Armed groups in the area of northern Syria controlled by Turkey may have committed war crimes and other violations of international law, the UN rights chief said Friday. Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the situation in those areas of Syria was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Father of the 3-year-old Asyaf, who was born with congenital amputation in Atmeh refugee camps, has appealed to the Turkish President and authorities to install prosthetic and arms limbs to his displaced son in Turkey. The plea came just three weeks after a similar case...

A Damascus-based network reported new details about the August-31 Israeli strikes on Iranian weapons depots near the Damascus International Airport and on Al-Hejana military base on the outskirts of the village of the same name. According to a security source, the first raid that...

The Netherlands is preparing a case against Syria at the UN's highest court, seeking to hold the government of President Bashar al-Assad accountable for human rights violations, including torture and the use of chemical weapons, the Dutch foreign minister told parliament Friday. Syria has...

Syria’s oil minister claimed the severe fuel crisis that has hit his country is the result of Western sanctions, and also allegedly because oil fields in eastern regions have fallen under control of American troops and U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters. The minister, Bassam Tomeh told...

Almost 860 health care workers were killed and over 3,350 were detained or forcibly disappeared since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, a local NGO said on Thursday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the killing of 857 health workers, including 652 killed by...

  Turkish forces killed a jihadist woman who tried to blew herself up at a Turkish observation point, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The Turkish forces stationed in “Tala’e Al-Ba’ath Camp” in Al-Mastumah area, on the road between Idlib city and...

The US army denied media reports claiming that one of its helicopters had crashed in northern Syria, Anadolu news agency reported. The army said in a statement that the helicopter had “landed safely and was not shot down by any hostile activity.” According to the statement, the...

The UK has rescued a British child from Syria as part of efforts to return unaccompanied minors stranded amid the fallout of the Islamic State conflict. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said repatriating the child was "the right thing to do". He said each case of orphans or...

The UN on Wednesday dispatched six trucks with humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, where millions of people remain in need of assistance due to internal conflict. The trucks crossed over into Syria’s Idlib province from the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province....

Turkish security forces fended off an attack in the Idlib de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, the country's National Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement that groups directed by the Bashar al-Assad regime but disguised as civilians approached several...

A meeting between Turkish and Russian military delegations will be held at Turkey’s National Defense Ministry in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday. According to the ministry, during the meeting, developments in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, and the current situation on the...

U.N.-backed investigators pointed Tuesday to signs that Syria’s government continues to perpetrate rape, torture and murder as the country’s nine-year conflict grinds on, while citing possible war crimes by a Turkey-backed coalition of rebel groups and calling on Ankara to do more to help...

Turkey must rein in Syrian rebels it supports in northern Syria who may have carried out kidnappings, torture and looting of civilian property, United Nations war crimes investigators said on Tuesday. The panel also said transfers of Syrian nationals detained by the opposition Syrian...

UN-backed investigators pointed Tuesday to signs that Syria’s government continues to perpetrate rape, torture and murder as the country’s nine-year conflict grinds on, while citing possible war crimes by a Turkey-backed coalition of rebel groups and calling on Ankara to do more to help prevent...

At least nine people were killed and 43 injured in a terror blast in northwestern Syria on Monday, according to the governor's office of Turkey’s southern Hatay province. An explosives-laden small truck went off in the opposition-held city of Afrin, Anadolu Agency earlier learned from...

Turkish and Russian officials will meet in Ankara this week for a new round of talks on developments in Syria and Libya, where the two countries back opposing sides, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “Consultations between Turkish and Russian interagency delegations on Libya and...

An aid worker from Turkey's Red Crescent was killed and another was wounded after masked assailants attacked the group's vehicle near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, the aid agency said in a statement Monday. It said the attack took place between al-Bab and the Turkish border town of...

 Suspected Israeli air strikes in eastern Syria Monday killed 10 pro-Iran fighters, most of them Iraqis, a war monitor said. The raids against militant positions south of the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province took the lives of eight Iraqi and two Syrian combatants, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local archeologists have warned against the use of black cement in the restoration of archeological sites in northeastern Raqqa province. Omar al-Buniya, a journalist and expert in archeology, expressed his concerns about the restoration of Qasr al-Banat and the Ancient...