Israeli occupations forces are seen during a ground incursion into the town of Khan Arnabeh in the province of Quneitra, southwestern Syria, on December 9, 2025...

A Syrian soldier stands guard on a main road leading to the town of Rastan in the central Homs province...

People walk next to election campaign billboards depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the capital Damascus on May 24, 2021...

File photo of an Israeli helicopter carrying two wounded troops to a hospital in Haifa after an explosion in the border with Lebanon...

President Vladimir Putin believes a US missile attack on a Syrian airbase near Homs has violated international law and seriously hurt Russia-US relations, the Kremlin says...

Russia has vowed to keep up support for the Syrian military in its fight against terrorism, calling for the establishment of a fact-finding mission to probe a reported chemical attack in the Arab country’s northwestern Idlib Province...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the bloody militancy plaguing his homeland is aimed at protecting the common interests of Israel and its partners, stressing that the “only option” left to save the nation is “victory” against foreign-backed terrorists...

Representatives from Russia and Western countries have been engaged in a war of words during an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) concerning a recent suspected chemical attack in Syria...

The UN has called on Iran, Russia and Turkey to convene a fresh round of peace talks between Damascus and opposition groups in Astana, Kazakhstan, to bring the situation on the ground under control amid increasing militant attempts to break into the heart of the Syrian capital in defiance of a countrywide truce...