Turkey does not think its effort with the United States to form a "safe zone" in northeast Syria will yield the results it wants and is ready to carry out a military operation, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying on Thursday. Ankara and NATO ally Washington have agreed to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Testimonies from people who entered the capital’s western town of Darayya have assured that the regime did not only destroy the neighborhoods with its bombs, but also it entered residential houses, shops and facilities—public and private—stealing all that could benefit it. The...

A UN official said on Wednesday Turkey's security concerns for northeast Syria are "legitimate" and these concerns need to be taken into account.  The constitutional committee in Syria will bridge the differences between the sides in Syrian crisis, Geir Pedersen, UN's special envoy to...

Looking out over a park planted at Russia's naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus, the base commander points to a row of trees. "These plants will have time to grow," the Russian says, his eyes shielded from the Mediterranean sun by a desert camouflage cap. Four years after they...

Hundreds of Kurds demonstrated in northeast Syria on Wednesday in protest at their minority community's "exclusion" from a United Nations-backed committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the war-devastated country. Carrying placards, demonstrators gathered in front of UN offices...

The Russian S-500 air defense system was tested in Syria, Russian daily Izvestia reported on Wednesday. Certain problems were identified during the testing, but they were quickly eliminated, Izvestia reported, citing the sources from the Russian Defense Ministry. The tests have already...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian security has approved the return of 3594 displaced people from al-Qusayr to their town after submitting their names to the relevant committees in Homs. The lists, obtained by Zaman al-Wasl, showed that those mentioned were currently in the regime's control...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian artist Mazen Al-Qarji excelled in turning stone into beautiful and creative paintings, highlighting the finest details with great precision and skill. Al-Qarji, 54, originally from town of Kafr Nabl in northern Idlib province, graduated from the Faculty of Fine...

 Turkey has no choice but to act alone given too little progress has been made with the United States forming a “safe zone” in northeastern Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in his most direct indication of a cross-border offensive. After eight years of war in neighboring...

A total of 118 civilians were killed in attacks in war-torn Syria last month, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Tuesday.  In a statement, the group said 18 children and 12 women were among the victims. Forty-four civilians were killed by regime...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his readiness to act alone in northeast Syria and retake areas from American-backed Kurdish forces, saying that efforts to defuse the threat they pose to Turkey have failed. “We may suddenly arrive one night,” Erdogan told reporters after a speech to...

 Turkey's deadline to jointly establish a "safe zone" with the United States in northern Syria by the end of September has passed, leaving the threat of unilateral military intervention by Ankara hanging over the region. President Tayyip Erdogan told the United Nations last week he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists appealed the Lebanese authorities not to deport member of opposition Ramez al-Sayed or hand him over to the regime as he never carried a weapon or fought, his only weapon being the pen and words, according to the appeal statement. Activists insisted on Lebanon...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria said Monday that the convening of a committee to draft a new constitution for Syria on Oct. 30 "should be a sign of hope for the long-suffering Syrian people" — but it will matter only if it becomes a step out of the more than eight-year conflict. Geir...

A woman was killed and dozens detained in a Kurdish-run camp in northeast Syria holding families of Islamic State group jihadists, a Kurdish official said. Security incidents have been on the rise in the crowded camp of Al-Hol, which houses families of IS fighters among its 70,000...

 The United States said Monday nearly 128,000 people face arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and called for their release. "This practice is unacceptable," US Ambassador Kelly Craft told the UN Security Council at its monthly meeting on the conflict in Syria. "The Assad...

A border crossing on a vital highway linking the capitals of Iraq and Syria, seized by Daesh militants in 2014, re-opened on Monday, an AFP reporter said. Iraqi security forces had re-taken the border post near the town of Al-Qaim in late 2017 as part of a massive operation backed by an...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6686 civilians have been killed since Russia intervened in the Syrian conflict in September 30, 2015, war monitor reported. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), which monitors casualties and briefs various UN agencies, said 1928 children and 808...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two army officers were killed when regime forces launched an attack on rebel-held mountainous area in the coastal province of Latakia, activists said Sunday.  The regime army backed by Russian airstrikes launched several attacks to take Tel al-Kabana, a strategic...

Among the destroyed buildings of Syria's Aleppo, a battered sign between two army checkpoints welcomes visitors to an area earmarked to become a beacon of post-war reconstruction. "The industrial city of Aleppo thanks you for your visit," it reads. Once the country's powerhouse, Aleppo...