NGO workers in Hungary could soon face prison after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government tabled what it calls the "Stop Soros" laws to parliament Tuesday, targeting "organisers of illegal migration". According to the text of the legislation, helping asylum-seekers to acquire refugee...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozen of civilains were wounded Tuesday when the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces opened fire to disperse outraged crowd near an oil field in Deir Ezzor province, local activists said. The tension erupted when a civilian was beaten by members of the Kurdish-led...

Georgia said Tuesday it had started procedures to sever diplomatic relations with Syria after Damascus recognized its breakaway regions as independent states, a move Tbilisi dubbed manipulation from Russia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia in wars in the early 1990s...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) fighters attacked bastions of the U.S.-backed militia east of Deir Ezzor city , .killing dozens, activists said Tuesday The attack near al-Sha'fah town followed slow gains by the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the eastern bank of...

The Syrian regime army has completed preparations for an imminent offensive against rebel-held areas in southwestern Syria, a non-Syrian commander in a military alliance that backs Damascus said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights separately reported that rebels in the...

Eleven opposition groups fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria formed a new alliance in northwestern Idlib province on Monday. The sources from the groups said they merged under the name of "National Front for Liberation." “The aim of the new formation is to unite...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish army has started issuing ID cards for the residents and the newly-settled people in Afrin region near the border amid claims of demographic change by the Kurdish militias, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The move evoked fears of the Kurdish rights advocates...

The Syrian regime has submitted a list of names to the United Nations as candidates for inclusion in a constitutional committee, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters Monday. Formation of the committee, which will rewrite the Syrian constitution, was agreed at a Syrian peace...

Jordan said Monday it was discussing developments in southern Syria with Washington and Moscow and that all three parties agreed on the need to preserve a "de-escalation" zone they brokered last year and which has reduced violence. A senior official who requested anonymity told Reuters...

A Syrian state-run newspaper says Damascus will keep fighting the country's rebels - or "terrorists" as the regime calls opposition fighters - despite U.S. warnings against a new offensive in southern Daraa province. Washington has cautioned it would take "firm and appropriate measures"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces stormed the bastion of the rival group in the eastern city of Raqqa, leaving three fighters killed, rebel source said Monday. The YPG-led forces that took control of once Daesh de-facto capital last October is pressing to expel Liwa...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that only Syrian government troops should have a presence on Syria's southern border, which is close to Jordan and Israel. Rebels hold stretches of that area and intensive Israeli airstrikes in Syria this month were prompted by what...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Defense Ministry on Sunday condem ned claims of looting the newly seized neighborhoods in southern Damascus after dozen of photos and footages documenting the massive raids of the civilians properties.  Local activists said regime forces that seized the...

The Iraqi parliament has no jurisdiction to annul the results of the country’s parliamentary election, firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Sunday. In a statement, al-Sadr’s spokesman Jaafar al-Moussawi said the election commission is responsible for looking into complaints about...

North Korean leader wants a "successful" summit with the U.S. president next month, but Kim Jong-un is yet to be convinced he can actually trust Washington to hold up any potential agreement, South Korean president said Sunday. Moon Jae-in made the remarks at a briefing following...

Four Russian military personnel have been killed and three Russian soldiers injured during a clash with militants in Deir ez-Zor, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday. “An artillery battery of the regime’s forces was attacked this night; two Russian military advisers, who...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces thwarted Daesh attack in Deir Ezzor province, killing four militants, activists said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) backed by the U.S. and French artillery pushed Daesh fighters to retreat from the district of al-Hawama...

The United States warned it would take “firm and appropriate measures” to protect a ceasefire in southern Syria if President Bashar Assad’s forces move against rebels there. The area in southwestern Syria, between the border city of Daraa and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, has...

Syrian regime's army has issued orders to return home for men conscripted for compulsory service in 2010, the year before war broke out, fighters and local media said Saturday. The decision ends the drawn-out deployment of thousands of Syrians who enlisted for the mandatory 18 months of...

The Saudi-led coalition said it has foiled an attempted attack by an unmanned drone in Saudi Arabia's southern city of Abha, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television channel reported on Saturday. The coalition said it has destroyed the drone as it attempted to approach Abha airport, which...