2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (223+ words) Protests have erupted across several cities in Syria after the government increased fuel prices, with demonstrators blocking a main highway for several hours. The government raised prices on Sunday by up to 40 percent on diesel and 28 percent on petrol, in…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (924+ words) Successive wars launched after 9/11 have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced more than 38 million others. Twenty-five years have passed since 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four commercial aeroplanes and slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people....

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (270+ words) ROME (AFP): Syria’s future constitution should guarantee the equality and inclusion of all religious minorities to stem emigration, a Syrian minister told AFP on Tuesday. “We have to have a new constitution, which includes everybody, and (in which) everybody is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (275+ words) BEIRUT (AFP): Lebanon has arrested a former Syrian intelligence officer and several accomplices who allegedly planned attacks against the forces of Syria’s new government, a judicial official told AFP on Wednesday. The alleged leader of the network is a former…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (610+ words) SWEIDA, Syria (AFP): Armed factions in Syria’s Druze-majority Sweida province have blocked students from traveling to sit for official exams, demanding they be held instead in the areas they control, drawing condemnation from the Damascus-appointed governor on Saturday....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (441+ words) DAMASCUS (AFP): Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa appointed Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi as a presidential adviser, state media said on Friday, days after Abdi announced the dissolution of his Kurdish forces under an integration deal with Damascus. “Mustafa Khalil Abdi is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (211+ words) DAMASCUS (AFP): The head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, who spearheaded the fight against the Daesh group, announced their dissolution on Tuesday evening as part of a deal struck with the new authorities in Damascus. “We announce today the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (635+ words) DAMASCUS (AFP): Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa hailed on Tuesday the United States’ removal of his country from the state sponsors of terror list, a major sanctions relief step for a country aiming to boost post-war reconstruction. “Today, Syria shakes off…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (668+ words) The expert consensus was that if any power was to challenge the collective self-defense of NATO, it would be Russia. The fear has been for some years that President Vladimir Putin might launch an attack on a smaller NATO member,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (127+ words) DAMASCUS (AFP): A Syrian court on Monday handed a life sentence to Ahmed Hassoun, the country’s former grand mufti under ousted leader Bashar Assad, convicting him of crimes including inciting sectarian strife and exploiting his position. Hassoun, the 10th Assad-era figure…...