Human Rights Watch says millions of dollars of school aid for Syrian refugees went unaccounted for last year, leaving schools across the region understaffed and contributing to a massive under-enrollment of Syrian children. The New York-based group says more than a half million...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Ahrar on  Thursday  has defected from the powerful Tahrir al-Sham group over mounted abuses by the former al-Qaeda group in Syria, the key rebel faction said in statement. The new defection followed the withdrawal of the ultraconservative Ahrar...

Buses carrying evacuated Islamic State fighters reached Syria’s Deir al-Zor on Wednesday in return for releasing a Hezbollah prisoner, a commander in the pro-Damascus alliance told Reuters. Damascus and Hezbollah allowed nearly 300 lightly armed militants and 300 relatives to leave the...

After breaking an ISIS blockade, Syrian regime army is seeking to encircle the remaining extremist-held parts of Deir al-Zor city, a military source said Wednesday. The city is the capital of oil-rich eastern Deir al-Zor province, regarded as a strategic prize by both Russian-backed...

Flicking through before-and-after photos of Aleppo's Umayyad mosque on his phone, the city's mufti Mahmoud Akkam said he initially wanted the celebrated landmark to be restored by fellow Syrians. But when Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman chief of Russia's Chechnya region, offered to repair...

China signaled on Wednesday it was willing to back an international inquiry into atrocities in Yemen, as demanded by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, but Saudi Arabia and the United States said they did not support the idea. For three years running U.N. human rights chief...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Republican Palace, Bashar al-Assad's ruling office, has opened an urgent investigation tracking corrupt officers over arms sales and dealings with ISIS and rebels, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. A committee formed by Assad to lessen the anger of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of Syrian displaced fleeing the ISIS-held town of  Uqayribat  in Hama province  were arrested by regime forces and allied militias on Tuesday, claiming they are fighters in the radical group, local council member said. Zeyad Abu Abdo, press...

Iran signed deals with Damascus on Tuesday to repair Syria's power grid, state media said, a potentially lucrative move for Tehran that points to a deepening economic role after years of fighting in the Syrian conflict. Shunned by Western powers, the Syrian government is looking to...

   The Lebanese Shi‘ite group Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war while Russia said government forces had driven militants from 85 percent of the country where President Bashar al-Assad’s rule seemed in danger two years ago. The comments from two Syrian government...

 (Sputnik)- Units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) opposition alliance, manned mainly by Kurdish militias, promise not to attack the Syrian government forces in Deir ez-Zor, SDF spokesman Talal Silo told Sputnik on Monday. Earlier reports indicated that SDF units began their...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources in the National Coalition said Riad Saif, the head of the key Syrian opposition group, has been contacting Saudi officials from his own email over the Syrian peace process, viloationg the procedures set by the political body. Saif...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- The Interim Prime Minister of the Syrian opposition Government  said that the rebel factions in support of the Syrian Islamic Council and the Interim Government have agreed to appoint Major General Muhammad Faris as Defense Minister, Brigadier General Salim Idris as Chief...

(Eqtsad)- Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, the Syrian regime has been implicated as in calling killed soldiers and intelligence personnel martyrs, thinking that the crisis is short-term and thus the total of those who will be killed will not be large and that they can serve their...

Saudi Arabia has assured Russia that it supports a gradual process of negotiating local cease-fires and setting up "de-escalation zones" in Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, a day after meeting with Saudi leaders. Russia and Iran, Saudi Arabia's main regional foe, back...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 people killed  in Russian and Syrian airstrikes when they were fleeing the violence in Deir Ezzor aboard ferries along the Euphrates River, activists said on Monday. The deadly strikes come as regime army sent massive reinforcements ahead of a final...

Syrian regime army sent massive reinforcements to territory under its control in Deir Ezzor on Monday ahead of a final push for the Islamic State group-held half of the eastern city. The metropolis is the capital of the oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor, regarded as a strategic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Asayish Militia, security arm of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) banned on Sunday administrative staff and teachers affiliated to the Education Ministry of the regime from entering schools located in areas under its control with the start of the new school year 2017-2018....

Russia is to send 175 de-mining engineers to defuse mines in Syria’s Deir al-Zor, Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. The first detachment of 40 de-miners has already been deployed to Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria, the ministry said....

 Syrian regime forces and U.S.-backed militias converged on Islamic State in separate offensives against the militants in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias (SDF) said it had...