A huge fire has swept more than 150 hectares of palm and olive trees in the historic city of Palmyra in Syrian desert, state-run news agency said Tuesday. SANA said a third of Palmyra Oasis orchards had been destroyed, which has a total area of ​​about 400 hectares. The...

The leader of the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group in Iraq was killed in an airstrike in eastern Syria, the Iraqi government said on Tuesday. According to a statement by the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, Moataz Numan Abdel Nayef Najm al-Jabouri was killed in an airstrike in Syria's Deir...

Syrian authorities loosened coronavirus lockdown restrictions Tuesday by cancelling a nighttime curfew, allowing travel between provinces and announcing a reopening of mosques, state media said. The decision comes as the war-torn country grapples with a crippling economic crisis and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been eight years since one of the most gruesome massacres committed against tens of unarmed civilians in the town of Al-Houla, in central Homs province. Residents of Al-Houla like their fellow revolutionary Syrians acrossout the country went to streets to demand...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syrian settlement in a phone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi on Monday. The two leaders agreed to coordinate the steps aiming to achieve a sustainable peace in Syria, the Kremlin said in a statement on its official...

Traffic returned to a major highway in northeastern Syria for the first time in seven months Monday, following Russian mediation to reopen parts of the road captured last year by Turkey-backed opposition fighters. Syrian Kurdish media and a Syrian Kurdish official said several vehicles...

Syria reported 20 new cases of the novel coronavirus Monday, the largest single-day increase to date, the health ministry said. The war-torn country has recorded 106 infections and four deaths so far, and new cases have increased in recent days. It brings the total recorded...

Food prices in Syria have risen to their highest levels since conflict erupted nine years ago, putting more than half the country’s population at risk of hunger, aid workers and economists have warned. The cost of a representative basket of staple foods has doubled in just over six...

At least 16 Syrian people were tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon their return from Sudan, UAE, Russia and Kuwait, the  regime health ministry said Sunday . It brings the total recorded infections in Syria to 86 and four deaths. The war-torn nation has limited...

The Syrian government has announced the largest single day jump of recorded cases in the country, where so far testing has been limited. The health ministry said Saturday that 11 people tested positive upon their return from Kuwait, and that they were among Syrians repatriated from the...

Egyptian security forces killed 21 suspected militants in North Sinai, part of a group that the interior ministry said was planning attacks over the Eid holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, state television reported Saturday. Two officers were wounded in an exchange of fire during the...

Every day, I wake at the crack of dawn. I walk to my local hospital, put on my scrubs and my PPE. I sweat in it – mopping floors, disinfecting surfaces, cleaning everything that might be touched by a hand. I am aware that if I miss a spot, the virus might stay on the surface, and someone might...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many of the Syrian opposition believe that the Syrian regime and key ally Iran had paved the road for Daesh since 2003. A recent study by the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Researches and the Center for Democratic Republic Studies, addresses the relation...

A Syrian doctor living in Germany is being investigated on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity at a military hospital in the war-torn country, a report in Spiegel magazine Friday said. Federal prosecutors suspect the man of beating and torturing men arrested by the Syrian...

Iran is slowly pulling out of Syria in response to Israeli strikes, as well as growing domestic discontent linked to the economy and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli military said Thursday. Israel and Iran have for years been engaged in a shadow war that has recently...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The rift between Syria’s telecom tycoon Rami Makhlouf and his maternal cousin Bashar al-Assad has marked a turning point in the boiling political scene in the war-torn country. Syria experts say the row could mark the first major rift in decades within the family that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two motorbike bombs have killed three civilians, including a child, in the Kurdish-held areas in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Thursday. Fifteen more were wounded when the booby-trapped motorbikes exploded in the town of al-Bsairah in the eastern...

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned Thursday of a worsening crisis in northeast Syria, where water cuts, food shortages and depleted health services are proving as dangerous as coronavirus. Home to sprawling displacement camps hosting tens of thousands of people, including...

(Zaman Photos)- Abdul-Mu’ti Saeed, a 53-year-old displaced interior designer, has turned a wild cave in northern Idlib province into a cultural space, decorated with traditional antiques he brought from his home in Aleppo region.

Turkish and Russian military elements performed the 12th joint patrol along a key highway in Idlib, northwestern Syria, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 12th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib...