Adolescent boys are systematically being separated from their mothers in detention camps in northeast Syria, a UN expert said Friday, warning the practice was causing irreparable harm and violated international law. Fionnuala Ni Aolain said that during a visit to the Kurdish-controlled...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian fighter jet flew very close to a U.S. surveillance aircraft over Syria, forcing it to go through the turbulent wake and putting the lives of the four American crew members in danger, U.S. officials said Monday. The officials said the incident, which happened just...

Iraq’s prime minister held talks Sunday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus during the first trip of its kind to the war-torn country since the 12-year conflict began. The two leaders told reporters that they discussed fighting drugs, the return of Syrian refugees and the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Syrian regime gave a green light Thursday for the United Nations to use a key crossing from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest that was closed earlier this week, but it wants to take away U.N. control over aid deliveries to the region. Syria’s U.N....

 Syrian Kurdish fighters carried out an attack early Monday in northern Syria, killing at least five members of Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces, activists said. The attack south of the northern town of Afrin, which is held by the Turkey-backed forces, took place shortly after...

The delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s opposition-held northwest from neighboring Turkey is virtually certain to get a green light to continue from the U.N. Security Council — but the big question is for how long. The council’s current authorization for aid deliveries through the Bab...

Zaman al-Wasl learned that the Russian forces on Wednesday have started ground-air military exercises  in partnership with the regime forces in the countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria. A local observatory of air traffic and regime forces' movements told Zaman al-Wasl that the...

Jordan's foreign minister Monday called for international investment into conflict-ravaged Syria's crippled infrastructure to speed up refugee returns. Ayman Safadi made the remarks during a visit to the capital Damascus, where he met with Syrian President Bashar Assad and his counterpart,...

June witnessed a sharp increase in arrests by regime forces in the southern province of Daraa and a continuation of kidnappings and assassinations, according to the Horan Free League . In its monthly report, the League recorded the killing of 38 people in Daraa, including two women and a...

The Syrian regime’s Interior Ministry issued a list of promotions and appointments for the ministry's officers, with a number of officers being appointed to leadership positions. The Ministry of Defense also promoted and appointed a number of its officers, as Brigadier General Asif Al-Daker...

Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement. A Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded over Israeli territory, the Israeli military said, prompting another round...

In her small apartment in opposition-held Idlib in northwest Syria, Umm Mohammed is depressed and lethargic. But when her phone rings or someone knocks on the door she becomes suddenly alert. Maybe, finally, her husband has come back. In 2013, Syrian soldiers broke into the couple’s home in...

 A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. Her parents immediately feared the worst — that she had been persuaded to join the group and was taken to one of its training camps. The girl,...

An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least ten people, activists and local first responders said. Activists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President...

A convoy carrying U.N. aid entered Syria’s last rebel-held enclave from regime-held territory on Friday, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since February’s deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. The convoy with humanitarian supplies crossed from a...

Israeli police on Wednesday fired tear gas, sponge-tipped bullets and a water cannon during mass demonstrations by Druze Arabs in the Occupied-Golan Heights — a rare burst of violence in the normally quiet area. At least 20 people were reported injured. Thousands of Druze residents of the...

Tahrir al-Sham's security apparatus arrested on Friday a member of the Free Lawyers Syndicate in northwest Syria amid calls for his immediate release, the opposition's group stated on Saturday. The Free Lawyers Syndicate said in a statement that members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at the...

 At least three civilians were injured Saturday in a rocket attack by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on a displaced camp in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo province, one of the strongholds of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl...

The White Fingers Volunteer Team launched a free educational initiative aimed at providing free courses for middle school students in the border city of Azaz with Turkey, days before the start of exams in the opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria. "The aim of the initiative is to...

The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them. The statement by the Autonomous Administration of North and...