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The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon has risen to 2,896 since March 2, while the number of wounded has climbed to 8,824, citing the L...
Trial session and charges Atef Najib, a cousin of Bashar al-Assad and former head of political security in Deraa, appeared in the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus for the second session of a landmark...
Return convoy A new convoy of about 1,200 families from Afrin departed al-Hasakah on May 9, heading back to villages and towns in the Afrin area of Aleppo countryside. Preparations began Friday evenin...
Suwayda housing crisis deepens Displacement from al-Mazraa and other western and northern countryside areas since the July 2025 events has sharply increased demand for rental homes in Suwayda city, w...
Key developments The UNHCR announced that roughly 900 Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned from Iraq to Syria since the start of 2026, noting that each returnee receives individual counselling to...
What happened Australian authorities were alerted that four women and nine children held at Roj Camp in northeastern Syria have booked flights from Damascus to Australia. The Australian Federal Polic...
After more than a decade of war and recurring economic crises, poverty in Syria has expanded to encompass the majority of the population, with UN assessments putting those below the poverty l...
Latest findings A committee set up by Syria’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to trace children of detainees says 194 children have so far been returned to their families after being placed in mi...
Syrian Minister of Endowments Mohammed Abu al-Khair Shukri met with Italian Ambassador Stefano Ravagnan to discuss strengthening bilateral ties, with emphasis on religious and humanitarian coo...
Situation in Qamishli A vacant school in Qamishli has become a makeshift shelter for dozens of displaced people after public schools were repurposed in January, hosting families who fled as Syrian go...
A 26-year-old Kurdish Syrian man who was sent back to France under the UK–France “one in, one out” asylum arrangement has had his French asylum claim rejected and been told Syria would be sa...
The National Commission for Transitional Justice is preparing a legal case against Fadi Saqr, the former commander of the National Defense Forces (NDF), accusing him of involvement in crimes...
Detention confirmed Syrian authorities have confirmed that 36-year-old German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann, who disappeared in January, is being held in Raqqa alongside a Kurdish-Turkish colleague...
The U.S. Supreme Court considered the Trump administration’s appeal over attempts to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for migrants from Haiti and Syria, a case that could affect as...
Families and relatives of Syrians detained in Israeli army prisons staged a protest on April 26 outside the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Damascus, denouncing what they described as...
Despite clear provisions in Syrian law and Islamic inheritance rules guaranteeing women a share of family estates, entrenched customs and family pressure continue to deprive many women of thei...
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said Saturday that the death toll from Israeli attacks since March 2 has risen to 2,496, with 7,725 people wounded, after four more fatalities were rec...
