The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are kidnapping young men for forceful recruitment in northeastern Syria, the state-run news agency SANA reported on Saturday. Through its checkpoint, the Kurdish-led SDF kidnapped 23 people to make them fight in its ranks, said the report,...

Turkey's air force has downed an unidentified drone on the Syrian border after it breached Turkish air space six times, the defence ministry said on Sunday. "An unmanned aerial vehicle which violated our air space six times (on Saturday)... was downed by two of our F-16s which took off from...

Desperate to escape war and find medical care for their daughter, Jaber Karawan and his wife have spent hundreds of dollars trying to escape northwestern Syria into next-door Turkey. They have tried five times to smuggle themselves and their two children across the border in recent weeks....

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem Saturday demanded an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. and Turkish troops from his country and warned that Syrian government forces had the right to take countermeasures if they refused. The United States has around 1,000 troops in Syria tackling...

The Russian army has stated that it has so far this year downed nearly 60 drones deployed by insurgents in Syria against its Hmeimim air base, west of a bastion controlled by rebels and jihadists. General Igor Konachenkov told journalists Friday that 58 drones and 27 missiles were...

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party stressed on Saturday the importance of restoring peace and stability in Syria to maintain tranquility in Turkey.  "The channel between Ankara and Damascus is the easiest way to peace," said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, chairman of the Republican...

Turkish and U.S. armed forces conducted the seventh round of joint helicopter flights on Saturday for a planned safe zone east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria.  According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, two Turkish and two American helicopters took off from...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been five years since the Palestinian-Syrian blogger Taghreed Dawas saw her daughter, who is living with her father in the United Arab Emirates. The mother could not see her daughter because their European documents as refugees were not recognized, which led her to...

Iraq’s Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has approved the reopening on Monday of the Qaim border-crossing with Syria, state news agency INA said, the latest sign of normalization between Baghdad and Bashar al-Assad’s government. The crossing will be reopened for travelers and trade, INA...

The Russian military said Friday it has downed dozens of drones and rockets launched by militants this year targeting Russia's air base in Syria. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that so far in 2019 the military has shot down 58 drones and 27 rockets...

The Syrian government and opposition should move forward on large-scale prisoner exchanges to build confidence ahead of the their first talks next month in more than a year, the United Nations special envoy for Syria said on Friday. The U.N. announced on Monday the formation of a...

The French foreign ministry said all light must be shed on any use of chemical weapons in Syria, and that it had been "worried to learn" of information from the United States about the use of such weapons in Syria in May. "All light must be shed on the subject of the possible use of...

Director of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) Tareq Hammoud said intensive efforts have been made by PRC’s delegates at the UNHRC to pressurize the Syrian regime to embark on the reconstruction of destroyed buildings and facilities in Yarmouk Camp for Palestine refugees, in Damascus....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and a child boy lost their lives Thursday in a motorbike explosion in the northern city of Idlib, local activists said.   The bike exploded near the main square of the city. Most of Idlib province and parts of neighboring Aleppo and Latakia...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Palestinian militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed and wounded by an improvised explosive device east of central Homs city, sources said Thursday. The explosion rocked a vehicle carrying Liwa al-Quds members, a pro-Assad regime militia, in the desert town...

The United States has confirmed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in May, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, vowing a response. The Assad regime used chlorine on May 19 as part of its deadly offensive in the last rebel stronghold of Idlib,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three suspected ISIS fighters were captured by the U.S.-led coalition and allied Kurdish forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province late on Wednesday, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The U.S. helicopters made an airdrop on the village of al-Jasemi and arrested...

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a firm it said was participating in a scheme to avoid U.S. sanctions while helping provide jet fuel to Russian forces in Syria. The U.S. Treasury Department said the newly sanctioned firm, Maritime Assistance LLC, was operating as a front...

 Russia is expanding its Hmeimim airbase in Syria and rebuilding a second landing strip to allow the facility to serve more aircraft, Russian news agencies cited an unnamed Defense Ministry official Thursday. The ministry has also set up new buildings to house aircraft at the site that...

The EU on Thursday welcomed the announcement of agreement on the formation of a Syrian constitutional committee. "The EU has consistently affirmed that any sustainable solution to the conflict requires a genuine political transition as outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2254 (2015)...