Syria said Wednesday that there will be no humanitarian corridor across the border, stressing that the provision of humanitarian aid is exclusively coordinated via state institutions. “There will be no humanitarian corridor across the border,” the state news agency SANA said, citing a Syrian...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree Wednesday approving the temporary electoral system for the People’s Assembly (parliament) to elect two-thirds of its members.​​​​​​​ “President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Ahmed al-Sharaa, issued on Wednesday decree No. (143) of 2025,...

Syria's official news agency, SANA, launched its new vision on Wednesday at the National Center for Visual Arts in Damascus, the country's capital. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) made the launch in the presence of Yusuf Ozhan, deputy director general and editor-in-chief of Anadolu, as well...

Syria raised a flag over its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday, ahead of reopening the mission after a 13-year closure. “We are pleased to have been entrusted with raising the Syrian flag over the embassy in Tripoli after an absence of more than 13 years,” Mohammad al-Jaffal,...

At least 76 people, including several children, were killed in western Afghanistan when a passenger bus carrying repatriated migrants from Iran collided with a truck and a motorcycle, official media reported on Wednesday. After the collision, the bus also caught fire. The incident took place...

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has approved the military’s plan to seize Gaza City and authorized the call-up of about 60,000 reservists to carry it out, his ministry confirmed on Wednesday.

Helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the US-led International Coalition carried out an airdrop operation early Wednesday morning in the town of Atmeh in the northern countryside of Idlib Governorate, near the Syrian-Turkish border in northwestern Syria. Local sources told...

A group of young illegal Israeli settlers who are seizing Palestinian lands attempted to establish a new settlement unit in Quneitra governorate, located within the disengagement zone of the occupied Golan Heights. Videos posted on social media showed a group of the settlers crossing the...

US envoy Tom Barrack met Israeli Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Syria’s Sweida, where recent armed clashes left hundreds dead and heightened concerns over instability in the south. “Today I had a warm and informative meeting with Israeli...

Syria’s foreign minister met with an Israeli delegation in Paris for talks focused on de-escalation and non-interference in Syria’s internal affairs, Syria’s state news agency reported on Tuesday. The talks are being held under US mediation, according to SANA. The discussions also...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa received a US Congressional delegation, including members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in Damascus on Tuesday. The delegation included Senators Markwayne Mullen and Joni Ernst, and Representatives Jason Smith and Jimmy Panetta. The meeting...

Mediator Qatar said on Tuesday that a Gaza truce proposal given the green light by militant group Hamas was “almost identical” to an earlier version that Israel had agreed to. Hamas gave a “very positive response, and it truly was almost identical to what the Israeli side had previously...

One of Lebanon’s largest factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies in Iraq and Lebanon, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. The announcement late Monday came a month after the...

Members of the Syrian community in Istanbul filed a complaint with the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, expressing their dissatisfaction with the conditions inside the Consulate General and demanding urgent reforms to end the suffering of visitors. The Consulate General...

Two Syrian security personnel were killed by gunmen at a checkpoint in the northwestern city of Tartous. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted a security source as saying that after an Internal Security patrol became suspicious of a suspicious vehicle parked on the side of the road, the...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that the number of Syrian refugees returning to their country from neighboring countries since the fall of the former regime on December 8, 2024, until August 14, 2024, has reached 779,473. In its periodic report, the UNHCR...

Human rights activist Mansour al-Omari prepared a brief list of the crimes and violations committed by Hikmat al-Hajri's militias in Sweida Governorate, explaining that they may amount to "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" under international humanitarian law and international human...

Hamas has accepted the latest  proposal for a 60-day ceasefire with Israel  that includes the return of half the hostages the group holds in Gaza and Israel’s release of some Palestinian prisoners, an Egyptian official source said on Monday. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim wrote...

A senior Iranian official warned Monday that  war with Israel  could erupt at any moment, describing the current lull after June’s 12-day conflict as only a temporary halt. “We must be prepared at every moment for confrontation; right now, we are not even in a ceasefire...

A report published by the American magazine The National Interest by writer Ivar Jansen confirms that the path to safe return to Syria after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime remains fraught with obstacles. This is because the new Syrian government needs a plan supported by strong...