Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree on Saturday forming a new government, state television said, less than two months after controversial parliamentary elections boycotted by the oppositi

Syria on Thursday denounced an air force pilot who defected as a 'traitor' and said it wanted to recover the warplane he used to flee to neighbouring Jordan.

"The pilot is considered a deserter and a

The Syrian army killed at least 23 civilians in two protest cities on Saturday, a watchdog said, as an international outcry mounted over a massacre in a central village.

UN observers who visited the

President Bashar al-Assad dismissed on Sunday accusations his government had any role in the brutal Houla massacre, as he charged forces outside Syria of plotting to destroy the country.

In a rare te

At least 29 people were killed and 103 wounded on Thursday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up here, a minister said.

The toll in the blasts that rocked the capital Damascus at 7.55 a.m. is 2

Deadly clashes broke out between deserters and Syrian government forces on Saturday as a veteran Norwegian peacekeeper headed to Damascus to take charge of a UN mission overseeing a troubled truce.

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A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 20, state TV said. Thousands of Syrians protested elsewhere to

Amid a shaky truce and presence of UN monitors, Syria is bracing to hold its first multi-party parliamentary elections in five years next month that hopes to provide space for a nascent political oppo

Syria has said it was ready to facilitate UN monitors, but stressed that a majority of them should be from 'neutral countries' like BRICS, which also includes India.

Syria also stressed that while it

A team of United Nations observers monitoring a shaky ceasefire visited the central Syrian province of Homs on Saturday, state news agency SANA reported.

"A team of international observers visited th