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鈥檚 infrastructure.
French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six other top former officials over the bombardment of a rebel-held city in 2012 that killed two journalists, lawyers said Tuesday.
A Syria monitor said Friday that the death toll from sectarian violence in Sweida province in July has climbed to nearly 2,000, after dozens more bodies were identified.
Israeli forces conducted an overnight airborne raid on a site near the Syrian capital after bombing it several times, Syrian state media reported Thursday.
A Syrian official said Saturday that the selection process planned for a transitional parliament next month will be postponed in Druze-majority Sweida and two Kurdish-held provinces.
A panel of UN experts denounced Thursday what they described as an outbreak of massacres, sexual violence and kidnappings targeting the Druze minority in southern Syria in the past month.
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa has said the battle to unify his country after years of civil war 鈥榮hould not be with blood鈥�, rejecting any partition and accusing Israel of meddling in the south...
Hundreds demonstrated in Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday, denouncing last month鈥檚 sectarian violence and calling for the right to self-determination for the Druze-majority province, an AFP correspondent reported...
A UN commission聽investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria鈥檚 Alawite heartland documented systematic violence at the hands of government forces and allied groups,聽warning Thursday that some of the acts could constitute war crimes...
A Syrian government official said Saturday that authorities would not participate in planned talks in Paris on integrating the Kurdish semi-autonomous administration into the Syrian state and demanded future negotiations be held in Damascus.
Syria held a signing ceremony聽on Wednesday for agreements worth more than $14 billion, including investments in Damascus airport and other transport and real estate projects, state media reported.
Renewed sectarian clashes in southern Syria鈥檚 Druze-majority Sweida province killed at least four people on Sunday, a war monitor said, in the first deadly incident since a ceasefire last month...
Turkey on Saturday turned on a supply of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Syria, whose infrastructure was ravaged by civil war, with annual deliveries expected to reach up to two billion cubic metres...
Russia and Syria signalled Thursday they would bolster ties and review agreements made under the previous pro-Moscow government of Bashar al-Assad amid聽uncertainty over the future of two Russian military bases in the country.
French prosecutors said Monday they have requested a new arrest warrant against Syria鈥檚 former president Bashar al-Assad over a deadly 2013 chemical attacks after a previous one was cancelled.
A new humanitarian aid convoy reached southern Syria鈥檚 Druze heartland on Monday, official media said, as the United Nations warned the humanitarian situation in Sweida province was critical after deadly violence.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed major investment and partnership deals with Syria, valued at $6.4 billion, to help rebuild the war-ravaged country鈥檚 infrastructure, telecommunications and other major sectors...
Syria said on Tuesday that it had launched investigations into reported extrajudicial killings in the country鈥檚 Druze heartland, promising to punish perpetrators including any government-affiliated personnel after a week of sectarian bloodshed...
JUST weeks after a temporary pause in the Israel-Iran war through a fragile ceasefire, Israel has attacked Syria, under the pretence of protecting the Druze community. The Israeli attack denotes Israel鈥檚 ambition to expand and perpetuate its war in the Middle East...
A surge of violence in southern Syria has exacerbated fears among minority communities and exposed what analysts say is the Damascus authorities鈥� intent to rein in the Druze population...
Syrian authorities on Monday evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted a week of sectarian bloodshed that a monitor said killed more than 1,100 people...
Calm returned to southern Syria鈥檚 Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,000 people...
Smoke rose from burning houses in south Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday and an Arab tribal fighter vowed to 鈥榮laughter鈥� residents as deadly clashes with Druze fighters persisted...
Israel on Saturday dismissed a renewed pledge by Syria鈥檚 interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa to protect minorities after deadly sectarian clashes, saying it was 鈥榲ery dangerous鈥� to be a minority in the country...
Armed tribes supported by Syria鈥檚 Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community鈥檚 Sweida heartland on Friday, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.
Syrian troops pulled out of the Druze heartland province of Sweida Thursday on orders from the Islamist-led government, leaving bodies strewn on the street, AFP journalists reported from the provincial capital.
Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 300 people.
Israel launched strikes Tuesday against Syrian government forces in the Druze-majority region of Sweida, saying it was acting to protect the religious minority.
At least 89 people were killed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida as clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters raged for a second day Monday, a monitor said.
Azerbaijan will send its gas to Syria in a bid to address the country鈥檚 energy shortages, Baku said Saturday as president Ilham Aliyev hosted Syria鈥檚 new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa...