Syrian President Bashar Assad has tentative plans to visit Crimea in April 2019 and is in talks about starting regular passenger flights between Syria and the Black Sea peninsula, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. The agencies cited members of a Crimean delegation visiting Syria...

For seven years, Sheikh Mahmud al-Taweel had been unable to see relatives living in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But with the reopening of the Quneitra crossing Monday, the Syrian Druze hopes to reunite with them soon. As the Syrian national anthem blasted from...

Syrian opposition groups hope to see a viable cease-fire imposed in Idlib, Ahmed Tuma, former prime minster of the Syrian Interim Government, said at a Monday press conference convened in Istanbul. Speaking at a press conference organized by the Syrian National Coalition to discuss the...

Some four million civilians taking shelter in Syria's Idlib province -- with Turkey's efforts -- have been protected from a possible massacre and migration risk imposed by the Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies. Located in northwest Syria, Idlib has become one of the regions hit by the...

The border crossing between Jordan and Syria was opened on Monday after a three-year closure, according to a Jordanian government spokeswoman. “The Jaber-Naseeb border crossing will be open for 8 hours a day,” Jumana Ghunaimat said Monday. She said technical committees from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian historic cities of Aleppo and Palmyra were presented in the “Endangered Heritage Protection Fair” in the Institute of the Arab World in Paris this week, with the participation of the Louvre Museum and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...

A deadline passed Monday without militants leaving a planned buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib as set out under a Russian-Turkish deal. The radical fighters were supposed to withdraw from the buffer as a final condition to implementing a Russian-Turkish deal...

A Russian-Turkish deal to set up a buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion hung by a thread Sunday, as jihadists showed no sign of withdrawing hours before a deadline. The accord also provides for the clearance of heavy weapons from a U-shaped zone around the northwestern...

The border crossing between Jordan and Syria will reopen on Monday after being closed for years, a Jordanian government spokeswoman and Syrian state television said Sunday after weeks of talks. "This was a crucial artery of trade between Jordan and Syria and transit to other countries,"...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday threatened to inflict "very strong blows" on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the group. "Hamas has apparently not understood the message – if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in...

Rebels have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwest Syria, an activist group said Sunday, days after they were meant to have withdrawn such weapons from the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in the zone fired several "mortar shells at an army...

Hundreds of people were taken by Daesh (ISIS) fighters from a displacement camp in east Syria during a militant counterattack against advancing U.S.-backed forces, an activist group said Saturday. The militants raided the camp Friday, taking "more than 100 families" including relatives of...

The United Nations, Israel and Syria reached an agreement to reopen the Qunaitra crossing in the Golan Heights Monday, the United States announced Friday, urging the two Middle East countries to facilitate the work of peacekeepers in the zone. "The United States welcomes the reopening...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities arrested Syrian army defector in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay Province, activists said Saturday. No further details revealed of the arrest of Major Khaled al-Issa, the former military pilot in the Syrian air force.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For the seventh consecutive Friday, thousands of Syrians came out to the streets of rebel-held areas to rally against the regime and key ally Russia. The demonstrations took place in the opposition areas in the provinces of Idlib, Latakia, provinces....

Syrian regime's army Friday warned residents of the country’s last major rebel bastion to stay away from militants, who have yet to withdraw from a buffer zone ahead of a looming deadline. Regime ally Moscow and rebel backer Ankara agreed last month to set up a demilitarized area around the...

 Russia is urging Germany and France to break ranks with their American ally and help rebuild Syria so that refugees can go home, a senior adviser to the Russian government said. There’s little prospect of a deal with the U.S., which is now vowing to keep troops in Syria until Iran...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh militants have renewed their attacks on the US-backed fighters in eastern Deir Ezzor province following intense battles. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says the fighting Thursday is over the village of Souseh where a sandstorm has caused bad...

France’s foreign ministry said on Friday that it had asked Saudi Arabian authorities to provide transparent and detailed answers over the fate of veteran Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi after he disappeared in Turkey. The video could not be loaded, either because the server or...