The Latest Breaking News from Syria

The foreign minister of the new government in Damascus says Iran must not ‘spread chaos’ in Syria.

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one million pills of captagon, whose industrial-scale production flourished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

The meeting between the rebel groups and Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa "ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all the groups and their integration under the supervision of the ministry of defence", said a statement carried by the SANA news agency and the authorities' Telegram account.

The national team are looking forward having changed their colours just hours after Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus

Bashar al-Assad’s fall was a blow to Iran and its regional supporters, but anti-Houthi Yemenis see a rare opportunity.

Protests have erupted following the burning of a Christmas tree in Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-majority town in Syria, causing tension between fighters and locals.

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's forces.

After surviving years of war in Syria and becoming refugees in Lebanon, two sisters are celebrating their first Christmas repatriated as a family in Australia.

Syria's new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country's rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defence ministry.

A Russian cargo ship, the Ursa Major, sank in the Mediterranean Sea following an explosion in the engine room, Russia's foreign ministry confirmed.

Ursa Major sank after an explosion with two crew members missing, officials said