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3/30/2026

The Syrian military announced on Monday that a large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle attack targeted multiple army installations situated near the border with Iraq, marking the most significant incursion of its kind since...

3/20/2026

Israel’s military has said it struck Syrian army camps overnight in response to what it claimed were attacks against the Druze community in the south of the country.

2/18/2026

On February 17 the Kurdish Rudaw media channel said that a UN delegation had “visited the Kurdish besieged town of Kobane in northern Syria on Monday to assess the humanitarian situation in the city and evaluate the cond...

2/12/2026

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and two of his senior cabinet ministers were the targets of five foiled assassination attempts by ISIL (ISIS) over the past year, according to a report by the United Nations.

2/6/2026

Lebanon and Syria signed an agreement Friday to transfer more than 300 Syrians from Lebanese prisons to continue serving their sentences in their home country, a step that will likely help improve strained relations betw...

2/2/2026

Syrian government security forces deployed into a Kurdish-controlled city in the northeast on Monday under a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal that foresees the Kurdish-run regions being merged with Damascus.

1/30/2026

Syria’s Kurds have signed a comprehensive deal to integrate their military and civilian institutions with President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government in Damascus, ending weeks of bitter fighting between the two sides.

1/29/2026

Syria’s Ministry of Interior has ordered the immediate implementation of a new decree granting citizenship to Kurdish minorities, as government forces continue to consolidate control of the country after a rapid offensiv...

1/26/2026

A ceasefire between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) appears to be largely holding, even as the two sides have accused each other of violating its terms.

1/23/2026

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday accused armed groups affiliated with Syria’s transitional government of repeatedly violating the ceasefire agreement, with Kobani emerging as one of the main targets of the...

1/20/2026

Tensions between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been escalating, days after they announced a ceasefire, which is being severely tested by renewed fighting, involving the wit...

1/15/2026

Syria’s military said it would open a corridor Thursday for civilians to evacuate an area of Aleppo province that has seen a military buildup following intense clashes between government and Kurdish-led forces in Aleppo...

1/15/2026

Anti-narcotics authorities in Syria and Iraq have seized 2.5 million captagon stimulant pills during coordinated security operations carried out in both countries, Syria’s Interior Ministry announced on Thursday.

1/14/2026

Early on Wednesday, the so-called SDF terrorist group targeted army positions and homes in the eastern part of Aleppo city, northern Syria.

1/13/2026

The Syrian army on Tuesday declared an area east of the northern city of Aleppo a “closed military zone,” potentially signaling another escalation between government forces and fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democr...

1/8/2026

Syrian authorities warned civilians to leave a contested area in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday and opened a corridor for them to evacuate for a second day as clashes continued between government and Kurdish for...

1/7/2026

The deadliest clashes so far broke out Tuesday between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in a contested area of the northern city of Aleppo, as efforts to merge the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces with t...

1/4/2026

Syrian government officials have held talks with the commander of the main Kurdish-led force in the country over plans to merge it with the national army, state media reported, adding that no “tangible results” had been...

12/17/2025

Syria’s government on Tuesday said its forces killed the leader of a cell linked to ISIS and arrested eight of its members believed to be behind a deadly attack on security personnel last week.

12/15/2025

A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid suspicions that he might b...

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