Syria announces Damascus-Aleppo highway open to traffic
Syria’s transport ministry declared the main highway between Damascus and Aleppo open to the public on Saturday after troops recaptured the major artery in a...
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Syrian air defences shoot down missiles over two air bases
Syrian anti-aircraft defences shot down missiles fired at the Syrian air base of Shayrat in Homs province late on Monday and another base northeast of...
Assad closer to Ghouta victory, as some rebels prepare to quit
The Syrian government moved closer to ending rebel resistance in eastern Ghouta as civilians streamed out of one of its besieged, bomb-battered towns on Thursday...
Medical evacuations begin from Syria’s Eastern Ghouta (Update)
Months of deadlock over medical evacuations from Syria‘s biggest remaining siege broke late on Tuesday when a deal between Damascus and a rebel faction allowed the...
Putin orders ‘major part’ of Syria forces to withdraw (Update)
President Vladimir Putin ordered “a significant part” of Russia’s military contingent in Syria to start withdrawing on Monday, saying Moscow and Damascus had achieved their mission of...
Israeli missiles hit military post near Damascus – Syrian state TV
Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. “The...
Rockets hit Damascus airport area in probable Israeli attack
Two rockets struck near Damascus airport at dawn on Friday, Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen reported, an attack it said had probably been carried out by...
Syrian army declares end of hostilities east of capital
The Syrian military declared a cessation of hostilities on Saturday in the rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta region near the capital, state television reported. Eastern Ghouta, stretching...
Three car bombs hit Damascus, at least seven people killed
Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, state media said, killing at least seven people in the first suicide bombings in the Syrian capital...
Israel strikes arms depot near Syrian capital’s airport
Syrian rebel and intelligence sources said Israel struck an arms supply hub on Thursday operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport where weapons...
Young girl suicide bomber in Damascus police station blast – state TV
Syrian state television said a young girl of about nine years of age blew herself up on Friday in a police station in the Midan...
Battle for Aleppo escalates, UN sees ‘bleak moment’
Syrian rebels fought fiercely with pro-government forces as they tried to advance into opposition-held areas of eastern Aleppo on Friday and warplanes kept up their...
Syrians in rebel Damascus suburb start to evacuate in deal
Hundreds of civilians in the Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya began to leave the rebel-held area on Friday in what the government described as an amnesty,...
First evacuees leave besieged Damascus suburb Daraya
Besieged residents and rebels began leaving the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Friday, Reuters witnesses said, as an evacuation to end one of the longest...
Suspected gas attack on Aleppo causes deaths, injuries -hospital, rescuers
By Abdalrahman Ismail At least four people died and many suffered breathing difficulties when a gas, believed to be chlorine, was dropped alongside barrel bombs...
Archbishop Chrysostomos meets Assad in Damascus
Archbishop Chrysostomos and a Cypriot delegation was on Monday received by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. According to Syrian news agency SANA, talks during...
Islamic State claims blasts near Damascus Shi’ite shrine, 20 killed
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi ISLAMIC State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria’s holiest Shi’ite Muslim shrine, and...
Hezbollah blames rebel shelling for death of top commander in Syria (Updated)
By Lisa Barrington Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by Sunni Islamist artillery...
Syrian state TV says 300 workers kidnapped by Islamic State
Islamic State fighters have kidnapped 300 cement workers in an area north-east of Damascus where the militants launched an assault against government forces this week,...
Multiple bombings hit southern Damascus suburb
Multiple explosions hit a southern district of Damascus on Sunday where Syria’s holiest Shi’ite shrine is located, pro-government television channels, witnesses and a monitoring group...