A blast at a jihadist-run arms depot in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region killed two fighters and a civilian Monday, a war monitor said. The explosion blew the warehouse to smithereens and set fire to a nearby field, an AFP correspondent who reached the scene near the town of Fuaa...

Residents of the al Hol camp are suffering from a lack of services amid an outbreak of coronavirus among displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees inside the camp. There have been 19 identified and isolated COVID cases, with two deaths, according to Jaber Mustafa, head of the relations...

 Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court has accepted three applications out of 51 for candidacy for this month’s presidential elections in the war-torn country, state media reported Monday. The largely symbolic election is certain to be won by President Bashar Assad, who was chosen along...

At least two civilians were killed and four more wounded on Sunday by a bomb hidden in motorbike in northeastern Raqqa province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   The booby-trapped motorbike exploded in the industrial zone of the town of Soluk which is controlled by US-backed Kurdish...

Two Syrian regime forces were killed in separate attacks by rebel groups in northern Idlib province.   Al-Fateh al-Mubeen's operation room said its fighters had killed an army officer and one soldier in separate attacks in Kafranbel town and near the M4 highway.   In its turn, the...

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its report released today that it documented at least 147 cases of arbitrary arrest/ detention in Syria in April 2021, including one child and 19 women, noting that arrests/ detentions and enforced disappearances continue, and that...

A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the first to receive a U.N.-secured jab. Nizar Fattouh, a nurse in Ibn Sina Hospital in Idlib city, received one of 53,800 AstraZeneca vaccines delivered...

Syria's Bashar Assad issued a decree Sunday granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed before May 2, state news agency SANA said. SANA did not give a reason for the amnesty but it came days before Muslims celebrate Eid el-Fitr, the feast that marks...

Turkish and Russian forces carried out a joint patrol for a record distance in northern Syria as part of the understandings concluded between the two sides. On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces and their Turkish counterparts carried out a joint patrol for over...

 Kurdish YPG militia targeted civilians in a rocket attack killing a child in a field in northern Afrin, Turkey's Defense Ministry said Sunday. The statement said that the terrorist group targeted innocent civilians working in the field by launching eight rocket attacks. While...

Palestinian refugees in Syria have been subjected to serious violations and abuses as a result of their targeting of all kinds of lethal and internationally prohibited weapons such as napalm, cluster bombs and barrel bombs, rights monitoring group said Saturday.   The Action...

Atletico Madrid were given a huge let-off on Saturday as Elche missed a 91st-minute penalty, allowing the La Liga leaders to escape with a 1-0 win and go five points clear at the top of the table. Elche's Fidel Chaves struck the post with his injury-time spot-kick in what could prove a...

At least four pro-regime fighters were killed by unknown assailants in southern Quneitra province on Friday, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. The attack took place in Umm Batneh town where Syrian regime forces and allied Hezbollah militia are deployed near the Occupied Golan...

Turkish Border guards detected a tunnel dug from Syria to Turkey, said the country’s National Defense Ministry on Saturday. “Thanks to the vigilance of our heroic border guards in [the southern] Hatay province, it was found that a tunnel was dug from Syria to Turkey,” the ministry said...

The rate of assassinations and arrests in southern Daraa province has increased since April, amid security chaos following a reconciliation deal between the Syrian forces and opposition factions three years ago. Ahrar Horan, local monitoring group, said Saturday that at least 58 people,...

A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria's last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the first to receive a United Nations-secured jab.   Nizar Fattouh, a nurse in Ibn Sina Hospital in Idlib city, received one of 53,800...

Uzbekistan on Friday brought back 24 women and 69 children who had been staying at the Al-Hol camp in Syria with other families of Islamic State fighters, the Central Asian nation's government said, its fifth airlift of this kind.

The number of children attempting or committing suicide in northwest Syria has risen sharply over the past year, with almost one in five of all recorded suicide cases involving adolescents, Save the Children said on Thursday. Deaths by suicide increased by 86 percent in the last three months...

An unidentified aircraft has reportedly bombarded a base belonging to Turkish military forces in Syria’s northern province of Raqqah as the troops are conducting a military campaign in the area against US-sponsored Kurdish militants from the so-called People's Protection Units (YPG)....

Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria announced Thursday they will extend a partial lockdown for another week amid a surge in coronavirus cases. The extension comes as an international aid group warned of oxygen shortages in the neglected region of the war-ravaged country....