Israeli airstrikes in eastern Syria killed 14 Iranian and Iraqi fighters and wounded others, some seriously, an opposition war monitoring group said Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the late Monday strikes in eastern Deir el-Zour province targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed by an improvised explosive device in opposition areas in northern Aleppo province, activists said Tuesday. The attack took place in the border town of al-Bab east of Aleppo city. Bomb attacks have been mounted on Turkish-held areas in...

 Turkish and Russian forces have carried out their eighth joint patrol along a key highway in northern Idlib region, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 8th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib was conducted...

Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research centre and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo in the second such raid in less than a week, state media said on Monday. The Syrian regime army said in a statement that Israel hit military barracks in al...

President Bashar al-Assad warned Monday of a "catastrophe" in war-battered Syria if the easing of lockdown measures against coronavirus is mishandled. The government in Damascus has officially recorded 44 cases of COVID-19, including three deaths, while Kurdish authorities in the country's...

Turkey will no longer tolerate terrorist harassment in the Idlib safe zone in northwestern Syria or ramped-up attacks which flout agreements, Turkey’s president said Monday. Terrorist groups are trying to exploit Turkey's preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to step up attacks...

 Human Rights Watch Monday called for an investigation into a spectacular gorge in northern Syria that has been used as a dumping site for dead bodies over several years. The 50-metre-deep hole in a desert area of Raqa province was once controlled by the Daesh group, when it still...

Unknown gunmen abducted and killed nine policemen Monday in southern Daraa province in a rare such attack on a government building in the defeated cradle of the nine-year uprising, a monitor said. The killings, for which there were no immediate claim of responsibility, occurred in the...

The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) expects that Russia, Turkey and Iran will reach a consensus to remove the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar Al-Assad, and establish a ceasefire in exchange for forming a transitional government that includes the opposition, members of the regime...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- A three-year-old child was severely wounded when his tent caught fire in a makeshifts camp in northern Idlib province, activists said Sunday. The child boy has been admitted to a border Turkish hospital after pleas by opposition activists. Medics...

Militants from the Daesh group rioted in a northeast Syrian prison Sunday, a month after similar violence at the facility allowed four extremists to escape, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish activist collective said. Kurdish forces sent reinforcements to the prison in the eastern...

Local sources revealed to Deir Ezzor 24 network, that Russian forces conducted a military patrol on the outskirts of Al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside, and that it is the first time for Russia to move militarily in the region. The sources said that the patrol drove near...

Sanctions-hit Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf Sunday said that security forces are arresting employees at his diversified companies in what he said were "mounting pressures" on him days after Syrian authorities asked him to repay hefty taxes. "Today pressures began in an unacceptable ways and...

The Libyan Army on Saturday hit an oil tanker belonging to militias of warlord Khalifa Haftar, according to the country’s military. Col. Muhammad Kununu, a spokesman for the government’s armed forces, said in a written statement that the army conducted an airstrike on Nesme region, 200...

Iran said Saturday there was a "clear drop" in the number of new coronavirus infections as it reported 802 fresh cases, the lowest daily count since March 10. The new cases brought to 96,448 the number recorded in Iran since it announced its first cases in mid-February. "This...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed in a cluster bomb explosion in southern Daraa city, activists said Saturday. A 4-year-old child passed away and six more people were wounded due to the blast in the Old City of Daraa. Activists say the bomb was from the regime army remnants...

Protests broke out across opposition-held parts of northwest Syria Friday against an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group after it opened a trade crossing into regime territory, an AFP correspondent and a war monitor said. "Mass protests broke out in several towns and villages in the provinces of...

An apparent spat in the once tight-knit family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deepened overnight Thursday when his tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf made a rare direct appeal for help on Facebook over an order to seize his assets and impose fines. Mr Makhlouf, Mr Assad’s maternal cousin and...

The Syrian state media reported Friday Israeli air strikes in the Golan Heights and later blasts at an ammunition depot east of the city of Homs. While the Syrian army said the series of blasts at the ammunition depot east of Homs city led to casualties, it stated the incident was not...

Explosions rocked a Syrian military base housing a weapons warehouse Friday in the country's central Homs province, and a local official said the cause was not immediately clear. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syria war, said an Israeli rocket...