Syria

Daraa, southwestern Syria - The Israeli army detained two young men on Sunday evening in the countryside of Daraa province, southwestern Syria, according to +963 correspondent. The correspondent reported that the two were arrested in the village of Maariya, located...

Ankara, Turkey - The US envoy to Syria, Thomas Barak, said on Sunday that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia that has been a key US ally in the fight against ISIS, must be integrated into the new...

Brussels – A British Royal Air Force drone has targeted and killed a suspected ISIS fighter in northwest Syria, The Sun newspaper reported on Saturday. Citing a source from the UK Ministry of Defence, the report said a £24 million...

Robert Beatty, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for accountability, investigation, and prosecution of those responsible for violations in Syria, stated that the Mechanism’s work heavily relies on collaboration with civil society organisations and the documentation of...

On Friday, June 28, unidentified gunmen kidnapped an elderly man in the city of Afrin, located in the Aleppo countryside in northwestern Syria, and transported him to an unknown location. A local source told +963 that masked gunmen stormed the...

On Sunday, June 29, the Syrian Ministry of Information denied reports of an assassination attempt targeting President Ahmed Al-Sharaa during his visit to the southern governorate of Daraa at the start of the month. A source from the ministry told...

The Syrian Ministry of Interior under the transitional government announced the seizure of three million Captagon pills and 50 kilograms of cannabis in the countryside of Damascus. According to a report by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on...

Damascus, Syria - Syria’s national airline is struggling to stay airborne with only three planes left in its fleet, according to the head of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, Ashhad Al-Suleibi.  Speaking on Friday, Al-Suleibi admitted the airline’s tiny fleet...

Brussels – Amnesty International issued a warning on Thursday about the deteriorating humanitarian and medical conditions facing survivors of detention in prisons once run by Syria’s ousted regime, particularly the notorious Saydnaya prison. In a statement published on its official...

Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria - Residents of the town of Al-Hari in eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside discovered a mass grave early Friday in the Syrian desert near the border with Iraq, containing the remains of several individuals killed under unknown...