Syria fighting

Damascus announce completion of anti-Assad loyalist campaign

Clashes between Assad loyalists and the country's new Islamist rulers have killed more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians.

  Search and sweep operations are being expanded to track down remnants of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime after recent security tensions in the coastal region, where ousted regime elements attacked security patrols and checkpoints, resulting in casualties on March 07, 2025 in Latakia, Syria.
 IRAN’S PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, earlier this month.

Syria's Assad to steal spotlight at Arab summit after years in the cold

 Smoke rises near a building as people take part in a protest in Sweida, Syria, December 4, 2022, in this picture obtained by Reuters.

Protesters storm governor's office in southern Syrian city, two killed in clashes

Israeli Air Force F-35 flies during an aerial demonstration at an air force graduation ceremony

Israel's war-between-wars campaign in Syria most precise operation - report


Syria's first lady facing prosecution in UK for encouraging terrorist acts

According to the report, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers accuses her of being among a number of "influential actors" who encouraged and incited acts of terrorism and international crimes.

Syria's President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma, plant trees in city of Draykish, near Tartous, Syria December 30, 2020.

Syrian army clashes with Dara’a fighters near Israel and Jordan

Reports of artillery and that “local militant groups from the western village of Dara’a deployed near Tafas” leaves questions about who is in control.

Fences are seen on the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights March 25, 2019.

Syrian former general slams Israel for 'repeated attacks'

The comments come after Syrian regime media has blamed Israel for airstrikes near Damascus, Palmyra, Homs and the border with Lebanon in recent weeks.

Smoke rises near the border town of Tel Abyad, Syria, October 12, 2019

Behind the Lines: The Syrian sideshow

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu watch servicemen passing by as they visit the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, Syria

Five killed in alleged Israeli attack on Syria's T4 airbase

SANA quotes military source saying soldier killed, ammunition depot destroyed

Flares are seen in the sky during fighting in the Islamic State's final enclave, in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria March 11, 2019

Syrian regime seeks 'intensified' talks with Kurdish forces

Damascus has previously stated its opposition to the kind of federal-state sought by the main Kurdish groups.

 Kurdish-led militiamen ride atop military vehicles as they celebrate victory over Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, October 17, 2017

Following U.S. withdrawal, Turkey reinforces troops on Syrian border

The convoy was being sent to reinforce a Turkish military presence on the border near the northern Syrian province of Idlib.

U.S. and Turkish soldiers conduct the first-ever combined joint patrol outside Manbij, Syria, November 1, 2018. Picture taken November 1, 2018. Courtesy Arnada Jones/U.S.

U.S.-led coalition begins withdrawal from Syria

President Donald Trump announced last month the decision to withdraw 2,000 US troops who have deployed to Syria.

SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES and US troops are seen during a patrol near Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria, in November.

U.S. military: Withdrawal from Syria could take several months

The plan has no set timetable, so the withdrawal may be slower than originally anticipated.

U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington.

Prominent Syrian media activist Raed Fares assassinated

Well known for documenting peaceful protests against the Assad regime, activists, friends and allies mourned his loss on social media.

Activists sit at the premises of the Radio Fresh station in Kafranbel town in the Idlib governorate

One hundred kilometers between war and peace in Syria?

Israel reportedly rejects Russian offer to prevent Iranian-backed forces from operating near the border, prompting many to question whether Jerusalem is demanding too much

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whispering in a cabinet meeting on July 23, 2018