Germany has a special intermediary role allowing it to keep open the window for dialogue with Russia on the Syrian crisis, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. At a Berlin news conference alongside Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Maas also said the stalled...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people, including a child, were killed and 50 were wounded by an improvised explosive device rocked a demonstration condemning the US-French-British airstrikes in northeastern city of Raqqa, local activists said Monday. No rebel group claimed the...

A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and there was no fresh attack on Syria, a commander in the regional military alliance that backs the Syrian government told Reuters. Syrian state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down...

The Pentagon on Monday denied any involvement in an attack on a Syrian air base outside Homs city, not far from where U.S., U.K. and French missiles struck early Saturday morning.  “There are no US or Coalition operations in that area [Homs]. We don’t have anything additional to...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday Israel will not allow Russia to curb its activities in Syria, according to Israeli media reports. Speaking to Israel's Walla news website, Lieberman said Israel had successfully avoided “direct friction” with Moscow and was...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke over the phone on Monday evening about the recent developments in Syria. According to the presidential sources, two leaders focused on ensuring Syria's territorial integrity and the political process in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will travel to the Syrian city of Douma Wednesday, Russian Defence Ministry official Igor Kirillov said at a news conference in The Hague Monday. The United States have accused Russia of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed 6 civilians and wounded dozen in a de-escalation zone in central Homs province, rescuing group said Monday. The White Helmets organization said the strikes targeted the town of al-Za'faraneh in the northern countryside.   In...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 20 regime troops in an overnight attack in eastern Qalamoun region, rebel spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl on Monday. Jaish Tahrir al-Sham backed by Martyr Ahmed al-Abdu Units launched a surprise attack on regime checkpoints near the town of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog says that regime and Russian officials are citing "pending security issues" in keeping its inspectors from reaching the site of an alleged gas attack. Ahmet Uzumcu, the Director-General of the Organization for the...

More than 390 allegations of chemical weapon use in Syria have been recorded by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) since 2014, the British envoy to the group said Monday. “The Syrian regime has an abhorrent record of using chemical weapons against its own...

Syrian regime TV is airing interviews with nearly a dozen doctors and medics who say they found no trace of poisonous gas in the town of Douma, where opposition activists and first responders say a chemical attack by government forces killed more than 78 people. The suspected attack on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. embassy in Amman warned the key rebel alliance in southern Syria of taking any military action against the regime forces may undermine the U.S.-Russian brokered de-escalation zone agreement, a Saudi daily reported. According to the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, a...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday denied allegations made by the U.S. envoy to the global chemical weapons watchdog that Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma. "I can guarantee that Russia has not tampered with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in Dumayr east of Damascus have agreed to lay down their arms and to hand over the town to the regime army, local activists said Monday. The ‘surrender deal’ in the strategic town followed the fall of Eastern Ghouta and its capital, Douma. Such a victory...

Turkey's stance against the Syrian regime and Bashar al-Assad has never changed, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said on Monday. Speaking in Lefkosa, the capital city of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Hakan Cavusoglu welcomed the U.S.-led airstrikes on...

Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma, the U.S. envoy to the global watchdog said Monday, calling on the agency to act against ongoing use of banned poisonous weapons. "It is long overdue that this council condemns the Syrian...

(Zaman Al-Wasl)- Russian military police have withdrawn from Douma, less than ten days of the Moscow-brokered evacuation deal, amid wide deployment for regime troops in the key town of Eastern Ghouta suburbs, local activists said Monday. General Alexander Zourin, the Russian army...

The global chemical watchdog Monday opened emergency talks on the suspected poison gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma, diplomatic sources told AFP. The meeting has "just started," a source, who asked not to be named, said. Earlier the British, Russian and French ambassadors were all...

The African Union on Sunday urged the international community to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis. On Saturday, the U.S., U.K., and France launched airstrikes on the Assad regime's alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria. The strikes came after the Assad...