A Syrian woman was killed and her baby child wounded  Wednesday due to crossfire between Turkish-backed factions in northern Afrin city. According to Zaman al-Wasl correspondent, heavy clashes erupted on Wednesday evening between rebel groups operating in the Jaish al-Sharqiya...

Turkish and Russian troops on Wednesday held their 22nd joint patrol along the key M4 highway in Idlib, northwestern Syria, said Turkey's National Defense Ministry. “According to the Turkey-Russian Federation Agreement/Protocol; 22nd TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib,...

The UN on Wednesday sent nine truckloads of humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict. The trucks carrying supplies entered Idlib province through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s south. The aid will be...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkish forces, which have carried out several incursions into northern Syria since 2016, would remain in the country until Syrians can live in freedom and safety. “Nowadays they are holding an election, a so-called election,” Erdogan said...

Syria's ruling Baath party and its allies have won a majority in parliamentary elections, results announced Tuesday by the electoral commission showed. President Bashar al-Assad's party and allies took 177 seats out of 250 in Sunday's polls, the third such elections since the start of the...

Two civilians lost their lives in an attack carried out by forces of the Bashar al-Assad regime and its supporters in Syria's al-Bab subdistrict. Regime forces and supporters targeted Barata village in western al-Bab subdistrict with four Grad rockets. Two civilians were killed and two...

Vote counting was under way Tuesday in Syria after reruns in five polling stations delayed the results of parliamentary polls guaranteed to renew the ruling party's hegemony. The reruns of Sunday's vote were held Monday in four polling centers in Aleppo province and one in the eastern...

The Syrian military said the country's air defenses responded Monday to Israeli air raids in south Damascus that wounded seven soldiers and caused material damage, and residents said loud explosions rocked the capital. It was not clear what the targets were. The air raids, which came just...

Iraqi Kurdish authorities Monday denied handing over to Turkey the niece of an influential Syrian Kurdish official wanted by Ankara, as claimed by her family. The interior ministry in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region dismissed the accusation from the family of Dalia Mahmoud...

 Three Syrian doctors were tested positive for coronavirus in Damascus, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University said Wednesday. Dr. Naboug Al-Awa said the three cases were recorded among the internship doctors in the university hospital. In the...

At least five civilians were killed and 85 injured on Sunday in a bomb attack in northwestern Syria. The casualties occurred when an explosives-laden vehicle blew up in the city of Azaz, according to a security source who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 people, including 6 children, were wounded Sunday by an improvised explosive device in the northern city of Afrin, the Civil Defence agency said. According to the rescue group, the IED went off in the city center area. The IED follows a series of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 230 bodies have been exhumed in three months from a mass grave in eastern Raqqa province, the First Response Team said Sunday.  Yaser al-Khamis, head of the local rescue group, said in video statement that the exhuming work has been finished in the mass...

A Dutch accountant discovered that the leaders of Mayday Rescue, the Dutch foundation behind the White Helmets rescue organization in Syria, used money intended for a rescue operation for their own bonuses instead. James Le Mesurier, the founder of the White Helmets, died in an apparent suicide...

Syrians voted Sunday to elect a new parliament as the Damascus government grapples with international sanctions and a crumbling economy after retaking large parts of the war-torn country. More than 7,400 polling stations opened across government-held parts of Syria, including for the first...

Amid Syria’s devastating civil war, Russia and China’s UN Security Council vetoes to help the Assad regime have caused the deaths of "nearly a quarter of a million Syrians and the arrest of nearly 150,000 others," according to a human rights group. "The Security Council’s most serious...

 Three Military Intelligence operators were killed on Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in southern Daraa province. The IED attack rocked a bastion for a militia run by the military Intelligence Division, according to Zaman al Wasl reporter. The attack enrolls in a...

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State can return to Britain to challenge the government’s removal of her citizenship, judges ruled on Thursday. Shamima Begum, who was born to Bangladeshi parents, left London in 2015 when she was 15 and went to Syria...

Syria prepared for parliamentary elections to be held Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad marked a second decade in power mired by war, international sanctions and economic woes. The legislative polls, to be held across 70 percent of territory under government control, are the country's...

A military source told Zaman al-Wasl that the Syrian Air Force has received 12 MiG-29SMT fighter jets from Russia early this month. The second batch of Medium Weight Multirole aircrafts was landed in the Russian-held Hmeimim base in Coastal Latakia province where syrian military pilots...