The Latest Breaking News from Syria

IT’S a strategy that for time immemorial has been framed in terms of words like “self-defence”, “survival” and “national security”.

Government urges all parties to commit to truce and says any breaches will be violation of sovereignty

Gaza’s civil defence agency said ‘Israeli gunfire’ had killed 22 people at one site and four at another

Division between minority populations drag Syria further into cycle of violence and attracts Israeli opportunism

The agreement comes after intense clashes displaced tens of thousands of people and contributed to a worsening humanitarian crisis in a region still recovering from over a decade of brutal civil war.

US ambassador says truce was ‘supported’ by the US and ’embraced’ by Turkiye, Jordan and Syria’s neighbours.

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 16.

Isa Giga was arrested last year after travelling to fight for the Jaysh Al Fath group in Syria

Isa Giga, 32, resigned from his job as a technical support consultant job and flew to Turkey before crossing into wartorn Syria in 2015.