The Latest Breaking News from Syria

A decade after a sarin gas attack killed hundreds and left thousands hurt in a Syrian suburb near the capital of Damascus, survivors say there has been no accountability for that attack or for other atrocities committed during the country's brutal conflict

Syrian opposition activists say protests have broken out in two government-held provinces in the south amid widespread anger over increasing prices, the crash of the Syrian pound and the dwindling purchasing power of many people in the war-torn country

In 2013, the Syrian regime attacked the towns of Zamalka, Ein Tarma, and Irbin in Ghouta countryside with a nerve agent.

In a region decimated by an earthquake and populated mostly by IDPs, the intense heat is making life even harder.

Several hundred trucks bound for the Gulf states have been trapped at the border between Syria and Jordan since early August because of a new Saudi law affecting cargo vehicles apparently aimed at stemming the flow of the drug Captagon.

In north-east Syria, the 12-year conflict is far from over. Russian fighter jets buzz US surveillance drones, threatening to bring them down. Iranian-backed militias occasionally fire rockets at US positions. The Assad regime maintains that it will “regain every inch” of Syria, ending Kurdish autonomy in the north-east.

Europe is bracing for the possible influx of a drug that’s hooked the Middle East as political shifts and crackdowns in the Gulf spur producers in Syria and Lebanon to tap new markets.

World No. 68 Saudi Arabia scored baskets at will as the enthusiastic bunch of Indian hoopsters found that it was a tall order to beat the tallest team of the competition. The Indians suffered a 75-92 defeat in FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament Asia in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday.

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has doubled public sector wages and pensions as the war-torn country’s national currency spiraled further downwards, reaching a new low for the year

The 17-year-old from Philadelphia accused of communicating with Syrian group linked to Al-Qaeda

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel exchange threats to send each other back to the ‘stone age’, Ghajar is in the middle.