Syrian activists and family members of a pro-government journalist say he's been released after being detained and held incommunicado for eight months. The brother of Wissam al-Teer thanked Syria's President Bashar Assad in a Facebook post Saturday for the release, in apparent reference to...

A week after Syria’s governemnt agreed to a cease-fire with rebel groups affecting the northwestern province of Idlib, air force jets hit multiple targets on Friday, humanitarian workers said, fueling international fears for millions of civilians crammed into the area. By early afternoon,...

Russia on Friday accused the UN of providing "false data" on the coordinates of civilian sites in Syria's Idlib, as outrage rises over the apparent bombardment of schools and hospitals in the area. The jihadist-run bastion of Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in Syria, has faced...

Turkey says Kurdish fighters have attacked a Turkish base in a Turkish-controlled area in northern Syria, wounding two of its soldiers. Turkey's Defense Ministry says fighters of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, attacked the base in Afrin with an anti-tank missile...

Russia hopes that an agreement can be reached soon under U.N. auspices on forming Syria’s new constitutional committee and that it can convene in Geneva as early as September, Moscow’s ambassador Gennady Gatilov said on Friday. Gatilov, speaking at a Geneva news briefing, said that he...

A Canadian citizen held in Syria since last year was released in Lebanon on Friday and broke down in tears at a news conference, saying he thought he would be held forever. Kristian Lee Baxter, who was detained in Syria last year, appeared alongside Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim,...

At least four civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes Thursday in a de-escalation zone in northern Syria, according to sources with the White Helmets civil defense agency. Three people were killed in the Khan Sheikhoun district of Idlib, and one in Latmeen village in Hama’s countryside,...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab criticised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for resuming military operations in a Russian-led campaign in northwest Syria, describing the situation there as "appalling." "Appalled by situation in Idlib and how Assad backed by Russia revoked a...

Turkey said Thursday the deal it has reached with Washington to set up a so-called safe zone in northeastern Syria is a good start but warned against delays in implementation. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's comments came a day after the U.S. and Turkey announced they agreed to...

The humanitarian adviser to U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen Thursday regretted the collapse of a ceasefire in the northwest, saying that fresh violence threatens the lives of millions after more than 500 civilians were killed since late April. Najat Rochdi, senior humanitarian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Empty Stomachs hunger strike campaign has appealed to individuals, peoples, NGOs, trade unions, parliaments, international and human rights institutions to do their part to lift the veil of silence on the most horrible crime of the 21st century. Since the...

Turkey's Family Ministry has taken over the treatment expenses of a 17-month-old Syrian baby girl who was abandoned at three months with a birth defect on the Turkey-Syria border.  The abandoned baby girl was found by the Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) when she was...

Regime forces captured two villages from jihadists and allied rebels in northwest Syria on Thursday following deadly clashes, days after ditching a ceasefire for the area, a war monitor said. The villages of Al-Sakhr and Al-Jaysat in Hama province came under regime control, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Arabic mare was fitted with prosthetic limb by local veterinarians in the northern town of Atareb after being wounded in regime shelling three months ago. The leg of the 4-month-old 'Sham al-Agha' horse was amputated in the regime bombing on the western...

Damascus said Thursday it rejects a U.S.-Turkish plan to establish a buffer zone in northern Syria, blaming Syria's Kurds for the proposal, state media said. "Syria categorically and blatantly rejects the agreement between the American and Turkish occupiers on the establishment of a...

A top Syrian Kurdish official gave a guarded welcome Thursday to a US-Turkish agreement to establish a joint operations centre for the north but said the details remained unclear. "This deal may mark the start of a new approach but we still need more details," Aldar Khalil told AFP. "We...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source revealed to Zaman Al-Wasl that the 3rd August explosion in Shayrat airbase was not due to from a private source that the explosion a “technical fault during the transport of expired ammunition” but during a training on new bomb to be used in the ongoing...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested about 20 young men wanted for conscription and three former rebels in Douma town, northeast Damascus despite reaching a reconciliation deal, local news site said. The arrest of former Jaish al-Islam fighters has accompanied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested three former rebels in Douma town, northeast Damascus despite reaching a reconciliation deal with regime in 2018, local activists said. The arrest of former Jaish al-Islam fighters has accompanied with a wide-scale raids tracking wanted...

 Turkey's Defense Ministry said Wednesday it agreed with the United States to establish a joint operation centre in Turkey to coordinate and manage a planned safe zone in northern Syria. Turkey and the United States, allies in NATO, have been deadlocked for months over the scope and...