A decade of war in Syria has left nearly half a million people dead, a war monitor said Tuesday, in a new toll that includes 100,000 recently confirmed deaths. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the conflict has claimed 494,438 lives since it erupted in 2011 with...

Dozens of medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria on Monday protested a decision to grant President Bashar Assad's government a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization. They said Assad is responsible for bombing hospitals and clinics across the war-ravaged country....

Syrian tribal leaders based in Turkey are calling out Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces over the killing of young tribesmen at the hands of the SDF in demonstrations against the increase of fuel prices.  Major Arab tribes in northeastern Syria recently issued an ultimatum for...

  Bodies of 13 Syrian army forces were found Saturday in the Syrian desert, two days after a group of 30 troops went missing in an area controlled by the Islamic State militants, local news site said Sunday.   Al-Sharqiya24 Network said the bodies of slain troops were found near the...

Syrian regime forces and allied militias have deliberately intensified artillery and missile bombardment on agricultural areas in rebel-held northwestern Syria, setting huge fires to wheat and barley crops, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.    The regime forces stationed in the...

Bashar al-Assad has appointed Mohamed Khaled Nasri as a Director General of the Center for Scientific Studies and Research, succeeding Amr Armanazi who held the post for 22 years.   Nasri, who ran the Institute 1000 in the scientific research center, is considered as one the...

Syria’s regime government on Saturday appointed a new  director for customs, following an anti-corruption campaign and a series of terminations for senior officials within the Finance Ministry.   Prime Minister Hussein Arnous assigned Majed Omran as the director general of customs,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three rebel factions operating in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army have merged on Friday, seeking to close ranks and form a unified military body.   The Sultan Mohamed Al-Fateh Division, Samarkand Brigade, and Al-Waqqas Brigade will be united under the...

 Syria’s response coordinators team said Friday that Bashar al-Assad’s regime and key ally Russia have launched more than 6 military campaigns in northwestern Syria since Sochi ceasefire reached in 2018 where about half of the population has been displaced, most of whom live in ...

A burial mound in northern Syria has been identified by researchers as perhaps the world’s oldest known war memorial. The site, known as the White Monument, in the town of Tal Banat had previously been thought to be an ancient mass grave of enemy fighters. However, a report published in the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to repatriate more than 160 Nordic nationals, most of whom are children, from northeast Syria. As many as 30 Danes, 22 Finns, 37 Norwegians, and 65 to 75 Swedes are being detained in camps and makeshift prisons in the...

Syrians in government-held areas of the war-torn country headed to polling stations early Wednesday to vote in a presidential election guaranteed to give President Bashar Assad a fourth seven-year term. The vote is the second presidential election since the country's conflict began 10 years...

With presidential elections approaching on May 26, 2021 state media have broadcast demonstrations supporting the re-election of Bashar al Assad. While we believe that there is a class of citizens who benefit politically, economically and religiously from the continuation of the current...

Polling stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election where few doubt that Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term, in a war-battered country mired in economic crisis. The controversial vote is the second election since the start of a decade-long...

 Nearly a dozen buses carrying 100 Iraqi families who lived in a sprawling Syrian camp for supporters and families of Islamic State militants returned to Iraq on Tuesday, where public opinion is divided about their return. The families include women, children and men, according to...

The Russian military said Tuesday it has deployed three nuclear-capable long-range bombers to its base in Syria, a move that could strengthen Moscow's military foothold in the Mediterranean. Russia's Defense Ministry said that three Tu-22M3 bombers have arrived at the Hemeimeem air...

Around 7.5 million Syrian children and adolescents are currently in need of support due to conflict, with more than half showing signs of mental and emotional distress (UNHCR). Though many refugees show immense resilience in the face of these challenges, we also know that far too many children...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Nine years ago, the Syrian regime forces and allied militias slaughtered 107 civilians, including 49 children and 32 women in central Homs province.     After the Asr Prayer on Friday 25 May 2012, residents heard that the regime was going to storm the...

 Syria’s foreign minister blamed Israel for mysterious attacks over more than a year targeting oil tankers heading to Syria, saying they violate international law and will not go unpunished. Faisal Mekdad told Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV in an interview aired late Sunday that oil...

At least 10O COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections to 22,828,  Early Warning Network said Tuesday.   Infections have risen in northwestern Syria, portending a new surge. Over 22,800 infections and...