Russia's Defense Ministry said on Friday it had sent detailed proposals to Washington on organizing the return of refugees to Syria after agreements reached by President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, the RIA news agency said. Trump and Putin met at a summit in...

U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed regime forces close in on the area. Two officials familiar with the plans said Thursday that the U.S., Britain and...

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to fire the bodyguard who was caught on camera hitting a May Day protester after "new facts" emerged about the alleged misdemeanor, the president's office said on Friday. The man was also being questioned by police on Thursday over the...

The United Nations refugee agency appealed to all sides in Syria on Friday to provide safe passage for 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting in the southwest so that they can receive aid and shelter. The UNHCR also said it was ready to discuss with Syria and Russia their plan to set up...

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Thursday he has received no new guidance from the Pentagon on cooperating with Russia in Syria following a U.S.-Russia summit that Moscow says focused heavily on Syria. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained he names of detainees who have been freed due to the evacuation deal of the Shiite villages of al-Foua and Kefraya on Wednesday. About 1500 people, including 126 women and 75 children, were freed by the regime security and the Lebanese...

Ten buses entered a village in Syria's Qunaitra province in the southwest on Thursday night to start evacuating insurgents to rebel territory in the north, state TV said. Damascus is set to recover control of the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in a major victory over...

The Syrian regime news agency SANA said Thursday there are reports that rebels had agreed a surrender deal in the southwestern province of Qunaitra at the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Reuters could not independently confirm the report. If verified, the move...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes continued between Daesh and US-backed forces in eastern as the radical group battling to keep its control on an oil-rich area between Hasaka and Deir Ezzor provinces, activists said Wednesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces have seized 16 villages in two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two members of the US-backed forces were killed on Wednesday by unknown assailants in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said. The attack on the Syrian Democratic Forces took place in the village of al-Zer east of al-Basira town.   A child boy...

Russia's defense ministry said on Wednesday Russian and Syrian authorities had set up a refugee center in Syria to help refugees return home from abroad. The defense ministry said in a statement that the Centre for the Reception, Allocation and Accommodation of Refugees will "monitor...

Dozens of buses reached two Syrian government loyalist villages under siege from insurgents in the northwest, as part of a deal to evacuate residents on Wednesday, state media said. Some 6,000 people will leave, emptying out the mostly Shiite villages of al-Foua and Kefraya, a commander...

Unidentified air strikes have killed 18 civilians in a rebel-held pocket of southern Syria as regime ally Russia presses talks for Damascus to retake the area, a monitor and local activists said Wednesday. The deadly strikes late Tuesday hit Nawa, the last town under rebel control in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 regime forces from coastal Latakia province have been killed in the last four weeks, pro-regime activists and news feeds said. Many of the slain soldiers were killed by Daesh and the US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria and in southern Syrian as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iranian facility hit by Israel in northern Aleppo province on Sunday was severely damaged, according to fresh satellite images posted on Tuesday by the Israeli media. The regime-run media denied that the Israeli rockets had targeted Iranian base, saying Israel...

Thousands of people will be evacuated from two besieged pro-regime towns in Syria in exchange for the release of prisoners held in government jails, an activist group said Tuesday. Under a deal brokered by regime ally Russia and Turkey, Al-Foua and Kfarya, the last besieged towns in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias took strategic hilltop in southwestern Syria after four years of rebels control, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Capture of Tel al-Harra followed the regime control the town of al-Harra,a strategic territory near the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians, including 8 children, were killed Tuesday in Russian airstrikes hit a town at the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights fence, local activists said. The strikes targeted a school in the town of Ayn al-Tineh hosts tens of displaced families who fled...

Dozens of Syrians who approached Israel's frontier fence on the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary, began walking back towards nearby refugee encampments after being warned off by the Israeli military. "Go back before something bad...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new ceasefire deal would take place in the coastal region, Bashar al-Assad's heart town, brokered by Russia and Egypt, pro-regime news feeds said Monday. The deal comes as Assad eyes on his hometown in Latakia province to eliminate last rebel strongholds in the...