More than 4,360 people, including combatants and civilians, were killed in Syria’s civil war in 2023, in the thirteenth year since fighting began, a war monitor said on Sunday.The figure was an increase on 2022, when 3,825 people were killed.That was...

Air strikes in eastern Syria, "likely" carried out by Israel, killed at least 23 pro-Iran fighters Saturday, a war monitor said, reporting four more dead in the country's north.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "23 pro-Iranian fighters", i...

Although the demise of the Islamic State terrorist group was announced by the international coalition combating ISIS in March 2019, the terrorists’ threat of resurgence remains high, especially in Syria, politically and security-fragile countries, an...

At least 23 soldiers have been killed in war-torn Syria's east, a monitor said on Friday, the deadliest in a new wave of attacks blamed on Islamic State group jihadists.Despite losing their last piece of territory in Syria in 2019, IS has maintained...

A report released on July 10 by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, titled “No End in Sight: Torture and Ill-treatment in the Syrian Arab Republic 2020-2023”, documents human rights violations in Syrian detent...

The fate of delivering humanitarian aid to more than 4.8 million people in Northwest Syria is unknown after the UN Security Council failed on July 11 to adopt two resolutions of extending the cross-border aid delivery to the Syrian opposition from Tu...

The United Nations is concerned about "unacceptable conditions" set by Damascus for allowing aid to flow through its Bab al-Hawa crossing to rebel-held areas in northwest Syria, according to a document reviewed Friday by AFP.The delivery of humanitar...

Syria will let humanitarian aid flow through its main border crossing into rebel-held areas, reopening a conduit that had closed after a Security Council stalemate, the country's UN ambassador said Thursday.Damascus has made a "sovereign decision" to...

The current year is the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the fourth year of the 2020s decade. The first six months of 2023 were full of many special an...

In reality, there has been an Arabic struggle over Syria. It was silent, yet massive and controversial, as the Syrian file is considered to be the most diplomatically complicated file in the region. Regarding the proxy war, it was obvious, and a reason to extend the duration of the Syrian civil war.The latest unanimous Arab decision to restore the Syrian membership in the Arab League, a membership...

Arab leaders are to welcome Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the fold Friday at a summit in Saudi Arabia that is also expected to confront conflicts in Sudan and Yemen.Assad arrived in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Thursday for the...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus "in the near future", on the first such trip to Syria since the country's civil war began, Iran's foreign minister said on Friday.Syria's pro-government Al-Watan newspaper reported that Raisi would...