The Latest Breaking News from Syria

The recent amnesty in Syria led to the release of prisoners who had been declared dead to their families. The detainees were released following a presidential amnesty for those accused of "terrorist crimes". Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the relatives of a man, Z.M., who had been imprisoned for 10…

The Syrian architect and writer on the idea of home in Branagh’s Belfast, smart Arab horses in Homs and the joy of lentils in Damascus

French-Syrian imam Bassam Ayachi was sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for association with terrorist criminals. Considered in Belgium as a veteran radical, the 75-year-old sheikh was tried in April in the French capital for his role in Syria’s Idlib region between 2014 and 2018, AFP reported. The…

An Israeli missile attack on the Masyaf area in Syria's Hama countryside late Friday killed five and injured seven including a child, state media reported, citing a military statement.

When Vladimir Putin's original plan to take Kyiv fell apart, he brought in a battle-hardened army general to clean up the mess and finish the job. But the brutal tactics that saw him crowned the 'Butcher of Syria' have not played out the same in Ukraine.

A rocket attack on a military bus killed 10 soldiers and wounded nine more in northwest Syria on Friday, state news agency SANA reported, in a deadly flare-up near the frontier with opposition-held territory close to the Turkish border. The bus was hit in the Anjara area west of Aleppo…

Qatar is facing new scrutiny over alleged financial ties to terrorism in a lawsuit from the family of a beheaded American journalist and a separate federal investigation of a member of the country’s royal family

Syria's foreign ministry on Friday criticised a U.S. decision to allow some foreign investment in areas of northern Syria that are outside of government control, vowing to "defeat" the move.

Eleven years after the start of the conflict in Syria, the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine have made the economic situation in the war-torn country even worse. FRANCE 24 interviewed Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who recently met President…

The global coalition against the Islamic State group met this week in Morocco to coordinate efforts to prevent the jihadists staging a revival in the Middle East and North Africa.

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