Syria's top tycoon publicly airing his grievances has revealed a power struggle within the ruling family as it tries to cement its power after nine years of war, analysts say. After years of staying out of the limelight, business magnate Rami Makhlouf this month in two videos on Facebook...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s largest and only mobile network operators, MTN and Syriatel announced the resignation of three of their top managers, without revealing any reasons for the decision. In a disclosure statement addressed to the Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities...

At least 18 civilians were wounded in a bomb attack carried out by the YPG/PKK terror group in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the terrorist group targeted an Operation Euphrates Shield area. At...

Clashes in northwest Syria killed 48 regime fighters and jihadists Sunday in the highest such death toll since the start of a two-month-old ceasefire there, a monitor said. A truce since March 6 had largely stemmed fighting in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib after a months-long...

Syria's government Sunday banned cars with large engines from receiving subsidised petrol in the latest move to curb a hydrocarbon crisis in the war-torn country the government blames on sanctions. Heating fuel, petrol and cooking gas have been in short supply over the past two years in...

Clashes in northwest Syria killed 22 regime fighters and jihadists Sunday in the highest such death toll since the start of a two-month-old ceasefire there, a monitor said. A truce since March 6 had largely stemmed fighting in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib after a months-long...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 Syrian fighters will leave to Libya from Russia's Hmeimim airbase in coastal Latakia region to join Khalifa Haftar's forces near Tripoli, a well-informed source told Zaman Al-Wasl Sunday.  A Russian cargo aircraft is due to transfer the former rebels...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A blaze flared up in barley crops in eastern Deir Ezzor province has destroyed 10 hectares at the start of the harvest season, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Local farmers have extinguished the fire that hit the unharvested barley crop in the desert Abu Khashab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition factions on Saturday have launched a Grad missile attack on Hmeimim military airbase in coastal Latakia region, sources said. The attack on Russia’s main airbase in Syria was in retaliation to a new regime army attack in northern Idlib province despite...

Liwaa Al Quds brigade, affiliated with the Syrian regime, has reportedly been buying civilian homes and property in Ein Tel (Handarat) refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, in Aleppo, at low prices. Local sources told AGPS that contractors and brokers having close ties to Liwaa Al Quds...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 regime and allied fighters from coastal Tartus province were killed in four weeks by opposition forces in northern Syria, pro-regime accounts said. The death toll has included two officers officers. Opposition factions and hardline groups have...

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria. Dozens of men and children sat out on a long line of blankets on the ground in the town of Atareb for the iftar, when Muslims break...

The U.N. human rights chief Friday accused Daesh (ISIS) and other factions in Syria of taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to step up violence on civilians, describing the situation as a "ticking time-bomb." United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet lamented a surge in violence in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Daesh group on Thursday has killed two US-backed fighters in eastern Deir Ezzor province amid hike in snap attacks against Kurdish forces and Syrian regime proxies. According to Zaman al-Wasl source, Daesh militants has attacked a checkpoint for the Syrian...

An attack by the Daesh group in the Syrian desert killed 20 regime and allied fighters, a monitoring group and activists said Thursday. The fighters died in an attack on their vehicle between Al Sukhna and Al Shula in the area straddling Homs and Deir Ezzor provinces, the Syrian...

Syria postponed a parliamentary election for a second time Thursday as part of measures to protect the war-battered country from the coronavirus pandemic. The Syrian government has recorded 44 cases, including three deaths in areas under its control, while the Kurdish administration in...

Turkish and Russian troops have carried out the ninth joint patrol along a key highway in northwestern Idlib province, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said Thursday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 9th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib was...

 Syrian business tycoon Rami Makhlouf remains at one of his homes in Syria, despite publicly criticising President Bashar al-Assad in a rare display of dissent by a key member of the country's ruling family, Middle East Eye has learnt. Makhlouf, who is also Assad's cousin, is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Health Ministry has put under quarantine a family of four members after father was tested positive for the novel coronavirus, local news site said on Wednesday. The confirmed case was reported in the district of Kafr Batna in the eastern enclave of Damascus....

(Zaman Al Wals)- The Syrian pound on Tuesday fell to a new record low on the black market, following Bashar al-Assad's warning of economic challenges plunge most of the Syrian people into poverty. Dealers said it cost as much as 1350 Syrian pounds in the capital to buy one dollar on the...