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An Israeli strike in southwestern Syria killed at least six people as Israeli troops occupying the area clashed with local residents, Syria’s Foreign Ministry and a war monitor reported. Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said troops fired back at gunmen who attacked them, before launching...

More than 200 people, including women and children, have been killed in Syria in incidents involving war remnants in the three months since the fall of the Assad regime, as bomb disposal experts warn that “no area in Syria is safe”. The number of casualties has risen as approximately 1.2 million...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced. “The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and...

Israel said that it was willing to defend Syria's Druze community following days of violence in Syria that a war monitor said led to mass killings of another religious minority. The violence began last week between fighters linked to Syria's new government and forces loyal to ousted President Bashar...

Syria's defense ministry says it has completed a military operation in the country's western coastal region, after days of violence in which hundreds of people have been killed. Security forces had "neutralized" loyalists of former president Bashar al-Assad in several towns in Latakia and Tartous...

Syria’s interim government signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed force there into the Syrian army. The deal is a major breakthrough that would bring most of Syria under the control of the...

Israel has carried out air strikes near Syria’s Mediterranean port city of Tartous, Syrian state media has reported. An Israeli army statement said that its forces “struck a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored in the area of Qardaha”, the hometown of...

For more than 40 years, people in Hama spoke in whispers about the February 1982 massacre that then-President Hafez al-Assad unleashed on this city. Speaking about it could lead a Syrian to join the hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in al-Assad’s prisons. Now, Syria’s fourth-largest city...

Syria’s de facto leader reiterated his pledge to deliver a democratic political transition as talks on the country’s future opened. Ahmed al-Sharaa urged his countrymen to unite and pledged to establish a transitional justice body, as he welcomed participants of a national dialogue aimed at guiding...

The European Union has lifted select sanctions on Syria as part of an effort to support democratic development during the country’s political transition. The bloc announced that it had suspended restrictions on oil, gas, and electricity, along with sanctions on the transport sector including...