Independent news aggregation
On 21 June, US President Donald Trump told Fox News he was "close to giving it over to Syria" after expressing frustration that Israel had not defeated Hezbollah without large-scale destructi...
Israeli leaders announce open-ended deployments Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz told a graduation for combat officers in southern Israel that Israeli forces will ma...
Family threatened with immediate expulsion Malek (41) and Khaldieh (32) Al Elfi and their three children — Hisham, 15, Fata, 12, and Houmam, 8 — fled bombardment in Homs and reached France after ente...
Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani met UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, conveying greetings from Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa....
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration may terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for migrants from Haiti and Syria, overturning lower-court orders that ha...
Muscat talks advance diplomacy Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman met in Muscat with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani to review progress in...
Lebanon transferred 128 Syrian prisoners to Damascus on Wednesday to serve the remainder of their sentences, a Lebanese security source told AFP. The move is the second handover under a Febr...
Key developments Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reiterated on Tuesday that negotiations remain the most appropriate route to protect Lebanon’s national interests, while stressing an uncompromising co...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on June 23 that Iran has accepted the highest level of nuclear inspections for the indefinite future and has committed to keeping the Strait of Hormuz o...
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the return of former ministry spokesperson Jihad Makdissi, appointing him Advisor for American Affairs as part of a wider reshuffle of depart...
Nearly 18 months after the country's liberation and the fall of the previous regime, Syria still lacks a law to regulate political parties and organize formal political life. The absence of s...
US President Donald Trump told Fox News he is "disappointed" that Israel has not been able to decisively defeat Hezbollah, criticizing the Israeli campaign in Lebanon for relying on heavy des...
Damascus talks boost agricultural, trade and investment cooperation Syrian and Turkish officials and business representatives met Saturday at the Damascus and Damascus Countryside Agriculture Chamber...
Since the fall of the Assad government on December 8, 2024, the Sunni Islamist administration of President Ahmed al-Sharaa has moved to consolidate control, most notably by dismantling the K...
Syria faces a fragile transition as long-suppressed demands for justice re-emerge across society. Analysts warn that without credible institutions to investigate and prosecute war crimes, enf...
Mezzeh 86 demonstration, June 16 On June 16 residents staged a demonstration at the entrance to the Mezzeh 86 neighborhood in Damascus that began near the area and concentrated at a main gate. Protes...
The Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC) publicly denied reports that AXP Energy has entered Syria’s oil and gas sector or signed any agreement with it, saying on June 16 that all contracts and par...
Amichai Chikli, a far-right minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, told radio interviewers this week that Israel “will be at...
Meeting in Damascus Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani received German State Minister and Deputy Foreign Minister Serap Güler on Wednesday to discuss follow-up measures from President A...
Key developments A cache of roughly 19 gigabytes of documents attributed to Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates was published on a Telegram channel, releasing scanned files, diplomatic...
In unusually candid remarks, US President Donald Trump acknowledged that Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon has caused significant civilian deaths and criticized its methods, sayi...
The Syrian government has started supplying fuel stations in al-Hasakah governorate with diesel and other fuels sourced from the Homs refinery under a joint plan with the Directorate of Agric...
Syria’s Attorney General Hassan al-Turba said the country’s transitional justice effort is built on an integrated legal, human-rights and political framework and is proceeding normally and at...
