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Syria will elect a new People’s Assembly on October 5, the first parliament to be chosen since the fall of Bashar al-Assad late last year. The announcement comes as the new government seeks to rebuild state institutions and gain legitimacy amid regional and international efforts to stabilize the war...

A French court has issued arrest warrants for seven former top Syrian officials, including ex-President Bashar al-Assad, for the bombing of a press center in Homs, a judicial source and a human rights organization said. A rocket hit the “informal press center” on February 22, 2012, killing renowned...

Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced a renewed ceasefire Wednesday after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country’s postwar political transition and drawn military intervention by powerful neighbor Israel. Convoys of government forces...

A Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in his home country—including murder and torture—by a German court. The 40-year-old man, Alaa Mousa, worked as a junior doctor in an army hospital and a military intelligence prison in Homs and Damascus in Syria, in...

Syria will set up commissions for justice and missing persons tasked with probing crimes committed during the rule of the Assad family, compensating victims, and finding thousands of people whose whereabouts remain unknown, the presidency said. Syria's grinding 13-year civil war has left hundreds of...

President Donald Trump said he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with Syria's Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Trump is set to say hello to Sharaain Saudi Arabia, a White House...

Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) Robert Petit, leading a delegation from the Independent International Impartial Mechanism (IIIM), concluded a series of high-level meetings during his second visit to Damascus, including a meeting with the Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shaibani and officials from the...

The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work with Kurdish allies to counter the Islamic State group, a U.S. official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet announced publicly. The U.S. troops have been critical not...

Israeli strikes in Syria reportedly killed at least nine people in the southwest of the country, as Israel accused Turkey of trying to build a “protectorate” in Syria. Syrian state news agency SANA said that those who died in the strikes were civilians, without giving details. Britain-based war...

Lebanon and Syria have signed an agreement on border demarcation and to boost coordination between the two countries regarding security along their tense frontier, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The deal signed by the Lebanese and Syrian defense ministers in Saudi Arabia came after clashes in...