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Despite the worsening humanitarian situation across war-ravaged Syria, it's been getting tougher every year to raise money from global donors. The aid community is bracing for significant shortfalls ahead of a donor conference that starts Monday in Brussels and is being co-hosted by the...
Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...
At age 19, Fatima al-Omar is at her wits' end. In the last year alone, she lost her home to fighting in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She became the sole breadwinner for her mother, three siblings and grandmother as they moved around between shelters....
Lebanese group Hezbollah has provided military training to 220 pro-Assad regime Shabiha militants in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, according to local sources. A three-week training camp was organized by two Hezbollah commanders codenamed al-Hajj Mahdi and al-Hajj Salih, said the sources...
Along Iraq's borders, a corrupt customs-evasion cartel is diverting billions of dollars away from state coffers to line the pockets of armed groups, political parties and crooked officials. The prime beneficiaries are Iran-linked Shiite paramilitaries that intimidate federal officials...
Syrian actors in the rebel-held province of Idlib are using their talent to highlight the pain and suffering endured by the hundreds of their fellow citizens detained in the regime's prisons, Anadolu news agency has reported. The project in question is part of a bid to help release the...
An Iranian cargo plane arrived in Damascus International Airport late on Sunday, loaded with weapons, ammunition and missiles, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The plane's landing coincided with the mobilization of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia inside and...
An improvised explosive device went out in the turkish-held town of Ras al-Ayn north of Hasakah city, leaving three people wounded, local activists said Monday. A local source told Zaman al-Wasl that the IED attack caused some material damage to shops and a car parked in the...
Family of a 50-day-old baby girl who suffers a cerebral hemorrhage caused coma, has appealed to the Turkish authorities to immediately admit Sham in hospital to save her life. Sham were admitted in the National Hospital of Azaz town near the Turkish border two weeks ago....
The Syrian ordeal on all psychological, social and economic aspects has led some Palestinian youths to end their lives in one way or another since the uprising erupted tens years ago, a Palestinian monitoring group said Saturday. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) said...
Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...
Eqtsad)- The popular dishes in the Syrian capital are no longer included in the budget of the poor, who now constitute 80 percent of the population due to the low incomes in front of the exorbitant costs that these foods require. In light of the rocket-high prices that include...
The European Union-United Nations sponsored aid conference for Syria on March 29-30, 2021, should prioritize a rights-respecting aid framework that advances urgent protection, humanitarian, and accountability needs, Human Rights Watch said Sunday. The fifth conference on...
Online taxi booking apps, which recently have been widespread across Syria, helped launch a phenomenon of women-only taxi with services provided by women for women. The idea has recently reached the central city of Homs, despite the poverty that overcame its residents for years....
The giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal is forcing Syria to begin rationing its distribution of fuel as shipments are expected to be delayed, the war-torn nation's Oil Ministry said Saturday. A giant container ship remained stuck sideways, blocking the Suez Canal for a fifth...
Syrian army's Fourth Division on Saturday sent reinforcements to the central Homs province amid an unprecedented rise in the Islmaic State attacks in the Syrian desert, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The military convoy of the elite Fourth Division left early Saturday the town of Qalaat...
The Syrian National Army has arrested ten people operating for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Aleppo province, such a move follows a series of bomb attacks hit the opposition areas. The Third Corps in the National Army released a video recording that includes...
The UN has urged the UK not to go ahead with expected significant cuts in aid to Syria next week, warning that the move could further destabilise the wartorn country and backfire on Britons. The warning from the UN’s chief humanitarian coordinator, Mark Lowcock, comes before a...
The Iraqi army on Thursday said it was redeploying and repositioning troops along the Syrian border in the country's northeast. The move comes a day after the country launched a major operation against remnants of Islamic State group in Makhmour district of Nineveh governorate....
The talk of Syrians offering their bodies for sale in order to secure their livelihood is no longer just a rumor as a local radio station received a call from a number of people confirming that they are in fact selling their kidneys and urging buyers to hurry and take advantage of the...
