Syria has more than six months' worth of strategic wheat reserves, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister Abdullah al-Gharbi said on Thursday. While President Bashar al-Assad has scored vital military gains against rebels seeking to oust him in a six-year-old civil war he is under...

In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 fighters from Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, have been arrested by powerful Jaish al-Islam militia after storming their bastion near the capital, spokesman said.   Wael Alwan, spokesman for Failaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The arrival of new wave of displaced people to the camp of Qana south of the city of Hasaka after Islamic State announced its intention to recruit young people in its areas of control, amid fears of displaced people being harmed by the remnants of primitive crude oil refineries...