The UN's special envoy for Syria met Friday in Geneva with top diplomats from a "small group" of countries.  Representatives from Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the U.K. and the U.S. attended the meeting with Geir O. Pedersen, aiming to revive the Geneva process, which...

The European Union on Friday called for protecting inhabitants of Syria’s northwestern Idlib province and ensuring humanitarian access to the province.  "With the marked increase of airstrikes over Idlib province and northern Hama over the past weeks and days, we are once again running...

Syrian rebel fighters repelled an attack by government forces following brief clashes Friday at the southern edge of the last rebel-held enclave in Syria, activists and the insurgents said. It was the first attempted ground operation to violate a shaky seven-month truce. The clashes came...

Talks between Turkey and the United States on Syria were "positive and constructive", a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Ankara said Thursday. RaeJean Stokes said U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey held a series of meetings Wednesday in Turkey’s capital with senior Turkish...

Turkey and the United States are getting closer to an agreement on the details of a planned safe zone in northeast Syria along the Turkish border, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. Cavusoglu was responding to a question at a news conference about Turkish talks this...

Schools, health facilities and residential areas have been hit by the worst barrel bombing campaign in rebel-held northwestern Syria in 15 months, the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator Panos Moumtzis told Reuters Thursday. Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and...

Five civilians were killed in attacks by Assad regime forces on residential areas located inside northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, local sources said Thursday. Overnight airstrikes and artillery attacks targeted the villages of Kansafra, Termela, Bsekla Has and Abdin in Idlib province,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Archive activists managed to recover 150,000 videos deleted by YouTube in November 2017 after activating artificial intelligence.  The channel deleted hundreds of thousands of videos at the beginning of this year on the pretext of fighting...

The pencil minaret of the Ottoman Adliyeh mosque in Syria’s Aleppo lists to one side and is scored by an ugly gash running down its flank, the result of bombing in the war. The sorry state of Aleppo’s Old City, a labyrinthine World Heritage Site and a battlefield from 2012-16, is obvious...

Fighting in northwestern Syria has displaced nearly 140,000 people since February, the UN said on Wednesday, as the regime and its ally Russia have stepped up their bombardment. "Since February, over 138,500 women, children and men have been displaced from northern Hama and southern Idlib,"...

The Syrian government has raised the price it pays farmers for their wheat after the smallest crop in three decades in 2018, a pro-government newspaper said on Wednesday. Syria is expected to import around 1.5 million tonnes of mainly Russian wheat this year with local wheat procurement...

Three civilians have been killed and six others injured in regime attacks on residential areas in Syria’s northern de-escalation zones, local sources said on Wednesday.  The overnight airstrikes and shelling targeted Idlib province's towns of Termela, Keferin, Mintar as well as Hama...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized European countries he said were refusing to take back Islamist militants being held in Syria by coalition forces. "European countries are not helping at all, even though this was very much done for their benefit," he said in a tweet. "They are...

Shelling of areas in northwestern Syria in the past three days has damaged a medical centre and put two hospitals out of service, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "The UN is deeply disturbed by three separate reported attacks on hospitals and health facilities in northwestern Syria,...

Russia will not allow the de-escalation zone in Syria’s Idlib to be a “safe zone” for terrorists, presidential envoy for Syria said on Monday. “No one is interested in it. The fight against terrorists will no doubt continue, but this will require additional time. We still work on it, and...

Two civilians were killed by Syrian regime shelling Monday near a Turkish observation point in the opposition-held de-escalation zone in Idlib, northwestern Syria. The attack almost hit a Turkish observation point located in the Zawiya region, northwest of Hama, said Anadolu Agency...

The return of the remains of Israeli soldier Zechariah Baumel is still viewed as a scandal. A scandal after a scandal, the last of which is one of two Syrians whom the regime has asked to be released. This person does not only have a long criminal record, with the testimony of the criminal...

It was only when his children began to starve that Abdullah al-Amour decided time had come to leave the sanctuary of Rukban camp with his family to face an uncertain fate back under Syrian President Bashar Assad. The cattle trader from Palmyra fled to Rukban on the Syrian border with Jordan...

A South African charity said Sunday it had received video evidence that a freelance photographer kidnapped in Syria was alive, over two years after he was captured. Shiraaz Mahomed was kidnapped on January 10, 2017, travelling to the Turkish border from a hospital supported by the Gift of...

At least five civilians have been killed in an airstrike on residential areas in Syria’s northern de-escalation zones, local sources said on Sunday.  The sources said an unidentified warplane raided late Saturday Qalaat Al-Madiq town and Al-Hawash village, both located in the western...