Kidnappers in southern Syria have released a boy they had held for over three months after his family paid ransom, state media reported Sunday. The case of eight-year-old Fawaz Quteifan shocked Syrians for weeks after his kidnappers released a video showing him screaming while being whipped...

  Infighting between Turkish-allied factions in the northern Syrian city of Afrin has left one fighter killed and another wounded, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday.   The clash took place between Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Hamza Division in Korkan village near Afrin...

Six people from the same family including two children were killed in a Syrian military artillery strike on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria on Saturday, opposition activists said. Residents said the family was outside their house enjoying sunny weather and drinking tea when the shell...

Daesh is a growing threat to northeast Syria, and the group will again flourish unless immediate action is taken, the Kurdish-led region’s security chief said in the wake of last month’s deadly prison attack. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, said...

Hundreds took to the streets of a southern Syrian city on Friday to demand better living conditions and democracy in a rare protest inside regime-held areas, a war monitor said. More than 300 protesters, gathering for a fifth consecutive day in Sweida after authorities cut off 600,000...

A building collapse in northwest Syria has killed a woman and three of her children, while her husband and three other children survived, the opposition Syrian Civil Defence group said. The collapse of the building on Wednesday night on the southern edge of the city of Idlib came as...

Four people have been caught in the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin, along with suicide vests and kilos of C4 explosives, Turkish police said on Wednesday. In a statement, the General Directorate of Security said that intelligence forces of the Syria Task Force in Afrin, working in...

At least one child has been killed and three injured by the Asayish, the Syrian Kurdish Autonomous Administration’s police force, who opened fire in al-Hol camp yesterday, Amnesty International has confirmed. Three women were injured as well. The Asayish, which controls the sprawling camp in...

A Syrian soldier was killed and five others were wounded in an Israeli attack near the capital Damascus, Syrian state media said. The Israeli military said it attacked targets in Syria shortly after an anti-aircraft missile was fired from the Arab country into northern Israel early...

A U.S. military convoy was seen driving and stopping near the Gweiran Prison in Hassakeh in northeastern Syria on Tuesday. A U.S. Chinook helicopter was also seen landing near the prison by the time the convoy was stopping. The prison was the focus of a furious battle recently between...

DUBAI: Fawaz Qetaifan, a six-year-old Syrian boy who was kidnapped on his way to school in Daraa four months ago, could be returned to his parents in the coming hours or days after his family raised the ransom to secure his release, sources have told Arab News. “It seems that the issue will...

Residents in  southern Sweida province took to the streets for the second day demonstrating against collapsing living standards and corruption, local activists said Monday. Pictures released on social media appeared to show locals from the southern province burning tyres and...

Children held in a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants are living in “incredibly precarious” conditions and they should not have been there in the first place, the U.N. children’s agency said Sunday....

Relying on his own efforts, with modest equipment and humble costs, Mahmoud Jouha succeeded in cultivating domestic mushroom in the opposition-held region of Afrin, northwest of Aleppo, defying displacement hardships and making good income. Like hundreds of thousands of Syrian displaced,...

Weeks after the long, furious battle with militants from the Islamic State group over a prison in northwestern Syria, the mangled wreckage of a car used by suicide bombers still sat outside its perimeter. Cranes put in place new cement blast walls to close off the entrance. Gaping holes...

Hundreds of boys are missing from a Syrian Kurdish prison that held members of the Islamic State group and their families, after the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fought IS militants for 10 days to retake the facility, an international human rights group said Friday. The report by Human Rights...

At least nine people were killed on Wednesday afternoon by shelling of the US-backed Kurdish fighters in the northern town of al-Bab, according to opposition activists. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said nine died and 31 were wounded in the town that controlled by Turkey-backed opposition forces....

Two children died overnight, including a seven-day-old baby, in tented displacement camps in Syria’s Idlib province due to severe cold weather, drawing attention to the dire humanitarian condition in the region. “When I touched her, she felt like ice,” Mohamad Al-Hassan told Al Jazeera. His...

In its report released Monday on the most notable Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS) violations since the establishment of Jabhat al Nusra to date, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reveals that Hay’at Tahrir al Sham continues to commit multiple types of human rights violations, mainly in...

As winter sets in, Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war have no other option but to burn their clothes to stay warm in the camps. In the northwestern province of Idlib, where most internally displaced Syrian reside, strong winds have uprooted many tents. At night, the children get...