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The US is no longer demanding Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad step down from office, and is instead seeking a radical change in the regime's behavior, President Donald Trump's special envoy for the country's conflict said Monday. "We are not demanding total victory. We are not...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians searching for their relatives have stepped up their efforts after the US adopted the Caesar Act, a law which imposes sanctions on the Syrian regime for war crimes. Families, who have long given up on ever finding their relatives, click on web links...
Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria are in talks with their military allies in a US-led coalition over a promised exemption from US sanctions targeting the Syrian government, a senior Kurdish official said. Washington says the sanctions, which took effect last week, mark the start...
Federal prosecutors have arrested a Syrian doctor working in Germany for crimes against humanity. He is suspected of beating an epileptic prisoner while working for the Syrian military intelligence agency. German federal prosecutors arrested a Syrian doctor for suspected crimes against...
Ten French children are being repatriated to France from refugee camps in northeast Syria, the French foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. The ministry added that the children had been handed over to French authorities. “France today proceeded with the return of 10 young...
Some 25,000 people, mostly women and children, have died in the Mediterranean Sea over the last eight years, the Turkish president said on Sunday. “In the past eight years, 25,000 people, most of them women and children, died in the treacherous waters of Mediterranean,” Recep Tayyip...
One person has been injured in an attack by the Kurdish YPG militia in the border town of Azaz, security sources said late Sunday. A vehicle belonging to the Syrian National Army (SNA) was bombed, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to security concerns. No one...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Health Ministry has put a whole district west of the capital under quarantine on Sunday after reporting 11 confirmed cases with novel Coronavirus. The district of Jadidat Al-Fadl in the western countryside of Damascus has witnessed an increase in the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes carried out two airstrikes on opposition areas in northern Idlib province, local reporter said Saturday. The strikes targeted the town of Kafr Owayeid in Jabal al-Zawiya region. No casualties reported. Also, the regime artillery has pounded an...
At least four civilians, including children, were injured Saturday when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded in the opposition-held city of Afrin in northern Syria. In Afrin’s city center, a bomb planted in a parked car exploded, a security source told Anadolu Agency. The attack...
China will set up a "national security agency" in Hong Kong to oversee a forthcoming new law aimed at cracking down on dissent in the city, state media said on Saturday. The new law also would override any existing Hong Kong laws that may conflict with it once it is implemented, Xinhua...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A crop fire destroyed about 40 hectares in southern Sweida province late on Friday, local activists said. The massive fire flared up in the Dafn area in the southern countryside. Firefighters backed by farmers and residents were able to extinguish the fire...
A summer rainstorm has partly damaged 30 refugee camps in northwestern Syria, rescue group said Friday. The floods have washed away dozens of tents along the Turkish border, according to the Syrian Response Coordination group. More than one million people have been...
At least eight Turkish-backed forces were killed in an attack carried out by the YPG militia in the northern Afrin region, Zaman Al Wasl reporter said. From Tal Rifat district, the YPG militants attempted to infiltrate front lines in Bassouta area in the south of Afrin...
A draft UN resolution would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest and reopen an Iraqi crossing to the northeast to deliver medical supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia, which insisted the Iraqi crossing be...
As Syria's economy plummeted further, the local Kurdish-led authority controlled by US-backed fighters in the country's north said Thursday it was more than doubling the salaries of its employees to make up for the loss of the value of the Syrian pound. The announcement came a day after...
Iran on Thursday condemned as inhumane a fresh round of U.S. sanctions against its regional ally Syria and said it would expand its trade ties with Damascus. The United States on Wednesday imposed its toughest sanctions targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to choke off revenue for his...
More than one percent of the world's population - a record 80 million people - have now been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, the UN said Thursday. By the end of 2019, one out of every 97 people in the world was living uprooted and displaced, according to a fresh...
Since mid-2019, the rift between Bashar al-Assad and his maternal cousin and tycoon Rami Makhlouf has been growing wider, despite both parties’ initial attempts to find solutions and to keep the dispute from the public. However, with Rami Makhlouf’s media appearance, earlier this year,...
In the last bastion of the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians who fled his rule see new U.S. sanctions as a step in the right direction but say they must be shielded from any fallout as the currency crumbles. The toughest U.S. sanctions yet against Damascus came into...
