BEHIND THE LINES: While the Kurdish-led authority was dissolved on paper, many of its institutions continued to function in ...

Syria’s National Commission for Missing Persons, established in 2025 and headed by Mohammad Reda Jalkhi, is responsible for ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reveals that he spoke with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa shortly after Israel bombed ...

Syrian authorities have imposed admissions rules that bar women from most programs at two new state universities focused on ...

Damascus has rejected attempts to draw the Druze community in Sweida into Israeli politics, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he had held a sharp phone call with Syrian ...

Even without deploying troops, Damascus could gain leverage. Israel should closely and carefully watch the army it builds.

Senior Kurdish figures are warning Israel against trusting conciliatory messages from Syria’s government, pointing to anti-Jewish incitement in mosques and calls by Syrian fighters to conquer the ...

It is the first publicly disclosed contact between the leaders of Israel and Syria, which lack formal relations and have ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's Health Ministry said Friday that 14 people were wounded, three of them critically, but that there were no fatalities in the explosion of a minivan taxi a day earlier in ...

Explosions have been heard in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in what security experts believe may have been an attack against French President Emmanuel Macron and his delegation as he makes a landmark ...

A vendor displays dried fruits at the central market in downtown Damascus, Syria, Oct. 13, 2026. (Photo by Ammar ...

'Very short and very sharp' call came shortly after Israel bombed government targets with stated aim of protecting Syrian ...