the cabinet of playing into the hands of Israel and the United States. In August, under heavy US pressure and fearing Israel would intensify its strikes,...

Damascus, SANA- In the presence of President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, activities of the Syrian Development Fund were launched on Thursday at Damascus Citadel. Director General of Syrian Development Fund, Mohammad Safwat Raslan, said in a speech at the beginning of the launching ceremony that...

A Syrian security official said a drone strike near Aleppo airport on Thursday killed two people, with state media reporting the attack but without saying who may be behind it. An AFP correspondent saw a vaporized car near the airport in Syria’s north, with shrapnel scattered around it....

One of the European Union’s most senior officials on Thursday called the war in Gaza a “genocide,” ramping up criticism of Israel and slamming the 27-nation bloc for failing to act to stop it. “The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe’s failure to act and speak with one voice,” European...