Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of the six-month-old siege imposed  on the town of Madaya northwest of  Damascus has risen to 31, local activists and medics said Wednesday. Of 31 deaths in Madaya in recent weeks, 10 were attributed to a lack of food and the rest were either shot...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front rebels launched new attack early Wednesday on regime army in the northern frontline of Sheikh Miskeen town in Daraa province, sources said. 'Ahl al-Nakhwa' battle has left number of regime soldiers dead and two tanks destroyed, field commander said....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime and rebel bombardment killed at least 20 civilians and wounded dozens in the capital and a nearby Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Wednesday, state media and am activist group said. Mortar rounds fired from the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region onto residential...