Dr. Fayez Al-Khalif, Minister of Higher Education in the opposition's Salvation Government, was found dead on Wednesday in the western countryside of Aleppo province after he went missing last week.
Daesh on Tuesday abducted 19 people, mostly civilians, in the centre of war-torn Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The extremists attacked regime forces in the Badia desert, before kidnapping eight policemen and 11 civilians from a small village....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The General Security in Turkish-held Afrin city in northwestern Syria has seized 128,000 pills of the drug Captagon, said in a statement issued Monday. The Anti-Drug and Smuggling said Tuesday that the drug pills were hidden inside Olive containers equipped for...
The Opposition's Health Directorate in northern Afrin city warned of a new wave of the COVID-19 infections amid pandemic spread in Turkish-held areas in northern Syria. The directorate, in cooperation with the military police, imposed on Monday a complete quarantine on the village...
Dialogue between Kurdish parties in Syria has returned to square one after US-backed talks failing to achieve any form of political consensus among the rivals of the largest ethnic minority in the war-torn country. The US deputy Special Envoy to Syria, for his part, has called on...
Syrian Christians gathered Sunday in a church in Damascus amidst a second Easter under coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Church goers wore masks and attempted to social distance in one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year. Jimmy Babek, a scout at Our Lady of Damascus,...
The bodies of three sisters missing in Lebanon have washed up on a Syrian beach and a probe is underway to determine how they drowned, a Lebanese security official said Sunday. The sisters went missing from a village in northern Lebanon on Monday, said the official, adding that Syrian...
A local monitoring group said Saturday that Syrian regime and Russia’s airstrikes have bombed out of service at least 430 schools in southern Daraa province between 2013 and 2018. Ahrar Horan Gathering said the airstrikes conducted by Syrian regime and the Russian Air Force...
Primary schools around Syria will close down indefinitely next week amid a severe increase of coronavirus cases in the war-torn country, while universities will suspend classes for only two weeks and high schools will remain open, the government announced Saturday. Education...
COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in Syria within days from China, Russia and the World Health Organisation, the prime minister said, according to state news agency SANA. The vaccines will be administered "according to a clear system", the report said without giving further details.
The crackdown on Islamic State operations at the al-Hol displaced persons camp in northeastern Syria appears to be loosening the terror group’s grip on the sprawling facility. Six days into the two-week-long operation, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces say they have...
The UN on Thursday dispatched 29 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. The trucks crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among the needy people in Idlib and...
At least 160 displaced families live under harsh living conditions with no aid or care in the Ya’rub camp in Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Raqqa province, a local news site said Friday. The Ein Al-Furat network said that, similar to a few months ago, aid was once again delayed,...
Four regime forces were killed in two land-mine explosions planted by Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Raqqa province, a local reporter said Thursday. The explosion of two land mines rocked two military vehicles of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps in the Mount Bishri in Raqqa...
One person was injured by an improvised explosive device in the Turkish-held city of Afrin, a local reporter said Thursday. The attack follows a series of Kurdish YPG escalations against Turkish army and allied Syrian forces. No more casualties have been reported by the...
Syria’s Kurdish-led forces arrested 71 suspected militants, including a religious leader and a militant recruiter, in an ongoing security sweep at a sprawling camp that houses families and supporters of the Islamic State group, a spokesman said Wednesday. The campaign, which started...
The Syrian Tribes Council will hold the general conference on April 6 in the Turkish-held Ras Al-Ain region in northern Hasaka province, spokesman Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. Mazhar Hammad Al-Asaad said 2500 tribal figures will be invited to the conference to commemorate...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union, the U.S. and dozens of other nations pledged $6.4 billion in aid Tuesday to help tackle war-ravaged Syria's deepening humanitarian and economic crises and assist neighboring countries hosting refugees, coming up short of the $10 billion the U.N. had hoped...
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Experts boarded the massive container ship Tuesday that had blocked Egypt's vital Suez Canal and disrupted global trade for nearly a week, seeking answers to a single question that could have billions of dollars in legal repercussions: What went wrong? As convoys of...
The United Nations will urge international donors to pledge up to $10 billion on Tuesday to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the need for humanitarian support has never been so great. In the fifth annual conference to keep...
