SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...

Syria has begun restructuring its embassies and diplomatic missions abroad, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said on Tuesday. “Under the directives of President Ahmad al-Sharaa, we have begun ...

FOR WEEKS Turkish army officials had been travelling to air bases across Syria, and hashing out plans to equip at least some of them with air-defence systems and armed drones. Preparations for ...

Senior Writer, Foreign Policy & Deputy Editor, National Security and Foreign Policy The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have marked a major blow to the Iran-aligned Axis of ...

Israel has attacked several locations across Syria, a move condemned by Damascus as a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty. Israel Katz, the Israeli defence minister, said the attacks ...

Syrian Kurdish families, displaced from their homes in the historically Kurdish-majority Afrin region during a 2018 offensive by Turkey, return to their villages in December. — Rami al SAYED ...

Damascus, SANA-The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassies in Syria and Lebanon, organized a workshop Monday to discuss the needs of the health sector in Syria, the ...

Washington is facing a moment of rare strategic clarity in Syria, a country long synonymous with unending war and geopolitical entanglement. A fragile interim government in Syria is struggling for ...

Turkey and Israel have held talks over the establishment of a deconfliction line in Syria to avoid any misunderstandings and prevent potential clashes between their militaries, two western ...

Turkey scoped out at least three air bases in Syria where it could deploy forces as part of a planned joint defence pact before Israel hit the sites with air strikes this week, four people ...

FOR WEEKS Turkish army officials had been travelling to Syrian air bases, and hashing out plans to equip some with air-defence systems and armed drones. Preparations for Turkey’s takeover of the ...

On Wednesday 2 April, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out coordinated air strikes against military installations in the Syrian capital Damascus, Hama and Homs. The strikes included the ...