With Syria's currency hitting record lows, a nationwide symbolic campaign has been launched by merchants, barbers, supermarkets and even gyms in the war-torn country to support the Syrian pound. Under the slogan "Our pound is our pride," the campaign encourages merchants to sell any...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 84 civilians, including 32 children, have been killed by the Russian-backed regime forces in ten days in northern Syria, Syria's Response Coordinators group said Friday. Five civilians, including three children killed Thursday in regime airstrikes on Idlib...

The United States has seen no uptick in Daesh (ISIS) activity in Syria and Iraq, U.S. special representative for Syria James Jeffrey said Thursday, weeks after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad. Jeffrey told reporters that U.S.-led coalition...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five civilians, including three children, were killed Thursday in fresh regime airstrikes on northern Idlib province as regime forces suffer setbacks and heavy losses. According to Zaman al-Wasl reporter, the victims were from the same family as regime strikes hit...

Up to 40 Syrian soldiers have been killed in an assault by hundreds of militants in north-western Syria, according to Russia's defence ministry. The ministry, which supports Syria's regime, said there were several attacks in which the militants seized two settlements in Idlib province....

Around 36,000 more civilians have fled their homes falling inside the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria over the last two days and the number of displaced civilians reached 450,000 since November 2019 due to attacks of the regime and its allies. According to Syria's Response Coordination...

Militants in Syria set off car bombs and used heavy gunfire to storm army positions in Idlib Thursday, state news agency SANA reported. The militant attack forced the army to redeploy and clashes were ongoing, SANA added. Idlib is the last rebel-held swathe of territory in the country...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued “a very strong appeal” Wednesday for a political solution to Syria’s nearly nine-year conflict, and he called for a global “push-back against the push-back” on ensuring human rights. In a wide-ranging speech and question-and-answer session with...

At least four displaced people, including two women were killed Wednesday in Russian air strikes hit Atareb town in northern Aleppo province, rescue workers told Zaman al-Wasl. The airstrikes and shelling came amid a regime offensive on the northwestern provinces of Idlib, the last...

Former resident in Germany has been killed by rebels in northern Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Abdul Rahaman Jallad, 22, was killed along with 20 militants when rebels launched a surprise attack on Tel Msaitef in eastern Idlib region, sources said....

A Turkish charity distributed food packages to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Syria. The IDPs have fled bombings by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Aleppo to Afrin, a province which was cleared of terrorists by a Turkey-backed military operation. Dozens of civilians have...

The head of Syria’s White Helmets (Civil Defense) Tuesday said the Syrian regime sought to capture opposition-controlled northwestern Idlib city of Syria through forced evacuations. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Raed al-Saleh commented on the Bashar al-Assad regime and its...

Russian air strikes killed 12 civilians Tuesday in northwestern Syria, as renewed violence tightened the noose around the country's last major opposition bastion and deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis. Two of the victims were killed in a southern area of Idlib province while the...

Dozens of civilians have lost their lives in Syria’s Idlib and tens of thousands of others have been displaced since Jan. 12, as the regime forces and its allies continued to violate cease-fire. According to data obtained from the country’s Response Coordination Group, the Assad regime has...

In an overcrowded desert camp for families linked to the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, a French woman begged for another chance so she and her children could go home. In the same settlement, two other French women were more tepid about the prospect of repatriation, with one...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed rebels have seized residents' property in the border town of Ras al-Ayn, seeking to settle their families on the expense of residents, local activists said Sunday.  About 80 vehicles carrying 60 families of the National Army fighters crossed into Ras...

Russian forces carried out fresh airstrikes on a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, killing at least nine civilians, local sources said on Monday. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, Russian warplanes targeted the rural areas of the northwestern...

US soldiers present in regions under YPG group’s control in Syria, on Saturday stopped Russian soldiers who wanted to reach oil fields, according to a report by Anadolu Agency. Dispute between the US and Russia about the Rumeylan oil field in northeast Hasakah is ongoing....

France's President Emmanuel Macron Sunday hit out against foreign troop deployments in war-ravaged Libya, saying such intervention only serves to fuel the conflict and create new risks for everyone. Voicing his "acute concerns over the arrival of Syrian and foreign fighters in the city of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 27,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo in the past 72 hours since regime forces backed by Shiite militias began major offensive on Friday, local war monitoring said.  The Syrian Response Coordinators Group...