(Zaman Al Wasl)- The meeting sessions of independent members from the Syrian opposition in Riyadh have ended, however, their effects did not halt, as the fear of a "vertical secession" increases, according to the statement of the head of the negotiation commission Nasr Hariri. Both...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 pro-Iran militants killed Friday by landmines planted by Daesh (ISIS) on a desert road links between Homs and Deir Ezzor province, local news site reported. Badyia 24 said the landmine attack took place near the town of al-Sukhnah in the eatsern countryside...

Almost nine years of civil war in Syria has left more than 380,000 people dead including over 115,000 civilians, a war monitor said in a new toll Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across the country, said they included around 22,000 children...

Turkey's decision to approve the deployment of troops to Libya risks plunging the North African nation deeper into a Syrian-style proxy war between regional powers including Russia, experts warn. Libya has been mired in conflict since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 toppled dictator Moamer...

The United States has designated Asaib Ahl al-Haq as a terrorist organization along with two of the Iraqi Shi'ite militia group's leaders, the U.S. State Department said in a statement Friday, calling it a proxy for Iran. The group and its leaders "are violent proxies of the Islamic...

U.N. Security Council members held an intensive round of meetings Friday on the humanitarian crisis in Syria's embattled Idlib province amid calls to reauthorize urgently needed cross-border aid. Humanitarian aid currently flows into northwestern Syria - a last rebel stronghold -...

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Friday the "world cannot afford" another Gulf war, following the killing of Iran's top military commander by a U.S. strike. "The secretary-general has consistently advocated for de-escalation in the Gulf," a spokesman for Guterres said in a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Qassem Soleimani’s last mission in Syria was a visit to a military base in the southern countryside of Aleppo where hundreds of Shiite militias had been dispatched, a Republican Guard officer told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The head of Iran's elite Quds Force, visited...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad on January 1st has promoted 16 Brigadier to the rank of Maj. General and 25 Colonels to the rank of Brigadier General. Most of them gained fame in brutality and killing, each in his field. Zaman al-Wasl has obtained the names of the promoted Major...

Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 3,364 civilians were documented killed in 2019 at the hands of the perpetrator parties to the conflict in Syria, including 234 in December.      According to SNHR , the Syrian regime and allied militias had killed 1,497...

President Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday about the conflict in Libya and fighting in Syria’s Idlib province, according to the White House. “The leaders discussed bilateral and regional issues,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in...

State-run media outlets on Thursday have reported a state of panic among the residents of Barada Valley west of the capital, after dozens of people were hospitalized with diarrhea, abdominal pain and severe vomiting. After a prolonged silence, the regime stated that the polluted water is the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) group has kidnapped four Republican Guard troops near the Dumayr military airbase east of the Damascus, activists said Thursday. The Kidnapped soldiers, originally from Suweida, the main stronghold of Druze community, who has been subjected to a series of...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that up to 250,000 migrants were fleeing from the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib towards Turkey, adding that Ankara was trying to prevent them from crossing its border. Turkey hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee...

Qatar Charity (QC) provided humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced Syrians, including women, children, the elderly, and those most in need. The aid came, as part of Qatar Charity’s winter campaign entitled “Warmth and Peace” to respond urgently to the tragic situation in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 former rebels from Damascus suburbs were killed in 2019 fighting along with  regime forces on the battlefields of Idlib, Hama and Latakia, local news site said Wednesday. Voice of The Capital said the slain fighters had agreed on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Four people, including two children, were killed and 10 wounded Wednesday in a YPG car bomb attack in the Turkish-held town of Suluk in eastern Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion was a powerful one,...

Children play in a prison courtyard, while adults divide a cell inside between several families. Fleeing violence in northwest Syria, they found nowhere else to go. They are among hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by war who are starting the new year far from home in the embattled...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian refugees in Turkey, Ibrahim and Nour al-Zubaybi, decided to donate their wedding budget to the displaced of Idlib province who fled a crushing offensive by Russian-backed regime forces and allied militias, such a gesture touched the hearts of the people around...