Topics included: compliance with the 1974 cease-fire agreement, violence in southern Syria, smuggling and refugees In a move described as surprising and unprecedented in recent years, Damascus disclosed a meeting between Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani and an Israeli delegation in Paris,

The UN Special Envoy for Syria briefed the Security Council on Thursday, saying that amid a strained ceasefire and military skirmishes in Syria, the political transition “remains on a knife’s edge”.

The spiritual leader of Israel's Druze has met a senior US diplomat to push for the plight of the sect's followers in neighbouring Syria. It comes as Washington seeks to contain violence between the new government in Damascus and the country's minorities.

Mobile health and nutrition teams deliver critical services in Rural Damascus after a surge in fighting triggers a wave of displacement from As-Sweida.

An inquiry into Suwayda is expected to be similarly puny. In Damascus critics say the regime has absolved Syria’s military command of any real responsibility for their troops’ role in the coastal massacres, preferring to pin the blame on rogue ...

A group of bipartisan lawmakers met with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, part of a growing group in Congress engaging with the new Syrian government as President Trump has moved to

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Tuesday held a rare meeting with Ron Dermer, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister and top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

War-ravaged Syria appears to be on the brink of fracturing again. Various rebel groups, united only in their hatred for deposed President Bashar al-Assad, are now looking at each other not as allies, but through gun sights.

There was no immediate confirmation that ISIS' top leader, Abu Hafs al-Qurayshi, was the target, but Syrian state media reported an Iraqi national was killed in the raid — the Pentagon has yet to confirm US involvement.

At the same time, there are concerns in Israel about Syria’s treatment of the Druze in southern Syria and also questions about Syria-Israel ties. A group of US members of Congress met with Syrian transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday.

The secret police abducted many of them with their parents and brought them to interrogation sites. Then they were placed in orphanages. The regime changed some children’s names and let them be adopted. Many were so young that they forgot who their parents were. The boys in these places were often conscripted when they came of age.