Hospitals in Syria's overcrowded opposition-held enclave are suspending non-emergency procedures and outpatient services following the detection of the first case of coronavirus, a leading doctor in the area said Friday. The regional education department also announced it was closing all...

Oil prices dropped on Friday and were headed for weekly declines as inventories rose and record-breaking new coronavirus cases in the United States stoked concern about the pace of economic recovery and fuel demand. Brent crude was down by 46 cents, or 1.1%, at $41.89 a barrel by 1130 GMT,...

Syria’s Intelligence arrested three senior army officers following an espionage scandal that hit Bashar al-Assad’s special office and his inner circle, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. Bri. Gen Mohamed Tawfiq al-Mohamed, Bri. Gen Shawkat Hassan Mayhoub and Colonel Ibrahim Salem...

The U.N. counterterrorism chief said his office received information that 700 people died recently in two camps in northeast Syria, where about 70,000 mainly women and children connected to Islamic State fighters are detained in “very dire conditions.” Vladimir Vorontsov told a news...

Russia and the West are in a showdown over continuing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest after the current U.N. mandate expires on Friday. Germany and Belgium on Thursday called for a vote on a draft resolution that would maintain the two border...

The UN will announce Friday the results of a vote on a resolution to prolong cross-border humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria, the authorization for which expires that evening. It is unclear whether Russia, which vetoed a previous draft just three days prior, will once more block the vital...

A first case of coronavirus was recorded in northwest Syria Thursday, an opposition official said, reviving fears of disaster if the pandemic reached the rebel bastion's displacement camps. "We regret today to announce the first case of coronavirus in a health worker at one of the...

Member countries of the global chemical weapons watchdog voted overwhelmingly Thursday to take action on a probe that explicitly blamed Syria for nerve gas attacks for the first time, diplomats said. The report in April by a new investigations team at the Organisation for the Prohibition of...

Syria could face severe bread shortages for the first time since the start of the war, another challenge for President Bashar al-Assad as he grapples with an economic meltdown and fresh US sanctions, a UN official, activists and farmers said. Any major disruptions to Syria's bread subsidy...

Iran has said it will strengthen Syria's air defenses as part of a bilateral military deal aiming to "fight terrorism" and counter American pressure. Key US ally Israel, Iran's arch-enemy, has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of a civil war there in 2011, including...

Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Tuesday that would have extended cross-border humanitarian aid to three million Syrians for a year.  The authorization, which has been in effect since 2014, is set to expire Friday. The resolution was drafted by...

At least 7 people, mostly women and children, were killed by a car bomb in the northeastern border town of Tal Abyad, activists said Tuesday. The Turkish-backed local council said at least 27 others were wounded by the blast. Most of the wounded people have been admitted to a Turkish...

 A roadside bombing on Wednesday killed one pro-regime fighter and wounded others in the eastern countryside of Hama province. The suspected-Daesh attack near Atharyia road has followed days of clashes between regime forces and the radical group in the central desert province of...

Western countries pushed members of the global chemical weapons watchdog Tuesday to formally condemn Syria after a probe explicitly blamed Damascus for nerve gas attacks for the first time. A report in April by a new investigations team at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes amounting to war crimes on schools, hospitals and markets in Idlib province, UN investigators said Tuesday in a report that also condemned attacks by jihadist fighters. They said that "indiscriminate bombardment" by...

On a riverbank in Syria's Hama, Mohammed Sultan tinkers away on a giant water wheel, one of a dwindling number of artisans able to restore the city's ancient wooden landmarks. Used for centuries to bring water to gardens and buildings on the shores of the Orontes River, the water wheels or...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the summer of 2018, Ahmad al-Hourani, 40, a former opposition fighter,  signed with his brother Salam (then 26), the so-called reconciliation agreement with the Syrian regime in southern Daraa province.  Ahmed, who used a pseudonym in fear of...

One Syrian displaced was killed by an improvised explosive device in the northern city of Afrin, topping the suspected Kurdish attacks on the Turkish-held region to four in a month, local activists said Monday. Another displaced person was wounded in the IED attack that hit their...

Four Syrian refugees, including three children, have died after falling down in a 65 foot deep well in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, activists said Sunday. The tragic incident began when three Syrian children fell into an abandoned well in the Shalfa district near...

 A Syrian police officer was killed and two civilians injured Friday in a roadside bomb in the Turkish-held city of Afrin in northwestern Syria.   The bomb rocked a crowded place in the city center, a security source told Turkish Anadolu Agency. Ten days ago, a rigged...