Women in Syria have been sexually exploited by men delivering aid on behalf of the UN and international charities, the BBC has learned. Aid workers said the men would trade food and lifts for sexual favours. Despite warnings about the abuse three years ago, a new report shows it is...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army ordered hundreds of teachers in northeastern Syria to join its ranks within a month, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. One of the teachers, who refused to mention his name, said about 700 teachers will be sacked from the Education...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Russia is playing a destabilizing role in Syria and acting as "both arsonist and firefighter" in the country, the head of U.S. Central Command said Tuesday. "Diplomatically and militarily, Moscow plays both arsonist and firefighter, fueling tensions among all...

GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Cross is ready to access Syria's besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta to deliver life-saving aid, but the proposed five-hour pause is too short, a senior ICRC official said in a statement Tuesday. Without mentioning Russia, the author of the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Photos circulated on social media showed Iranian cleric teaching the martial arts and Shiite doctrine to Syrian children in al-Mashhad neighborhood in northern Aleppo city.  The photos, which posted by the Iranian Militia Violations ’ Facebook page, were...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kremlin said Tuesday that the operation of an evacuation route that Russia helped open from besieged eastern Ghouta suburbs would depend on rebel forces whom it accused of holding civilians there hostage and of sabotaging the escape route. Russia, which backs...

The Kremlin said Tuesday that the operation of an evacuation route that Russia helped open from Syria's eastern Ghouta would depend on rebel forces whom it accused of holding civilians there hostage and of sabotaging the escape route. Russia, which backs the Syrian government, ordered a...

A fledgling "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia in Syria's rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta was rattled Tuesday by fresh air strikes and rocket fire, several sources said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported air raids, including the dropping of two...

IT’s a next generation combat jet of many names. It was the PAK FA. It was the T-50. Now it’s the Su-57. It’s Russia’s answer to the United States’ cutting-edge F-22 “Raptor” stealth fighter. Now, more than 15 years after the F-22 entered service, Russia is on the brink...

A five-hour humanitarian pause called by Russia came into effect in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday. The bombardment of Eastern Ghouta over the past week has been one of the heaviest of Syria’s seven-year war, killing at least 540 people in Eight days, according to a...

The Pentagon on Tuesday said it would support the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution for a 30-day humanitarian cease-fire in Syria but continue operations against the Daesh terror group. "[The Department of Defense] is going to support Department of States’ efforts to facilitate the...

MOSCOW: Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Monday that the Syrian army will suspend strikes on the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta during a daily five-hour truce, introduced from Tuesday, Interfax news agency said. Militants in the enclave are holding hundreds hostage, including...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the implementation of a daily ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta, starting Tuesday, and the creation of a "humanitarian corridor" via which civilians can leave, his defense minister was quoted as saying. The minister, Sergei Shoigu, said the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta with the country's national security council, TASS news agency said Monday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov said that Russia's security council expressed concern about the "provocative...

Syrian forces launched a ground offensive Monday on a rebel-held eastern Damascus suburb despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, as the U.N. chief denounced the violence in the embattled region, describing it as "hell on Earth." The...

Allegations that forces loyal to Syrian leader Bashar Assad were to blame for a chlorine attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta are a provocation aimed at sabotaging a ceasefire in the enclave, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying Monday. Lavrov said a 30-day ceasefire...

The U.N. rights chief Monday slammed a lack of action to rein in increasingly brutal conflicts around the world, describing places like Syria, Yemen and Myanmar as "prolific slaughterhouses". "Eastern Ghouta, the other besieged areas in Syria, Ituri and the Kasais in the [Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fresh bombardment by the regime army Monday killed at least 10 civilians in the besieged Eastern Ghouta subrubs, including nine members of a same family, a monitor said. Air strikes destroyed a building in Douma, the main town in the Eastern Ghouta area east of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad's first aide is on a 'security visit' to Italy following a two-year of collaboration between Rome and Damascus in the Intelligence and jihadists issues, a Lebanese daily said on Monday. The Hezbollah-funded Al-Akhbar newspaper said the Lebanese...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "Destroy the children of Ghouta; they are the children of terrorists, kill the women; they are the wives and mothers of the terrorists." This was a call by a pro-regime loyalist, Lama Dayoub, on her Facebook page to the regime army, Iranian militias and the Russian friends, and...