In a Damascus suburb, the head of Syria's tiny Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba synagogue for the first time in 15 years.

Experts said the chaos could jeopardise prosecutions of members of the Assad regime, and make it harder for families to track down the missing. As many as 100,000 Syrians disappeared during the ...

WHILE much of the focus in terms of foreign stories in 2025 will stem from Trump, and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, other major events should also be on our radar. Among other more ...

President Vladimir Putin further cemented his grip on power and sought to counter Russia’s isolation from the West over the ...

KOCHI: When news broke on December 8 on the sudden collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, even veteran West Asian ...

Military forces of Syria's interim administration have begun deploying attack helicopters against what it described as remna ...

Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities handed over dozens of Syrian nationals, including former officers in the army, to the new administration in Damascus after they were caught illegally entering Lebanon.

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the ...

According to five Lebanese officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, Rasha Hazem, wife of Duraid Assad, and their ...

Observers said more than 100,000 died in prisons and detention centres during the civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the ...

A delegation from Turkey’s energy ministry headed to Syria on Saturday to help Syrians obtain access to essential services ...