Sunday, 13 April, 2025 , 17:52 AFP — A powerful armed faction in southern Syria led by defected military officer Ahmed al-Awdeh on Sunday announced that it was dissolving itself and integrating into the government's armed forces.

Saturday, 12 April, 2025 , 14:41 AFP — Security forces from the new Islamist government in Damascus deployed Saturday around a strategic dam in northern Syria, under a deal with the autonomous Kurdish administration, state media reported.

Thursday, 10 April, 2025 , 17:31 AFP — The Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have struck a deal with the central government on running a key dam they captured from jihadists with US support, a Kurdish source said Thursday.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 19:29 AFP — Iran on Wednesday executed five men accused of belonging to banned Sunni Muslim groups, rights groups said, describing them as "political prisoners" who had been subjected to an unjust trial.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 14:53 AFP — A Vienna court on Wednesday convicted an Austrian woman brought back from a Syrian detention camp for having been part of the Islamic State group, but ordered her jail sentence to be suspended in the first such case in the country.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 09:28 AFP — An Austrian woman who was brought back alongside her son from a Syrian detention camp went on trial in Vienna on Wednesday, in the first such case in the country.

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 , 09:24 AFP — An Austrian woman who was brought back alongside her son from a Syrian detention camp went on trial in Vienna on Wednesday, in the first such case in the country.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 18:48 AFP — Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in a historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry official said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 15:52 AFP — Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in an historically Kurdish-majority area of the country's north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry official said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025 , 15:26 AFP — Two German left-wing extremists who had been living in exile in Venezuela were given suspended sentences on Tuesday for planning an attack in the 1990s, after they returned to Germany under a plea deal.