Syria said on Saturday the country’s main airport in Damascus would resume international flights starting next week after such commercial trips were halted following last month’s ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. “We announce we will start receiving international flights to and from...

The Military Operations Department seized an ammunition depot in Al-Zahraa neighborhood in Homs city on Saturday. SANA news agency said that "the Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Military Operations Department, is following up on the combing campaign in Homs city and its...

Syria's foreign minister has told Saudi Arabian officials that the new leadership in Damascus wants to set up a government involving all parts of Syrian society following the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad last month. Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shibani was making the first foreign trip by a...

Germany on Friday called for international efforts to hold the perpetrators of the Assad regime accountable for their crimes, according to press reports. The lives of the victims of the regime of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad who died there cannot be brought back, said Foreign Minister...

Violent clashes erupted between the Turkish-backed" Syrian National Army and the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Tishreen Dam area in the countryside of the city of Manbij, east of northern Aleppo province, activists said on Thursday. Local residents told Zaman al-Wasl that the...

Israel bombed Syrian army positions south of Aleppo on Thursday, the latest such strikes since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor and local residents said. Residents reported hearing huge explosions in the area, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Thursday received his Syrian counterpart Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani at the headquarters of the Saudi foreign ministry in Riyadh, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent. Al-Shaibani arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday alongside...

Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported Thursday, with a monitor saying targets include protest organizers from the Alawite minority of the former president. “The Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Military Operations...

Zaman al-Wasl learned that the competent authorities in the Syrian government took over the management of the Lahn al-Hayat orphanage complex in the Qudsaya area and the "Al-Rahma" orphanage after the newspaper published details about the presence of children of detainees in the complex, as...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new Syrian administration, Asaad al-Shaibani, revealed on Wednesday a study to extend the validity of passports of Syrians abroad. Al-Shaibani said, in a post on the X platform: "The Department of Consulates and Expatriates has directed the necessity...

The Saudi King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center launched an air bridge on Wednesday to support the Syrian people, who are suffering from extreme poverty due to the near-total collapse of the country's economy. Earlier, the center announced in a post on the X platform the launch of...

Syria’s minister of information in the country’s transitional government told AFP he is working towards a free press and committed to “freedom of expression”, after decades of tight control under the country’s former rulers. “We are working to consolidate freedoms of the press and...

The US-led international coalition forces continue to send military reinforcements to their bases in northern and eastern Syria, coming from their bases in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, via the Al-Waleed border crossing. Informed sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that the international...

Six civilians were injured on Tuesday evening when a car bomb exploded in a market in the city of Tal Rifaat in Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria, the Civil Defense Organization reported.  Security forces cordoned off the area where the explosion occurred, causing material damage to...

Syria’s new administration named Murhaf Abu Qasra on Tuesday as the country’s defense minister. The state news agency SANA said that Abu Qasra was appointed a defense minister in the new interim government. The appointment was part of efforts to restructure Syria’s state institutions following...

The Syrian Civil Defense found 3 mass graves in the village of Al-Qabu in the Homs countryside, and the remains of 20 people have been recovered so far. The rescue agency said on its Facebook account that 16 graves have been discovered so far, and completely burned bodies were found inside...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein held a phone call Monday with his Syrian counterpart Asaad Al-Shibani to discuss bilateral relations and coordination on issues of mutual concern, according to a statement from the Iraqi foreign ministry. The statement said that Hussein began the call by...

Israeli tanks and armored vehicles invaded the city of Al-Baath in the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria, where occupation soldiers expelled employees from government departments under the pretext of inspection, local activists said on Monday. This move comes within a series of recent...

Syria hopes for “strategic partnerships” with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new rulers in Damascus amid waning Russian influence. Russia was a staunch ally of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and has given...

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya confirmed on Monday that his visit to Damascus is a “message of Gulf solidarity” with Syria, calling for the removal of international sanctions on the country. Speaking at a press conference in Damascus with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani...