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Syrian court accepts 3 candidates to run for president

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BEIRUT — Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country,...

UN Syria envoy says there’s interest in stepped up diplomacy

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for Syria said Wednesday that key global players are interested in stepped-up international diplomacy to “unlock progress”...

Denmark tells some Syrians to leave, separating families

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An email brought Faeza Satouf’s world to a standstill. ...

France urges rebuke for Syria over chemical weapons use

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A group of 46 nations called Tuesday on member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog to diplomatically rebuke Syria...

1st woman applies to run for Syria’s presidential elections

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BEIRUT — A woman from the capital Damascus has applied to run for Syria’s presidential elections, the parliament speaker said Tuesday, becoming the first...

Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19

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PARIS — Michel Kilo, an exiled veteran Syrian opposition figure, died Monday of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived,...

Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19

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PARIS — Michel Kilo, an exiled veteran Syrian opposition figure, died Monday of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived,...

‘No Sweets’: For Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a tough Ramadan

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BHANNINE, Lebanon — It was messy and hectic in Aisha al-Abed’s kitchen, as the first day of Ramadan often is. Food had to be...

UN envoy: Myanmar faces possibility of major civil war

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned Wednesday that the country faces the possibility of civil war “at an unprecedented scale”...

Syria says Assad, his wife have recovered from coronavirus

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BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife have recovered from COVID-19 and returned to their regular duties on Tuesday, three weeks after...