The United States and Israel are trying to prevent cargo ships and oil tankers from entering Syrian waters as part of the economic siege against the Arab country and its reconstruction process following the bloody civil war, a political analyst says.

The United States imposes a new round of sanctions targeting Syria’s oil sector, lawmakers and intelligence officers over providing support to President Bashar al-Assad.

The European Union has added eight ministers from the new Syrian government formed in August to its sanctions blacklist.

The Russian deputy PM says Moscow is trying to help Syria cope with the new US economic sanctions.

People have staged separate demonstrations in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province to denounce a recent deadly US airstrike against government troops.

The Russian ambassador to Beirut says US officials are under the illusion that they can disarm the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement through sanctions.

At least three Russian soldiers are reportedly injured in a drone strike in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.

Russia’s UN ambassador slams the exploitation of the cross-border mechanism for aid deliveries to Syria to infringe upon the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Syrian forces block three US military convoys in the country’s northeastern province of Hasakah, and force them to head back to their bases.

Syria’s Ambassador to the UN sends two identical letters to the UN secretary general and the rotating President of the Security Council.