The Syrian regime released 72 detainees from Daraa in two batches, all of whom were arrested after the regime took control of the southern province in July 2018, the Ahrar Houran Gathering said.   The local monitoring group said that 17 conscripts in the regime forces were released and at...

  The US-led Kurdish forces re-pumped gas from Al-Shaddadi fields in northeastern Hasakah province to Al-Rayyan station in the central Homs region, after a 3-week halt came in response to the regime's siege of Kurdish civilians in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city.  ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Unidentified aircraft struck oil-rich areas in eastern Syria held by government and Iran-aligned groups on Saturday, an opposition war monitor said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were no casualties or material losses in the attack,...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — When the moist concrete walls deep below ground and the mold and the cold and the weeks without fresh fruit or vegetables became too much to bear, some in the bunker underneath Elina Tsybulchenko’s office decided to visit the sky. They made their way, through...

Clashes have erupted between the Fifth Corps, a Russia-backed Syrian military force, and militiamen backed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at the Al-Dar Al-Hamra checkpoint near the southern entrance to the city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs, central Syria, the Syrian...

The Syria Response Coordinators team said that 19 IDP camps for the displaced were damaged due to foolds in the northern countryside of Idlib, and in the western countryside of Aleppo. The relief group indicated that the field teams are trying to reach the affected camps to count the recent...

More than 40,000 Syrian children are out of school as a direct result of British aid cuts and more schools could soon close, a leading charity has said. British funding for 133 schools run by Syria Relief ended on 30 April, as the government cut its total foreign aid spending from its...

The Syrian Center for Journalistic Freedoms has documented the killing of 463 media and press workers in Syria between March 2011 and March 2022. "With the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, the Syrian regime embarked on a systematic campaign with the aim of eliminating any...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has issued its annual report on the most notable violations against media workers in Syria to mark the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, revealing that it documented the deaths of 711 journalists and media workers in Syria since March 2011,...

Damascus (AFP) – Families of prisoners held for years in Syrian jails gathered Wednesday, hoping their loved ones were among the "hundreds" the government said had been released in a mass amnesty. A crowd of hundreds waited in the centre of the capital Damascus, with dozens camping out...

A special source for Zaman al-Wasl uncovered the identities of 3 victims of one family, in the video leaked by the  Guardian  last week, about the massacre of the "Al-Tadamon" neighborhood of Damascus that occurred in 2013.   The video showed members of the Syrian regime...

The Syrian Oil Minister announced a partial breakthrough in the gasoline crisis that the country has suffered in recent days, confirming the arrival of new supplies of crude oil. Bassam Tohma told pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper that the crisis has not completely ended because it is linked to...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led a Congressional delegation to Kyiv to meet with Ukraine's president before heading to Poland for talks with officials there. Pelosi, a California Democrat and second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the...

The International Coalition began Friday new military exercises within one of largest bases in eastern Syria, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.   The US-led forces began the drill with intensive military exercises inside the "Al-Omar" oil field base, east of Deir Ezzor province, in which US...

  A Syrian journalist recounted details of the Tadamon massacre in the southern suburb of Damascus that took place on April 16, 2013, in which 41 civilians were killed, including children and women, before a shocking report by the Guardian days ago.   Matar Ismail, who was...

Hasakah’s main bakery returned to operate on Friday after militants of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) allowed flour and fuel to enter the regime-controlled areas inside the cities of Al-Hasakah and Qamishli in northeastern Syria. Al-Hasakah Governor Ghassan Khalil, after...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria announced Tuesday that he has sent invitations to the Syrian government and the opposition for an eighth round of talks starting in late May, aimed at revising the constitution of the conflict-torn country. Geir Pedersen told the U.N. Security Council that...

An Israeli missile attack on suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus killed four soldiers and wounded three others, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said earlier in the day that the missiles were fired from northern Israel shortly after midnight and that most of them were...

Syria’s Response Coordinators Team confirmed that more than 150 people, mostly children and women, suffered from food poisoning cases in less than 48 hours in six IDP camps in northern Syria. The relief team called on the humanitarian organizations to convert these meals into dry materials...

The clothing and shoe stores across Syria are witnessing an increase in its prices due to the economic conditions in the war-torn country with the advent of Eid al-Fitr. The Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria said the Palestinian refugees complained about the high prices of clothes...