Syrian authorities detained ex-security officer Rateb Fahd al-Hussein in Hama for alleged war crimes, as wider arrests of ...

In US-brokered talks, Syria and Israel discussed restoring a 1974 ceasefire to de-escalate tensions following the fall of ...

Syria seized 60kg of cannabis on the border with Lebanon late on Wednesday, as authorities seek to tackle drug smuggling. "The narcotics were going to be smuggled into Syrian territory at the Lebanese ...

New Islamist rulers are trying to destroy the drug empire that financed the former regime in Damascus. Can they succeed?

Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara on Wednesday approved a temporary electoral law before the first parliamentary election to be ...

A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing during more than ...

Next stage will be reopening the embassy and providing all consular services to the Syrian community in Libya,’ Syrian ...

The Assad government forcefully disappeared at least 3,700 children whose parents were disloyal to the regime. The figures ...

Decree sets 210-member People's Assembly, with two-thirds elected by electoral bodies formed in governorate constituencies ...

Syria’s commission for missing persons says between 120,000 and 300,000 people or more could be missing, since 1970, after ...

The 14 years under Assad’s authoritarian leadership has been brutal but now Syria is facing many other challenges, including ...

France's highest court has overturned an arrest warrant issued in 2023 for the former Syrian president. However, it found that he can now be prosecuted, as he is no longer in office.