(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey is due to open a commercial border crossing with Ras Al-Ayn region northeastern Syria, seeking to supply the residents with basic products and goods, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. A source from the local governing council said that Turkish...

Around 73,000 Syrians have returned to the Syrian governorate of Idlib following the ceasefire agreement reached between Turkey and Russia in early March. The Director of the Syrian Response Coordinators, Muhammad Hallaj, said that some of the displaced civilians returned to their homes...

The Turkish and Russian militaries have completed their third round of joint patrols on the M4 highway near northwestern Syria’s Idlib province and observed that the cease-fire in the area seems to be holding, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Wednesday. Akar noted that the patrols were...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar Al-Assad has appointed Maj. Gen Akram Ahmed Hawija as the new commander of the 7th Mechanical Division, succeeding Maj. Gen Hikmat Suleiman who was referred to retirement . Hawija, originally from Qerdaha, Assad's hometown, was the head of the security...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Torture footage of kidnapped citizens from the southern Daraa province has sparked the residents' anger who believe that the state of civil peace with neighboring Sweida province is fraught.  Activists said an armed group operating in the adjacent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish commandos has killed 8 Kurdish militants were trying to infiltrate the ‘Operation Peace Spring zone in northeastern Syria, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.  The escalation followed a week of skirmishes between the YPG-led forces and Turkish-backed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Tuesday have hit Sarmin town with heavy artillery fire near a Turkish observation point, such a provocation may undermine the fragile ceasefire reached last March to end bloodshed in northern Idlib province.  According to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army sent new reinforcements from the First Division south of Damascus to northern Idlib province on Monday, activists said. More than 100 Syrian military trucks carrying 400 troops, ammunition, tanks and canons headed Jabal Shahshubo area....

A U.N. board of inquiry investigating attacks on civilian establishments in Syria, including hospitals, has refrained from directly holding Russia responsible, according to a summary of its report published Monday. The coordinates of the sites had been communicated to the belligerents by...

Syria is dragging its feet on releasing prisoners under an amnesty declared by President Bashar al-Assad, raising fears of mass infections if the new coronavirus spreads through its overcrowded jails, rights groups said Monday. The Damascus government has confirmed only 19 cases of...

It is "highly probable" the government of Syria or its allies carried out attacks on three healthcare facilities, a school and a refuge for children in northwest Syria last year, according to a summary of an internal United Nations inquiry seen by Reuters Monday. The inquiry also found...

Kurdish authorities performed tests for the new coronavirus on those arriving at Qamishli's domestic airport from Damascus. Medics and security teams set up a mobile testing facility at a roundabout outside of the airport and examined the returning passengers. Mohammed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Tensions eased in southern Syria after three troops from the Druze community were released by an armed group in Daraa province, local activists said Monday. An armed group in Busr al-Harir town held three forces on Saturday, demanding the release of an old man was...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Republican Guard troops and one Hezbollah militant were killed on Sunday when an explosion struck weapons depot in northern Aleppo province, a rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The depot s located in the town of Miznaz in the western countryside of...

Turkey said on Sunday it would minimise its troop movements in operation zones in neighbouring Syria in response to the coronavirus outbreak as the Turkish death toll and infections in the country rose. Turkey’s death toll from the COVID-19 disease has risen by 73 to 574 in the last 24...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish forces have set up three new observation points in northern Idlib province, topping the number to 54 amid heavy reinforcements keep pouring to the last opposition stronghold in Syria despite a ceasefire deal reached last March, local activists said Sunday. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior commander in the Syrian Republican Guard died of wounds succumbed due to a Turkish drone strikes in northern Idlib province last March, pro-regime activists said Sunday. Colonel Ahmed Said was the commander the artillery battalion in the 105th brigade, key unit...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 24 forces from the coastal province of Latakia were killed in March by opposition forces in northern Idlib province, activists said. The death toll has included ten officers.   At least 350 Syrian army troops and officers were killed since February...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State militants have kidnapped six people in eastern Deir province, local news site said Saturday. According to Deir EzZor 24, the militant Daesh group stormed the regime-held village of Al-Tabni in the western countryside and took six civilians captive....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local media outlet on Saturday has reported two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Ghouta Media Center said the two infections were confirmed in the town of Saqba, making the eastern enclave of the capital as an epicenter after...