Hammadi talked about Boosting joint efforts in terms of mobilizing resources and support in Qatar to contribute to the treatment of these patients.

Iran's Vice President for parliamentary affairs, Mohammad Hosseini said his country stood by Syrian people and government to the best of its ability to help preserve its territorial integrity.

Inflation in Syria is soaring just as fast as it is in neighboring Turkey, with basic food items such as bread selling at record prices and purchasing power at its lowest ever. And when the price of a bag of flatbread stops rising, locals say, the amount of bread inside...

Security forces in Lebanon and Syria said Saturday that they had seized two separate shipments of the banned stimulant captagon, the latest in a string of similar busts.

The meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), was held on Thursday via video.

After Iraqi authorities declared victory over the jihadists in 2017, scores of mass graves were discovered across the country, including in the Sinjar town of Kojo.

An Israeli air strike hit a shipment of Iranian weapons in the Syrian port of Latakia Tuesday, in the first such attack on the key facility, a war monitor said.

Syria denies the use of chemical weapons and insists it has handed over its weapons stockpiles under a 2013 agreement with the US and Russia.

Syria is an important destination for Shiite pilgrims, and has continued to welcome visitors from Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon during the conflict. However, European tourists —a constant before fighting started in 2011 — have not been visiting for a decade.

Israeli strikes targeting a part of Syria where fighters loyal to Lebanon's Hezbollah are based killed five people Wednesday, a war monitor said. The official Syrian news agency SANA, citing a military official, had reported earlier that two civilians had been killed.

Women and children were among the group intercepted Friday by a navy patrol off the coast of Qalamoun in northern Lebanon, the army says

Doctors Without Borders said its Geo Barents rescue ship had picked up 99 survivors on Tuesday. The victims had died of suffocation after 13 hours adrift at sea.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree eliminating the post of top Muslim cleric for the country and expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs.

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley has warned that more people in Syria are in the grips of hunger than at any time in the country’s decade-long conflict. He blamed a deadly combination fighting, climate change, Covid-19, and rising food and fuel costs for the problems.

Qatar's top diplomat voiced hope Friday for a halt to normalization with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates paid a visit to Damascus. The diplomat, however, also said that other nations had the "sovereign right" to make their own decisions on Syria.

Ankara on Friday banned citizens of Syria, Iraq and Yemen from flying from Turkish airports to Belarus because of the refugee crisis at the former Soviet country's border with Poland.

Syria has signed a deal with United Arab Emirates firms for the construction of a solar power plant near Damascus, state media said Thursday, in a sign of growing economic ties.

Only a few years ago, Al-Naim square was the grim stage for Raqa's public executions. Today, Nader al-Hussein sits in its new arched design, waiting for his date to arrive.

The reservoir formed by Al-Duwaysat Dam in Idlib province, a key irrigation source for thousands of farmers, is littered with stranded rowing boats, animal skulls and dead trees.

Syria's 800,000 richest citizens -- typically high-earners working in the private sector -- will now be exempt from government subsidies on bread and fuel.

Israeli air strikes hit positions held by the Syrian government and its pro-Iranian allies near Damascus overnight, a war monitor said on Wednesday.

The process of supplying Lebanon with electricity is expected to begin in early 2022.

A decade-old civil war, economic crisis and a creative brain drain that has deprived Syria of some of its best writers and many of their readers have compounded worldwide problems facing the industry

A senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said on Friday. The strike comes two days after a base in southern Syria, used by the US-led coalition fighting the Daesh group, was assaulted.

Eleven others were sentenced to hard labor for life, four to temporary penal labor and five minors were handed jail sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years over similar charges.

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan reviewed developments in Syria and the Middle East in a phone chat with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday.

Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan in particular have faced mounting direct and indirect pressure to return to Syria, in violation of the principle of nonrefoulement.

Meeting with his Israeli and UAE counterparts, Blinken said that President Joe Biden's administration's policy on Syria was largely focused on humanitarian relief.

Erdogan's signalling followed a car bombing on Monday in the northern Syrian city of Afrin that killed six people

The United Arab Emirates is followed by Qatar (60), Kuwait (61), Bahrain (69) and Oman (71) on the Henley Passport Index that covers 227 travel destinations.

An Israeli missile strike on an air base in central Syria has killed two Damascus-allied foreign fighters and wounded several Syrian service personnel, a Britain-based war monitor said on Saturday.

Jordan’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nasser Shraideh, have held discussions with Danish Minister of Development Cooperation Flemming Mortensen and his accompanying delegation to increase cooperation that may increase the volume of joint trade between the two countries.

Jordan's king held a telephone call with Syria's president on Sunday, the palace said, in the first such conversation between the two leaders since Syria's war erupted a decade ago.

Jordanian Prime Minister Bishr Khasawneh met his Lebanese counterpart Najib Mikati to discuss cooperation and help Lebanon.

MSF has blamed the ‘acute water crisis’ in recent months on a decrease in funding for water, sanitation and hygiene operations as well as the destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure during a decade of civil war.

He said the projects should benefit the two countries and cement a historical brotherhood bonding them.

The crossing was closed nearly two months ago due to fighting in Syria’s southern province of Daraa.

The Deir Ali station southeast of Damascus generates half of Syria's power needs

Lebanon has been without a government for more than a year, and the main priority of Prime Minister Najib Mikati's newly-selected cabinet would be to guarantee petrol and electricity supplies and curb other shortages that are crippling the country.

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that the first delivery of Iranian fuel would arrive Thursday in Lebanon to help ease dire shortages in the embattled country. Lebanon is facing one of its worst-ever economic crises, with more than three out of four Lebanese considered to be under the...

The conflict has ravaged electricity networks as well as oil and gas infrastructure across the country

Turkey turned into the home of one of the world's largest migrant populations when it struck a deal with Brussels to help resolve Europe's 2015-16 refugee crisis

The country has said it is ‘ready’ to help Lebanon with ‘transit for Egyptian gas and Jordanian electricity via Syrian territory’.

Aleppo, long considered one of Syria's main commercial hubs, has lost many of the merchants and businessmen who once gave the city its economic edge

Emergency workers tried to contain the spillage by roping it off with booms tossed from ships some 15 nautical miles off the shore

The World Bank has already called Lebanon’s economic crisis one of the worst in the world since the mid-1800s.

Reputed to have once flown through the biblical Garden of Eden, the Euphrates runs for almost 2,800 km (1,700 miles) across Turkey, Syria and Iraq, irrigating swathes of land in Syria's breadbasket, and runs through three hydroelectric dams. But over the past eight months the river has contracted to a...

The delegation will discuss the possibility of receiving electricity from Jordan and gas from Egypt through Syrian territories.

Clashes between the two sides since late July have marked the biggest challenge yet to the Russian-brokered deal that returned the southern province to government control

The video for the song "Ya Weel Weely", which topped five million views on YouTube within days of its release, was shot entirely in a small room lit by battery-powered devices