The Russian military said Monday that its airstrike killed about 200 militants in eastern Syria. Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, the head of the Russian military's Reconciliation Center in Syria, said Russian warplanes hit two militant hideouts northeast of Palmyra. Karpov said in a...

Each year, on the anniversary of the Clock Tower square sit-in in central Homs city, the memories of the massacre that followed fade away. Back then, the Syrian regime chose fire and gunpowder to suppress the peaceful protests with Shabiha militants infiltrating the ranks of the demonstrators,...

Zaman Al-Wasl will suspend publishing for an hour on Tuesday (between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Damascus time) in mourning for the veteran Michel Kilo who died of COVID-19 in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against the Assad regime.  Kilo, who turned 80 last year,...

Syria's currency rose on Sunday in the first day of trading after the central bank raised the official price to attract foreign transfers and capital inflows from Syrian expatriates away from the black market, dealers said. They said the pound was trading around 2,990 to the dollar on...

The Russian-backed Fifth Corps forces on Sunday have dispatched military reinforcements to the Badia desert amid a surge in Daesh attacks in central Syria. Zaman al-Wasl sources said a military convoy moved from regime-held areas in northern Idlib province towards the town of...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Sunday handed over 34 orphaned children, whose parents were suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group, to a Russian delegation to be repatriated. An AFP correspondent in the city of Qamishli said the children aged between three and 14...

Syria’s parliament speaker announced Sunday that presidential elections in the war-ravaged country will be held May 26. Speaker Hammoud Sabbagh said the window for nominations will be open for 10 days starting Monday. Syrians abroad will vote May 20, he said. The election is...

A Daesh-linked news outlet said Saturday that two Russian forces were killed by the Islamic State militants in the Badia desert in central Syria. Amaq news agency said several Russian soldiers were also wounded in a clash erupted in al-Sukhna town in the eastern countryside of Homs...

Well-informed sources warned that the personal safety of the former education minister in the opposition’s interim government is in danger, echoing fears of being subjected to the same fate of prominent rights activist Razan Zaitouna, who went missing in Douma city north of the capital in...

Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, has put forth a draft agreement designed to promote progress at the next round of talks on Syria’s constitution in Geneva. Copies of the proposed plan were sent to the two co-chairs of the Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC), Ahmad Kuzbari, who...

Two Liwa al-Quds militants were killed in an ambush by Daesh in the Badia desert, the second ambush of its kind in four days targeting pro-Syrian regime Palestinian militia in eastern Syria, sources said Friday.   The attack took place in the Kabajeb desert area east of Deir Ezzor...

Members of the US Congress have urged the Biden administration to implement all provisions of the Caesar Act to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its allies. During a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Global...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed on Thursday that the Syrian regime has dropped nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in nine years, killing 11,087 civilians, including 1,821 children.   The 35-page report describes barrel bombs as a primitive, barbaric weapon, adding that...

Syria devalued the official price of its local currency on Thursday two days after the central bank governor was sacked, state media reported. The decision came after the Syrian pound crashed over the recent months in the war-torn country, hitting records low and throwing more Syrians...

Four people were killed and another 17 wounded in a car bomb attack on Thursday in the sprawling Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical sources said. The car was parked at a busy second-hand equipment market in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim district, police said. An...

Dr. Hoda Al-Absi, Minister of Education in the Syrian opposition’s Interim Government, announced her resignation on Wednesday. Al-Absi told Zaman Al Wasl that the past period was “full of frustration.” She directed her statement to “Free Syrians”, which she described as “the...

The remains of Khaled al-Assaad, a Syrian archaeologist beheaded by Islamic State group jihadists, have yet to be recovered, his son told AFP on Wednesday. The official SANA news agency reported in February that authorities had uncovered three corpses in Kahloul, 10 kilometres (six...

Kurdish officials in northeast Syria are expressing concerns over a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in their region, calling on international health organizations to intervene to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.”   A 10-day curfew went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to...

Three tankers loaded with crude oil docked at the port of Baniyas in Tartus province, which would cover the local market’s needs of gasoline, diesel and fuel for nearly two months, State-run Al-Baath newspaper said Wednesday. The newspaper of the ruling party quoted an official source...

Health Directorate in the Turkish-held region of Ras al-Ain has recorded 24 coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a new wave of the pandemic in northeast Syria A medical source told Zaman al-Wasl than 24 people were tested positive for COVID-19. Five of them were admitted to the main...