On Nov. 13, 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in 1946, and there was no reason to think it would be the last. Yet 50 years later, Hafez Assad’s...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday blamed U.S. sanctions and pressure on the United Nations and Syria’s neighbours for the reticence of more than 5 million refugees who fled the conflict there to return. “There are many hurdles,” Assad said, citing U.S. sanctions at the...

The Syrian Response Coordinators Group maintains that the settlement proposed by the Russian-brokered refugee conference in Damascus will not be viable as long as Russian and regime forces are still in control in Syria. On Tuesday, the Group stated that regime and Russian media...

Zaman Al-Wasl has obtained intersecting information about the arrival of a suspected perpetrator of violations against Syrians to Germany a few days ago as part of the "family unification visa" program. The sources provided the investigation team to pursue war criminals against the Syrians...