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A United Nations Security Council delegation arrived in Syria on Thursday and met with President Ahmed al-Sharaa, state media reported, in the first-ever visit to the country just days before the anniversary of the ousti...

Syria’s new security forces have reached a significant milestone in their operations against extremists, now working openly with the US Central Command against ISIS. Although this is not their first cooperation with the...

Casualties were reported on Friday morning after Israeli air strikes hit the town of Beit Jinn in the countryside of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Demonstrations and sit-ins took place on Tuesday in several areas of the Tartus and Latakia governorates, as well as in parts of Homs and Hama, calling for decentralisation and the release of detainees, amid a heavy depl...

The southern neighborhoods of Homs are witnessing a heavy security presence as a curfew begins this evening. The measures aim to contain tensions following a murder that occurred earlier in the day in the town of Zaidal,...

The Syrian Arab Republic has removed the travel bans of nearly 5 million people imposed during the authoritarian rule of the Bashar Assad regime.

Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader's plans to join a U.S.-led coalition to fight the militant...

The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to lift sanctions on Ahmad Al-Sharaa, effectively removing the Syrian president from the Daesh and Al-Qaeda Sanctions List in a move widely seen as signaling international recogn...

In his workshop near the Syrian capital, Ghassan Aama is at a loss following a recent decision to massively hike electricity prices, even as much of the country continues to face extensive outages.

Gunmen killed at least two people when they opened fire on a coach along the road between Damascus and Druze-majority Sweida in southern Syria on Tuesday, state media reported, months after deadly sectarian clashes in th...

A bomb exploded Thursday on a Syrian Defense Ministry bus in the country’s east, killing and wounding several soldiers, state TV reported.

Israeli forces crossed into two areas in the Quneitra countryside in Syria on Wednesday before withdrawing, according to Syria’s state news agency SANA.

Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a “preliminary agreement” with Damascus on the integration of his troops into Syria’s military and security forces.

Syria announced a comprehensive ceasefire with Kurdish forces after a meeting on Tuesday between Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi that followed deadly clashes in the northern city of Alepp...

Syria on Monday published preliminary results of its indirect vote for the first parliament since Bashar al-Assad's historic toppling last year, with election officials acknowledging a low success rate for women and reli...

Local committees in Syria cast their ballots for members of a transitional parliament, with a third of the new lawmakers to be appointed directly by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa.

Syria is set to hold parliamentary elections on Sunday for the first time since the fall of the country’s longtime autocratic leader, Bashar Assad, who was unseated in a rebel offensive in December.

Syria is preparing to establish the first parliament since Bashar Assad was toppled, a milestone in the transition from his rule but one that has stirred new concerns about political inclusivity under President Ahmed Al-...

Syria is set to hold the selection process for a transitional parliament on October 5, in accordance with a constitutional declaration announced earlier this year, the electoral commission said Sunday.

The worst drought in decades is gripping much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, drying out rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and leading to dayslong tap water cutoffs in major cities.