Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the situation in Syria and Libya in a phone talk on Monday. The diplomats discussed in detail efforts of Russia and Turkey to stabilize the situation and ensure a cease-fire in Syria's Idlib...

A total of 125 civilians, including 26 children and six women, were killed in Syria this May, mostly as a result of bombings, a rights group said on Monday. Of these fatalities, the Syrian regime forces killed 10 civilians, including two women, while Russian forces killed one civilian,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In an attempt to win the race over this season’s wheat crop in northeastern Syria, the regime government has approved to raise their buying price from farmers from 225 to 400SYP per kilogram (35 cent), one day after the Democratic Union’s announcement of raising it to 315 SYP....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new wave of displacement began Sunday in the northern Idlib province as residents fear a new offensive by regime forces despite the 3-month-old ceasefire. Khalid Raslan, 35, along five families fled the Jabal al-Zawiya region to the Turkish border on Sunday. Raslan...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said the destroying of Ma’aret al-Numan and Saraqeb towns in northern Idlib province and displacing their residents is a clear example of the Syrian regime’s tactics in its recent military campaign between early December 2019 and March 2020,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian women's rights activists have decried detaining seven Kurdish women by Turkish-backed opposition faction in the border city of Afrin last week, demanding to hold the perpetrators accountable, according to a statement issued Saturday. Al-Hamza Brigade has released...

group of Syrians has decided to turn down a job opportunity after discovering that it detailed fighting alongside the ranks of the illegitimate forces of Libyan renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar in the east of Libya, Demiröen News Agency (DHA) reported Saturday. According to information...

 Turkish elite forces have killed five YPG militants in northeastern Syria, the Defense Ministry said on Saturday. "Our commandos do not allow passage to terror groups. Five PKK/YPG terrorists, who attempted to infiltrate into the Operation Peace Spring zone, aiming to disrupt the...

(Eqtsad)- Some Syrian candidates for Turkish citizenship have launched an online campaign all over social media, demanding to Turkish authorities to hasten the citizenship process as they have been waiting for years for the final answer of whether their candidacy would be accepted or...

 Russia wants to significantly expand its military bases in war-torn Syria, the Interfax news agency cited a government resolution as saying on Friday. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Defense and Foreign Ministries to hold talks with Bashar Assad's government over obtaining...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian military police have exhumed 14 bodies for ISIS jihadists, mostly from Uzbekistan and Chechnya, who purportedly killed by opposition forces in northern Aleppo province years ago, military source told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The jihadists were members of the...

The coronavirus pandemic could create a new world order in which everyone is a loser and new alliances are born to overcome disaster, Syrian thinker Imad Fawzi Shueibi said. The Damascus University professor in epistemology, or theory of knowledge, said the deadly virus had altered human...

Militias fighting alongside the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad destroyed and desecrated the grave of the eighth Umayyad Caliph Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz yesterday, located in the north-west province of Idlib. Video footage of the destruction emerged on social media yesterday, showing the...

(Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria)- Property-theft and burglary targeting civilian homes and property have increasingly been reported in Yarmouk Camp. Stolen materials include house furniture, ware, and power wires. Flocks of vehicles laden with belongings stolen from abandoned...

EU foreign ministers on Thursday decided to extend sanctions for one more year against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and its supporters. The restrictive measures have been in place since 2011 in response to the violent repression of the civilian population. “EU’s sanctions target...

Turkish and Russian military elements performed the 13th joint patrol along a key highway in Idlib, northwestern Syria, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 13th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib...

A Turkish soldier was killed in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Wednesday after an explosion along the M4 highway, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said in a statement. Earlier, Turkey’s private Demiroren news agency had reported that the explosion was caused by a roadside bomb but the...

 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said on Wednesday the situation in Libya was very worrying, warning the Syria scenario was being replicated in the country. "The crisis is deepening. We are facing a 'Syrianisation' of Libya," Le Drian told a French Senate hearing.

The UN sent Wednesday 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where millions are in urgent need of assistance. The trucks carrying supplies entered Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in southern Hatay province of Turkey, bordering Idlib. The aid...

Six militants were killed Wednesday in an explosion that hit their arms depot in northwest Syria while Russian warplanes flew overhead, a war monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not say if Russia was behind the blast that killed the non-Syrian...