A child was killed in regime artillery shelling of civilian areas Friday in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.  The group said regime attacks killed a four-year-old girl when the regime targeted the city center of Ariha...

Turkey has transferred conjoined twins from the Syrian town of Afrin to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk University Hospital in the Hatay province of southern Turkey to separate them, Anadolu Agency reported. The agency disclosed that the Syrian babies were born eight days ago in Afrin, weighing 4.2...

The US is reportedly seeking to reduce and eliminate the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria, according to Special Representative for Syria Engagement Ambassador James Jeffrey. Speaking in an interview with the news outlet Syria Direct earlier this week, Jeffrey...

Pro-Syrian regime media outlets circulated rumors that the United Arab Emirates has banned issuing tourist visas to Syrians, which sparked confusion among the lack of clarification or any official announcements from the UAE. Loyalist media sites turned to Emirati travel agencies for...

Under the elegant arches and domes of an Ottoman-era compound, Joseph Tobjian displays his aromatic Aleppo soap at a trade fair designed to revive Syria's exports-starved arts and crafts. The soap maker is among more than 130 merchants taking part in the state-sponsored fair in Damascus for...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said billions of dollars of deposits held by his countrymen in Lebanon's financial sector that were blocked after a major financial crisis were a main cause of Syria's deepening economic crisis. Lebanese banks, fearing capital flight and grappling with an...

Two prisoners in the Central Prison of southern Sweida province died of poisoning after the prison administration failed to transport them to the hospital, according to a local news site. The Sweida24 said that the two young men, Nawras Hani Muzher and Firas Mahmoud Ghallab, died in...

The number of Syrians committing suicide significantly increased in 2020; both in areas controlled by the regime and the opposition, Arabic Post news site reported. The site quoted reports from human rights organisations, relief groups and government bodies which all attribute the increase...

Seven civilians were killed and 13 others injured in regime artillery shelling of civilian areas on Wednesday in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. The White Helmets said regime attacks left four civilians dead in Ariha city, two in...

Syrian regime on Wednesday shelled the last rebel last enclave in the country’s northwest, killing at least seven people, including four children, rescuers and activists reported. An international humanitarian organization, World Vision, gave a higher death toll, saying eight people —...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran-backed militants have killed 14 civilians, including four women and a child, in a desert area in the central province of Homs, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said Tuesday.   Eight more people were wounded in the attack on the al-Umour area in the eastern countryside of...

At least 472 people have been tested positive for novel coronavirus  in rebel-held areas in northern Syria , the Epidemiological Surveillance Laboratory said Tuesday. The positive cases toll has reached a total of 6,535 in northwestern Syria. The laboratory has also...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented the deaths of 167 civilians, including 77 children, who have died due to the cold in Syria since March 2011.   The five-page report states that nearly 689,000 persons have been displaced in northwest Syria in the last month...

German police are investigating a Syrian satirist who filmed a video in a Berlin street in which, dressed in an Arab robe and turban, he flogged a handcuffed man wearing a mask depicting French President Emmanuel Macron. The video also showed Fayez Kanfash dragging the Macron character on a...

 Syrian President Bashar Assad met Thursday with a high-level Russian delegation advocating for jointly hosting an international conference on refugees in the capital Damascus next month. Western nations and many of the more than 5.6 million Syrian refugees are against an international...

A local network reported that, since the beginning of this year, 77 “settlement” volunteers in the loyalist militias and regime soldiers from the eastern and western countryside of Damascus, have been killed in the fighting in northern Syria. The “Sawt al Asima” network said that the past...

The Syrian regime has recorded four new cases of the novel coronavirus in a school in the southern province of Sweida. The regime’s Health Directorate in Sweida confirmed in a post on its Facebook page the four infected tenth grade students from Kamal Obaid high school after coming in...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey had the legitimate right to act again if militants are not cleared from its border with Syria, where it has carried out several incursions in the last four years. “If the terrorists here are not cleared as we were promised, we have...

The United States and several Western allies Tuesday accused the Syrian government of deliberately delaying the drafting of a new constitution to waste time until presidential elections in 2021, and avoid UN-supervised voting as called for by the UN Security Council. US deputy ambassador...

A UN envoy acknowledged Tuesday that a new meeting aimed at winding down Syria's civil war would not happen as planned this month but voiced hope it would take place in November. Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria, said after a trip to Damascus that there had been no accord on...