The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has decided to restore ties with Syria, 10 years after its leadership shunned Damascus over opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on a revolt against his rule, two sources within the group told Reuters. One official who asked not to be named...

Lebanon, Egypt and Syria signed an agreement on Tuesday to import Egyptian gas to a power plant in northern Lebanon through Syria. The deal would increase badly needed electricity supplies in Lebanon, which is suffering under a severe energy crisis and chronic outages. The agreement...

 An attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria on Monday killed 13 people, including 11 soldiers, and wounded three troops, Syrian state media reported, quoting an unnamed military official. According to state news agency, SANA, the attack occurred in the province of Raqqa, which was...

Five United Nations organisations yesterday called on the Security Council to extend a cross-border aid mechanism to Syria. The demands were made in a joint statement by Martin Griffiths, UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Russell, the executive director of...

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Thursday that a United Nations plane has been grounded at the Damascus International Airport after an Israeli strike on the facility. Speaking at a conference for the return of migrants, Mekdad said the U.N. plane "is sitting there" waiting for...

The U.S.-led coalition said it had detained a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria during an early-morning operation on Thursday. The coalition conducts raids and strikes targeting members of the jihadist group, which has been waging insurgent attacks since its defeat on the...

The foreign ministers of Ireland, Norway and Turkey say aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria must continue, warning Wednesday of a humanitarian crisis if the only remaining border gate is closed. Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador has told the U.N. Security Council that...

A director of a relief organization was killed on Wednesday when an improvised explosive device exploded in his car in the opposiiton-held city of Al-Bab east of Aleppo province. The "Humanitarian Relief Organization" (IYD) mourned "Amer Alfin," the director of its office in the city of...

The return of Syrian refugees will be one the main agenda items during 18th Astana format talks on Syria, which will start on Wednesday in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. As guarantor countries, delegations from Türkiye, Russia and Iran will meet the Syrian regime...

The Turkish-backed National Army made a prisoner swap with the regime forces on Monday in northern Aleppo province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The "Sultan Murad" Division operating under the umbrella of the "Syrian National Army" conducted the prisoner exchange with the regime forces at the...

The Iraqi Hezbollah militia has brought 21 families of its fighters from Iraq to settle in southern Damascus suburbs, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.   The passenger buses arrived on Saturday evening in the town of Albukamal in eastern Deir Ezzor province, coming from Iraq,...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has issued a strongly-worded warning about the consequences of a potential end to UN aid delivered to rebel-held areas of Syria via a Turkish border crossing. A UN Security Council mandate to deliver cross-border aid to the rebel-held areas, without...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli airstrike that struck Damascus International Airport caused “significant” damage to infrastructure and rendered the main runway unserviceable until further notice, Syria said Saturday. The statement by the Transportation Ministry was the first detailing the...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards militia on Wednesday burned three houses in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs, after storming and searching them, in an act of revenge against civilians whose relatives belonged to the "Islamic State" group. Zaman al-Wasl reporter...

A Syrian military official said an Israeli attack targeted sites south of the capital Damascus early on Friday, Syrian state media reported. Syrian air defences intercepted the missiles and downed most of them, but the attack caused one civilian injury and some material damage, the official...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Greece to demilitarize islands in the Aegean Sea, saying he was “not joking” with the admonition. Turkey says Greece has been building a military presence in violation of treaties that guarantee the unarmed...

The rate of chickenpox infections in the al-Hussainiya camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus suburbs has increased significantly in recent times due to the scarcity of water and the lack of medical services provided to the people, monitoring group said. The Action Group for Palestinians...

Syria’s state television reported Tuesday that Israeli missiles targeted Syrian army positions south of the capital of Damascus, causing material damage but no casualties. , The TV quoted an unnamed military official as saying that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles while flying over...

Three civilians, including two children, were wounded in a terrorist attack in northwestern Syria on Monday. A car bomb detonated in the opposition-held Azaz district, causing casualties, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground. The injured people were taken to a...

Cilvegözü (Turkey) (AFP) – Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid queue bumper-to-bumper amid the olive groves at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting to be allowed across into war-torn Syria. Inside are baby nappies and blankets, but also 15-kilo (33-pound) bags of flour, bulghur wheat, sugar,...