Russia has withdrawn forces from controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. The Russian military units withdrew from outposts in Tal Rifaat, Sherawa, Kashtar, Tanb, Tal Ajjar and Menagh air base north...

Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria’s Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement or give a reason for Karfoul’s dismissal. Syria’s economy has been decimated by the...

A 10-day curfew in areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in northeast Syria went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to try limit the spread of coronavirus in the region that borders Turkey and Iraq. Northeast Syria witnessed a sharp increase of coronavirus cases in recent weeks...

Syria's Electricity Ministry on Monday has estimated the damage in the electrical system over the past ten years at 3000 Trillion Syrian Pounds, ($2.4 billion). The capacity of the generating sets that were destroyed or causing great damage to them in the various stations is estimated...

The global chemical weapons watchdog has "reasonable grounds to believe" that Syria's air force dropped a chlorine bomb on a residential neighbourhood in the rebel-controlled Idlib region in February 2018, a report released on Monday said. There was no immediate comment from the Syrian...

The Syrian Central Bank has applied new measure to combat black exchange market by selling US dollar to traders and importers at a slightly lower rate, seeking for a complete control on the exchange market players. The regime fixed the price of dollar used to finance imports at 3,375...

Three pro-Syrian regime militants were killed in an ambush by Daesh (ISIS) in the Badia desert in central Homs province, local sources said Monday. The ambush targeted the Palestinian Liwa al-Qusd militia near al-Sukhna town in the eastern countryside of Homs.   ...

Syria has been labeled one of the worst countries in the world in terms of the number of mines planted since the war broke out in 2011, with more than 12,000 killed in mine and explosive accidents. Syria has become one of the worst countries in the world in terms of the number of mines...

The Turkish diplomat heading the UN General Assembly said on Saturday that the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever seen after the World War II is being experienced in Syria, Anadolu Agency reported. Volkan Bozkir, accompanied by the UN officials, inspected the UN Transfer Area...

  Three intelligence officers were killed Friday in an ambush set up by unknown assailants in southern Daraa province, local observatory said. The ambush targeted officers in the Political Security near Ghabageb town in the northern countryside of Daraa, said Ahrar Horan...

The Action Group for Palestinians said Thursday that COVID-19 pandemic has increased the suffering of Palestinians living in Syria. The Britain-based monitoring group shed the light on the deteriorating living conditions in the Palestinian camps which already in dire need...

The man who has led Daesh/ISIS following the 2019 death of its founder is a former prisoner who helped the US eliminate his rivals in the terror group's previous organization, according to a report published on Thursday. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the man identified as the new...

 Syrian authorities are unlawfully confiscating the homes and lands of Syrians who fled Syrian-Russian military attacks in Idlib and Hama governorates, Human Rights Watch said today. A pro-government militia and the government-controlled “Peasants’ Unions” were involved in seizing...

Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the devastating Syrian regime chemical attack in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, which left 39 civilians dead including many women and children.  Protesters gathered in the centre of Idlib, northwestern Syria, to remember the victims and call for...

Read  Michel Kilo's last message to the Syrian people from his sickbed on April 7. Prominent exiled opposition figure Michel Kilo died of Covid-19 on Monday in Paris after a lifetime of peaceful struggle against Baath party rule in Syria, colleagues said....

They are boisterous, argumentative and at times downright hilarious. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Arab world are turning to Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio chat app, to mock and vent against longtime rulers, debate sensitive issues from abortion to sexual harassment, or...

At least seven civilians, including three children and two children, were killed with two children severely injured in an attack by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in northwestern Idlib province, sources said on Thursday. The missile attack targeted a moving vehicle carrying civilians in...

At least three Hezbollah militants and two elite Syrian forces were killed in the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus early Thursday, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Six more forces operating in the Fourth Mechanical Division were wounded in the missile attack on Jamraya district near...

Israel carried out a missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs early Thursday that wounded four soldiers, Syria’s state media said. State news agency, SANA, quoted an unidentified military official as saying that Syrian air defenses were able to shoot...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has phoned Syria's Bashar al-Assad to discuss the demarcation of Lebanon-Syria maritime borders, according to Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe. The move came after the Syrian regime offered a Russian oil company the right to conduct oil...