Saudi Arabia has seized over 700 million narcotic pills that entered its territory via Lebanon in the past eight years, its ambassador to Beirut said Tuesday. The kingdom suspended fruit and vegetable imports from Lebanon in April last year, accusing it of inaction after seizing millions of captagon amphetamine pills...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes were targeting Iranian-aligned militia, causing "several casualties." Israeli strikes, the Britain-based war monitor said, targeted positions and depots of arms and ammunition of Iran-affiliated militias. It reported multiple heavy explosions that sparked fires and resulted in "several victims"

The air strikes ordered by US President Joe Biden hit nine bunkers in a complex, in eastern Syria, used for ammunition storage and logistics by Iranian-backed militias. A US military spokesman said air strikes “targeted infrastructure facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

The recent bloodshed came against a backdrop of increased tensions pitting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies.

Violence has intensified on Syria’s northern border with Turkey leaving 21 civilians dead, many of them children. The bloodshed comes amid growing enmity that pits the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies.

Denying holding the American nationals captive, including journalist Austin Tice, the Syrian government has responded to US President Jo Biden's assertion that he knew 'with certainty' that Tice was being held by the Syrian regime, calling on Damascus to help bring him home.

Tension spiked between Turkey and Syria after the former launched air strikes on Syrian border posts, killing 17 fighters. It is still not clear if the victims were affiliated with the government or Kurdish forces. The Damascus government has threatened to launch a retaliatory attack against Turkey.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the attack, adding that the two people, whom it did not identify, were in an area bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan.

Ankara has launched successive military offensives in Syria. Most have targeted Kurdish militants that Ankara links to a group waging a decades-long insurgency against it.

Syria's internal commerce ministry has announced a petrol price hike of around 130 percent in the war-torn country facing fuel shortages and extended power cuts.

The prosecutor found that the grain aboard the vessel belonged to a Syrian merchant, the judicial official said.

Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its neighbor.

Syria announced Wednesday that it was severing ties with Ukraine in support of its close ally Russia, saying the move was a response to a similar move by Kyiv.

The commander of US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria on Friday urged Russia and Iran to prevent Turkey from launching a new attack in the country's north, days before an expected Syria summit.

Russia, Turkey and Iran have in recent years been holding talks on Syria as part of the so-called "Astana peace process" to end more than 11 years of conflict in the Middle Eastern country. It will be the Kremlin chief's second visit abroad since he sent troops into Ukraine in...

The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a vital system for cross-border aid to war-ravaged Syria by six months, the length of time wanted by Russia, diplomats told AFP Monday. 

Diplomats at the United Nations held last-ditch discussions on extending Syrian cross-border aid Sunday, as residents of the country's rebel-held northwest feared life-saving supplies could soon halt. The aid delivery mechanism across Turkey's border into rebel-held Syria at the Bab al-Hawa crossing is the only way UN assistance can reach...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Friday visited the former rebel bastion of Aleppo, including its historic Old City, for the first time since war broke out 11 years ago.

Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid to Syria by one year without Damascus's backing. Western powers then voted down a competing resolution put forward by Moscow that proposed extending approval by just six months.

Syrian phosphates used for fertilizer are being exported to Europe in bulk, benefitting a Russian firm and the sanctions-hit Damascus regime, a report said Thursday. Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Poland are among the EU states receiving Syrian phosphates, according to the report by a consortium of investigative journalists led by Lighthouse...

With a kilo of captagon estimated to amount to around 6,000 pills, the cumulated number of pills seized tops 14 million, the largest recorded haul by the Syrian government in years.

It would take Ukraine a decade to build infrastructure to replace its Black Sea ports, whose blockade by Russia is preventing grain exports around the world, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister said Friday.

Lebanon's crumbling electricity sector has cost the country more than $40 billion since the end of its 1975-1990 civil war.

A Syrian desert monastery that was once a hub for interfaith dialogue, attracting tens of thousands, has reopened to visitors after more than a decade of war and isolation.

Dozens of aid groups Tuesday urged the United Nations Security Council to renew a resolution allowing aid deliveries to millions in war-torn Syria via Turkey, ahead of its expiry next month. The Bab al-Hawa crossing on the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey is the only one through which UN...

