Ambush in Southern Syria’s Druze Region Leaves Two Dead, Undermines Local Peace Deal

By Kardo Roj SUWAYDA, Syria (North Press) – Two members of Syria’s General Security were killed and four others injured on Tuesday in a deadly ambush in rural Suwayda, southern Syria, as tensions escalate in the predominantly Druze region. The attack …

Syria Foils Major Drug Smuggling Operation in Southern Daraa

By Kardo Roj DARAA, Syria (North Press) – Syrian authorities announced Tuesday the seizure of over 800,000 illicit narcotic pills near the country’s southern border with Jordan, marking one of the largest drug interdictions since the start of the year and …

War Remnants Kill Civilian, Injure Children in Northwest Syria

By Kardo Roj IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – A civilian was killed and five others, including four children, were injured on Tuesday in two separate explosions caused by remnants of war in rural areas of Idlib governorate, underscoring the persistent …

Syrian Presidency Clarifies: "No Sahrawi fighters in Syria, neither now nor in the past"

Shaheed Al-Hafed, May 6, 2025 (SPS) – The Syrian presidency has denied the existence of any current or past information or evidence supporting Moroccan claims regarding the presence of Sahrawi fighters in Syria or its prisons, whether now or previously …

Turkey has no intention of taking over any part of Syria, FM says

Jordan's flag carrier resumes flights to Syria's Aleppo

AMMAN, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Royal Jordanian Airlines (RJ) on Tuesday resumed its direct flights between Amman and Aleppo, making the flag carrier of Jordan one of the first carriers to reintroduce direct flights to the strategic Syrian city, the state-run …

Syria's interim leader to visit France for talks with Macron: state media

DAMASCUS, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is set to visit France on Wednesday for a high-level meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, marking his first official trip to a European country since the fall of the previous …

2 killed in ambush on security convoy in Syria

DAMASCUS, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Two members of Syria's security forces were killed and four others wounded in an ambush on a medical evacuation convoy in the southern province of Sweida on Tuesday, state news agency SANA reported. SANA said the ambush …

Israel warns Syria with strikes, extends aid to threatened Druze

(May 6, 2025 / JNS) Israel undertook significant military action across Syria in the first days of May to protect southern Syrian Druze communities, while providing humanitarian assistance to them, as the Druze face attacks from jihadist militias, some …

Israel's aggression in Syria advances a century-long plan to co-opt the Druze

Last week, the predatory Israeli military took time from its busy schedule of exterminating Gaza's Palestinians, bombing and shooting Palestinians across the West Bank, bombing Lebanon, and initiating an assortment of bombing runs across Syrian …