Germany strongly condemned the Syrian regime and its allies on Friday for their recent airstrikes in the country's northwest that have killed and injured dozens of civilians.   A Foreign Ministry statement said at least three medical facilities funded by Germany were targeted in...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday discussions would "continue" over the composition of a body to draw up a post-war constitution for the country. Meeting with Russian envoy Alexander Lavrentiev, the president discussed ongoing efforts towards "creating a committee to discuss the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten civilians, including three children, were killed and 45 more wounded in fresh regime air strikes on the northwestern province of Idlib, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The aerial bombing targeted the town of Maa'rret al-Nu'man in the...

Germany must repatriate from Syria the German wife and three children of an ISIL fighter, a court ordered on Thursday in the first such ruling against the government. Like other Western countries, Germany faces a dilemma of how to deal with citizens who went to the Middle East to join armed...

Over 100 fighters were killed in clashes Thursday between regime and militant-led forces in northwest Syria, as violence raged on the edge of an opposition bastion despite a September truce deal. In nearby Afrin, a car bombing killed 13 people in the latest violence to hit the city that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At last 11 civilians were wounded in car bomb blast in northeastern  Hasaka province, State-run news agency reported  Thursday . The attack took place near the church of the Virgin Mary in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, according to SANA. ...

Saudi Arabia's military in Yemen has moved in to secure two strategic Red Sea ports and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait after its leading ally the United Arab Emirates substantially reduced its presence there, four sources familiar with the matter said. The UAE has drawn down its numbers in...

BEIRUT: A car bomb near a checkpoint manned by Turkey-backed rebels in the northern Syrian city of Afrin killed 13 people including eight civilians Thursday, a war monitor said. Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies took control of Afrin from Kurdish forces in March last year after a...

Regime and Tahri Al Sham-led forces were locked in clashes Thursday on the edge of an opposition bastion in northwest Syria after an extremist-led advance that killed 56 fighters overnight, a war monitor said. Russian and regime aircraft have ramped up their deadly bombardment of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions on Wednesday have taken control of a town and its strategic hilltop in the northwestern Hama province, inflicting humiliating defeat on regime forces and allied militias, local activists said. Seizing the town of al-Hamameyat in the northern...

A new team established by the global chemical weapons watchdog to attribute blame for the use of banned munitions in Syria will investigate nine alleged attacks during the country's civil war, including in the town of Douma, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Organization for...

President Bashar al-Assad’s assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to keep the area out of his hands and shows why he will struggle to take back more of Syria by force. More than two months of Russian-backed operations in and...

The United Nations is close to agreement with Syria on establishing a constitutional committee, the U.N. Secretary General's Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told reporters on Wednesday. The U.N. wants to convene the committee as a next step in efforts to find a political solution to end the war...

.Regime and Russian air strikes on northwestern Syria on Wednesday killed 11 civilians including four children and knocked a hospital out of service, a monitor said. The raids are the latest in an uptick in deadly government and Russian bombardment since late April on the...

The UN special envoy for Syria arrived in Damascus Tuesday to press fresh talks on forming a constitutional committee to revive a stalling peace process to end the eight-year war. "Pleased to be back in Damascus," Geir Pederson, a seasoned Norwegian diplomat and the fourth UN ambassador to...

Member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog voiced concern Tuesday that Syria may still possess such weapons after inspectors discovered traces of what could be a byproduct of a nerve agent or poison gas at a Syrian research facility. In a report submitted to the Organization for...

Attempting to evade accountability, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syrian security intelligence chiefs accused of war crimes and replaced them with “clean figures,” according to local sources. The officials of the regime, known as perpetrators of war crimes including the use of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have thwarted an attack by regime forces and allied militias in northwestern Hama province, killing 30 troops, commander told Zaman al-Wasl.   Abu Yasser al-Hamwi, senior rebel commander, said the Syrian opposition had foiled new offensive on...

Syrian opposition activists and a war monitoring group say rebels have launched an offensive in the mountains of the coastal Latakia province, overrunning a series of Syrian army positions. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says clashes are underway in several locations in the...

Germany on Monday rejected demands by the United States to deploy ground troops in Syria, a stance likely to anger President Donald Trump who wants Chancellor Angela Merkel to commit to a bigger military role in the Middle East. "When I say the government envisages sticking to the current...