At least seven civilians were killed and six others injured in attacks of Syrian regime forces and Iran-backed militias in de-escalation zones in northern Syria, according to a civil defense agency official Tuesday. “The Assad regime attacked the Seraqib and Khan Shaykhun districts as well...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reached out to at least 21 of its allies for troops and logistical support to prevent a resurgence of Daesh in Syria, but nearly half have declined so far, The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday. The Journal noted that the Trump administration...

The Syrian presidency Tuesday said its Instagram account has been blocked, one week after the photo-sharing website shut down the accounts of several Iranian Revolutionary Guards because of U.S. sanctions. A statement released on the presidency's other social media channels said the move...

France's top administrative court Tuesday rejected demands by Syria-based French women to be repatriated back to France, arguing that a judge could not rule on the issue given it involved negotiations with foreign authorities. "The Council of State (Conseil d'Etat) rejects the demands for...

They came from around the world, four women drawn to the Islamic State group's "caliphate." They said it was out of misguided religious faith or naivety or youthful rebellion, but whatever the reason, they tied their lives to a group that became notorious for its atrocities. Now after the...

Monday saw a prisoner swap between the Assad regime and Syria’s armed opposition as part of the Astana process, according to Turkey’s Foreign Ministry. “Several persons detained by the opposition groups and the regime were mutually and simultaneously released on April 22, 2019 with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Assad regime is striving to trim and confiscate lands of people revolted and demanded his departure. After forcibly displacing them, he moved to the stage of their expropriation of their property through seizing them or through controversial Law 10. Bashar al-Assad...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. is trying to avoid tension with Russia over Bashar al-Assad but it has adopted two ways to tighten noose on the Syrian dictator and his regime. The first way of dealing with the regime is to prevent the regime from getting U.S. Dollar through private and...

Aid organisations working in Syria say they are “extremely shocked” after the UK cancelled millions of dollars in cash assistance to the northeast of the country out of concern that money could be diverted to ISIS. “We have suspended the use of UK aid through cash transfers in northeast...

A civilian was killed while three others were injured on Monday when Syrian regime forces shelled opposition-held positions in northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, according to local sources. The sources, speaking anonymously for security reasons, told Anadolu Agency that the shelling had...

More help is urgently needed to encourage Christians to stay in Syria. That is the urgent message from an archbishop who has said that security problems, job instability and poor living conditions have left people “feeling like strangers in their own country.” Speaking with us during Holy...

 A well-informed source told EQTSAD news site that the Assad regime's army has revealed exclusive information that Iran and Hezbollah's militia have reduced the salaries of its fighters in Syria, indicating a financial crisis for these militias. The military source, who spoke on...

Sleeper cells, prisons teeming with jihadists, camps crammed with their wives and children -- perils abound in Syria, nearly a month after the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was declared defeated. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced victory over the IS proto-state on March...

Several Russian envoys met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and discussed a constitutional committee, trade, as well as the ways to improve Syria’s relations with neighboring Arab countries, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. Formation of a constitutional committee is key to political reforms...

A Bosnian national suspected of fighting for Islamic State in Syria has been transferred to Bosnia and put in detention, Bosnia’s prosecutor’s office said on Saturday. After the collapse of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq, countries around the world are wrestling...

Islamic State attacks on the Syrian army and allied militias in central Syria have killed 35 soldiers over two days, a war monitor said early on Saturday. Although Islamic State lost its last territorial enclave in Syria at Baghouz near the Iraqi border last month to U.S.-backed forces, it...

Dozens of women and children, relatives of Kosovo jihadists fighting in Syria, were flown back home by plane on Saturday under heavy security. “The planned operation for the return of some of our citizens from Syria has ended successfully,” Justice Minister Abelrad Tahiri said at the...

The United Nations has urged the international community to take responsibility for the children of their citizens who joined Isis in Syria, as thousands remain stranded in unsafe camps. An estimated 30 British children are currently languishing in camps across the Kurdish-held north of the...

An arched entrance flanked by two towers, elaborate carvings and a broad-aisled nave: a 5th century limestone church in northwestern Syria is the architectural forerunner of France's famed Notre-Dame cathedral. Hemmed by the village of Qalb Lozeh (Arabic for Heart of the Almond), the...

Speaker Nabih Berri and Syria’s ambassador to Lebanon Friday discussed “Israeli-Western schemes” in the Syrian civil war, a statement from Berri’s office reported. Following the meeting, held at Berri’s residence in Ain al-Tineh, Ambassador Ali Abdel Karim said he had spoken with the...