Overnight air strikes killed 10 pro-Iranian Iraqi militiamen in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Tuesday, without specifying who carried them out. The strikes targeted "three positions of the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards and allied (Iraqi) militias" in Albu Kamal, in the...

 A Syrian child was killed, and two more children wounded in a landmine explosion in the rebel-held city of Afrin city near the Turkish border, rescuing White Helmets agency said Tuesday.  Local activists said the childern were the victimed of lansdmines planted by Kurdish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced the start of the school season, anticipating more than 500,000 students in territory it controls in northeastern Syria, amid criticism of the situation of school buildings in Deir Ezzor and the curricula used in Hasaka, Tal...

Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has obtained satellite images proving the extent of the massive destruction inflicted on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, noting that the goal of the Russian-Syrian alliance is to implement the Grozny and Eastern Ghouta model and to destroy as many...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that up to three million Syrian refugees can return to a planned “safe zone” in northern Syria if it is extended from Turkey’s border to Deir al Zor and Raqqa, after talks with his Russian and Iranian counterparts. Speaking at a news...

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

The families of several children and wives of French jihadist fighters in Syria have filed lawsuits against France's top diplomat over his refusal to let them come to France, lawyers said Monday. The suits, filed in July and September, accuse Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of "failing...

The Turkish president on Monday met his Iranian counterpart in the capital Ankara, ahead of the trilateral summit on Syria later in the day. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani at the presidential mansion and held a closed-door meeting that...

Syria's future belongs to its people, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday.  He was speaking to reporters at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran ahead of a visit to Ankara to attend a trilateral meeting with leaders of Russia and Turkey on Syria. "Apart from the stability and...

At least 12 civilians were killed and dozens injured on Sunday in a car bomb attack in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border.  The explosion took place at a car park near the main hospital in the al-Rai town, about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away from Turkey....

The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran meet on Monday to try to secure a lasting truce in northwest Syria following attacks by the government that risk deepening regional turmoil and pushing a new wave of migrants toward Turkey. The summit in Ankara, bringing together countries whose Syrian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's state-run news agency SANA says President Bashar Assad has granted amnesty for all crimes committed before Sept. 14. According to the pardon issued Sunday, life-long terms would replace death sentences, and a 20-year-long sentence at hard labor would...

The US-led coalition said Sunday that "good progress" was being made in implementing a buffer zone in northern Syria along the Turkish border. Turkey and the United States last month agreed on the so-called "security mechanism" to create a buffer between the Turkish border and Syrian areas...

Syrian troops shelled the south of Idlib on Sunday, according to rescuers and residents in the rebel stronghold where a ceasefire had halted a fierce army offensive two weeks ago. Artillery fire battered Maarat al-Numan town and nearby villages in the south Idlib countryside over the past...

Thousands have returned to their hometowns in northwest Syria after military advances by regime loyalist against jihadists and allied rebels, state-rin media said Sunday. "Thousands of citizens return to their villages and towns of the northern Hama countryside and the southern Idlib...

Inside a rusty, abandoned bus in northwestern Syria, Umm Joumaa washes a silver tray and glass teacups, light pouring into her makeshift kitchen through broken windows. Around her, towels, bedsheets, clothes and plastic bags hang from wires that stretch across the smashed-out vehicle where...

Syrian state media is reporting that regime troops have opened a secured corridor to allow residents of the last rebel-held stronghold to leave but no one came out. State news agency SANA said Saturday that militants controlling most of Idlib province, home to nearly 3 million people,...

Regime and Russian fire has killed at least six civilians in northwestern Syria's Idlib province, a war monitor said Saturday, two weeks after Moscow declared a ceasefire in the jihadist-dominated region. The truce, which brought a halt to four months of devastating bombardment on...

A well-informed  source told Zaman al-Wasl that at the Syrian Defense Ministry provided lists of 185,000 soldiers with permanent disabilities as a result of their injuries during the regime's military actions against the Syrian people. The source, who preferred to remain unnamed for...

A UN inquiry into a series of regime and Russian attacks on UN-supported facilities in northwestern Syria's Idlib province will begin this month’s end, the international body announced Friday.  Secretary-General Antonio Guterres initiated the review at the behest of the ambassadors...