Jordan has foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs into the kingdom from its border with Syria, seizing 900,000 Captagon pills and hashish.

Syria has confirmed major damage including to runways at Damascus International Airport, which was closed for a second day Saturday for repairs after Israeli air strikes. The transport ministry said that runways were out of service. Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds...

An Israeli missile attack early Friday hit several targets south of the Syrian capital Damascus, wounding at least one civilian, state media said.

Syrian air defense intercepted Israeli missiles south of Damascus on Monday, with no casualties reported, a military source told Syria's official news agency SANA. "The Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting points south of Damascus," with Syria's air defense intercepting most of the missiles,...

The country is among the countries most vulnerable and poorly prepared for climate change, which is forecast to worsen.

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid queue bumper-to-bumper amid the olive groves at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting to be allowed across into war-torn Syria. Inside are baby nappies and blankets, but also 15-kilo (33-pound) bags of flour, bulghur wheat, sugar, chickpeas and peanut-based pastes for children suffering from malnutrition. Each month...

The talks discussed constitutional principles, including preserving and strengthening state institutions, the supremacy of the constitution and the hierarchy of international agreements, and transitional justice.

Iraqi Foreign Minister said his country is determined to repatriate all the families stuck in the Syrian camp after "security checks" are completed.

Syrian authorities on Friday rejected plans by Turkey to return one million Syrian refugees to a "safe zone" on the border, state media reported. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in early May said Ankara was aiming to encourage one million Syrian refugees to return to their country by building them...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday pledged that Turkey would not drive Syrian refugees back to their home country despite pressure from opposition parties. Turkey is today home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees who fled after civil war broke out in 2011.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi during a brief visit to Tehran on Sunday, Iranian state television said. Iran is a major ally of Assad, backing him alongside Russia in Syria's more than decade long civil war.

More Syrian children are in need than at any time since a devastating civil war erupted over a decade ago, but funding for them is "dwindling", the United Nations warned Sunday. "Children's needs, both inside Syria and in neighboring countries, are growing," said Adele Khodr, UNICEF's Middle East chief.

Half a million people have been detained in Syria's prisons since the start of the war, with about 100,000 dying either under torture or due to poor detention conditions.

Iraqi security forces said Saturday they had broken up a drug trafficking ring and seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon, making several arrests. Iraq's northwestern neighbor Syria is the Middle East's main captagon producer, and its southern neighbor Saudi Arabia the main consumer. Iraqi forces...

Israeli air strikes near Damascus on Wednesday killed 10 combatants, among them six Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said. Government media in Syria confirmed four casualties in the strikes, on which Israel did not comment.

Oil-rich Iraq, despite its mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is classified as one of the world's five countries most vulnerable to climate change and desertification.

United Nations human rights experts have asked the Australian government to repatriate 46 of its citizens from detention camps in Syria, raising "deepest disquiet" that women and children are living in squalor. In a joint letter made public Sunday, 10 UN special rapporteurs said bringing this group -- which includes 30...

NEPCO Director Amjad Rawashdeh has called the linkages a model for Arab countries.

In a bombed-out building in northwest Syria, rescue workers who for years have braved Russia's war strategies film a tutorial video for Ukrainian volunteers.

Syria has over the past few months repeatedly accused the US of using its forces to steal oil from its territories. Operation Inherent Resolve, the US military's operational name for the international military intervention against the Islamic State group, has refuted those claims.

The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security official said on Saturday. Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, is Syria's largest camp for displaced people. It houses about 56,000 including displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees.

The latest move follows months of growing discontent in Syria over a spiraling economic crisis.

Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop Islamic State group jihadists from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday. In the "first stage" of construction, a wall around "a dozen kilometers (seven miles) long and 3.5 meters (11 feet) high was built...

As the world talks about the Ukraine crisis, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called out the world about its reaction to the suffering of a lot of countries in the Middle East.

The world must not forget the millions of people in need across the Middle East and North Africa, UN chief Antonio Guterres told the Security Council.