Activists have embarked on a so-called “I’ll Be Back Home” campaign in an attempt to urge concerned authorities to reconstruct Yarmouk Camp and allow displaced Palestinian families to safely return to their homes. The campaigners called on the concerned families to gather at Al-Bashir...

Syrian President Bashar Assad has replaced some heads of influential security agencies, including Maj. Gen. Jamil Hassan, who has headed the powerful Air Force Intelligence Directorate since 2009, pro-government Syrian pages on social media reported Sunday. No reason was given for the...

Regime bombardment Sunday killed 12 civilians including three children in an opposition bastion in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said. Idlib, a region of some three million people, has come under increasing fire by the regime and its ally Russia since late April, despite a months-old...

At least 130 children were among the 544 people killed in a Russian-led assault on the last rebel-held area of northwestern Syria over the last two months, according to an independent monitoring group. Aided by Russian air power, the Syrian army launched an offensive on the rebel-held Idlib...

Oman's foreign minister has made a rare visit to Damascus to discuss with President Bashar Assad ways of restoring stability and security in the region. Oman is one of few Arab countries that kept normal relations with Damascus after Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 months...

The United States on Sunday called for Germany to send ground troops to northern Syria, pushing Berlin to ramp up its military involvement in the fight against the Islamic State group as Washington looks to withdraw from the region. "We want ground troops from Germany to partly replace our...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad, in wild-scale appointments for top intelligence officials since first of July, has appointed Maj. Gen. Nasser al-Ali as the new head of the Political Security Directorate (Division), successor to Maj. Gen. Hussam Louka who heads the General Intelligence...

At least 544 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 people injured since a Russian-led assault on the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria began two months ago, rights groups and rescuers said on Saturday. Russian jets joined the Syrian army on April 26 in the biggest offensive...

 Iraq's security and paramilitary forces have begun a military operation along the border with Syria aiming to clear the area of Daesh (ISIS) militants. The Iraqi military said the operation that began at sunrise Sunday is being carried out by Iraqi troops and members of the Popular...

It’s been nearly four years since harrowing images of a drowned toddler washed up on a Turkish beach became a global symbol of the plight of Syrian refugees. Now Alan Kurdi’s tragic fate has inspired a film – one that has left his family distraught. The two-year-old child and his family...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish war lord, who has been fighting along with the Syrian regime for over seven years, was wounded Saturday by an improvised explosive device in the coastal Latakia province, news feeds reported. Miraj Oral, or Ali Kayali, has escaped the death in the suspected...

A Syrian regime bombardment has killed 14 civilians, including seven children, in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday, in the latest deadly raids on the embattled opposition bastion. Warplanes and helicopters late Friday carried out air strikes on the village of Mahambel in...

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria Friday urged Russia to help stabilize the violence in northwestern Idlib province and support drafting the nation's new constitution. During talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Geir Pedersen voiced hope that Russia and Turkey could help...

Greek authorities have seized what they described as the world's largest single haul of super-charged amphetamine Captagon pills from Syria worth more than half a billion euros. Coastguard and drug enforcement officers seized three containers full of the amphetamines, the financial crimes...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime authorities declined the return of 119 displaced to their hometown in central Homs province without declared reasons, according to leaked document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. The ban document that issued in April was signed by the Minister of Local...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists said the Lebanese security had arrested activist Ahmed al-Khader two weeks ago in Beirut  over no concrete charges and  in spite of his legal residency. Al-Khader fled the town of al-Hola in central Homs province to Lebanon,...

The Red Cross warned Thursday that displaced people in and around Syria's al-Hol camp were facing an "apocalyptic" conditions, urging countries to quickly repatriate family members of suspected foreign fighters. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned of the extreme difficulties...

British Royal Marines seized an oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday accused of bringing oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, a dramatic step that could escalate confrontation between the West and Iran. The Grace 1 tanker was impounded in the British territory at the mouth of the...

A rigged motorcycle exploded in Syria’s Sweida city, which the government controls, killing three people and injuring seven others on Wednesday night, an official there said. “The situation is stable after the incident, and life is going on as normal,” Amer al-Eshi, the governor of Sweida...

A supertanker suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions was detained in Gibraltar Thursday, the territory's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said. The Grace 1 vessel was halted in the early hours of Thursday by Gibraltar police and customs agencies, aided by a...