Syrian authorities said on Thursday that they had killed a senior leader of the Islamic State group in coordination with the US-led coalition, hours after arresting another leader near Damascus.
Syrian authorities have captured a senior Islamic State group militant in the Damascus region in a joint operation with a US-led international coalition, a security official claimed on Wednesday.
Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and held discussions on expanding “strategic cooperation in the military industries sector”, Syrian state media reported.
At least two people were killed after clashes broke out between the Syrian army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo ahead of a looming deadline to integrate Kurds into Syria’s state institutions.
Israeli soldiers have advanced into the Quneitra area of Syria’s occupied Golan Heights and set up two military checkpoints, according to a report by Al Jazeera.
The Pentagon has released combat footage showing US and allied forces carrying out large-scale strikes against purported Daesh terrorist targets in Syria, as part of Washington’s retaliation for the recent killing of American personnel.
The US Congress has permanently ended sanctions imposed on Syria under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, paving the way for the return of investment to the war-ravaged nation.
A mass grave has been found inside a former government security building in the south of Idlib Governorate, according to the Syrian state media outlet SANA.
The United States House of Representatives has voted forward a bill that would nix the restrictive Caesar Act sanctions on Syria, originally imposed during the rule of former leader Bashar al-Assad.
The head of the US military’s Middle East-based Central Command, Brad Cooper, has said that the United States is working with Syrian forces to carry out operations against Daesh, highlighting the collaboration between Washington and Damascus.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, marking the first anniversary of the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, said the organization remains “fully committed to working with Syrians to ensure the transition is successful.”
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has accused Israel of "exporting crises" to other countries as a way to divert attention from the "horrifying massacres" it is committing in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Canada has removed Syria from its list of states that support “terrorism”, citing a similar move by the United States as well as bids by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government to “advance” the country’s stability.
A delegation representing all members of the UN Security Council arrived in Damascus on Thursday, for the first visit to the Middle Eastern country in 14 years.
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution that declares Israel’s continued occupation and de facto annexation of the Syrian Golan "illegal" and demands its withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 line.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated a deal with Damascus is achievable, outlining expectations that Syrian authorities establish a demilitarised buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Jabal al-Sheikh, which Tel Aviv currently occupies.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has warned that Israel’s escalating incursions into Syria and Tel Aviv’s territorial ambitions there pose serious risks to security and stability across the wider West Asia region.
Syria has condemned the Israeli army raid on the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside as a “criminal assault,” saying the incursion and subsequent airstrikes amounted to a war crime.
At least 13 people were killed, including women and children, and several were wounded early Friday in an Israeli attack on the town of Beit Jinn and the road leading to Mazraat Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside.
Damascus has denounced a trip by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials to the country’s south, where they visited troops deployed to Syrian territory they’ve occupied for months.
Damascus has begun the trial of the first among hundreds of suspects accused of involvement in deadly clashes earlier this year that left hundreds dead in Syria’s coastal provinces.
China's top diplomat Wang Yi has pledged support for Damascus in "achieving peace at an early date", as his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani made his first official visit to Beijing on Monday.
