The UN relief chief stressed Tuesday that nearly 17 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance. "A staggering 16.7 million people now require humanitarian assistance – nearly three-quarters of the population and the highest number of people in need since the start of the crisis,"...

Sexual abuse, beatings, yelling, deprivation of food, lack of medical care and psychological torment.  This was life in Israeli detention for Amena Hussain*. The Palestinian mother of three was abducted by Israeli forces from her place of refuge in the war-torn Gaza Strip in late...

LONDON (AP) — A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government's decision to  revoke her U.K. citizenship , with judges saying that it wasn't for them to rule on whether it was “harsh” to do so. Shamima...

The Syrian newspaper Al-Watan criticized the rise in fees for telecommunications services, especially since this is accompanied by a further worsening of the services provided, and the Syrian Telecom justification for raising tariffs with the aim of improving the quality of service is not...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli strikes hit a neighborhood of the Syrian capital on Wednesday morning, killing two people and causing material damage, Syria's state TV said. There was no confirmation of the strikes from Israel. The Syrian state TV reported that several missiles hit the...

Arecent operation by Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) uncovered an espionage ring linked to France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE). Led by Syrian national Ahmet Katie, the ring supplied false information and papers to French intelligence, which sought to...

Two members of the Russian-backed Palestinian Liwa al-Quds militia were killed on Saturday following an ISIS attack on a military point in the eastern countryside of Homs in the Syrian desert, informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Three other members were wounded in an Islamic State attack on...

The interior ministers of four Arab countries held talks in Jordan on Saturday to discuss ways of combatting the illegal  drug trade in the region  and agreed to set up a joint telecommunications cell to exchange information. The meeting between the interior ministers of Jordan,...

The Israeli army on Friday night bombed an Assad regime arms depot in southern Syria, it announced. “Overnight, in response to launches from Syria toward the southern Golan Heights which didn’t cross into Israeli territory, IDF (Israeli army) artillery struck the area of the fire, and...

At least three people searching for valuable truffles in the Deir Ezzor desert have been killed by the suspected Iran-run militia, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl on Friday. Two truffle pickers were also killed on Wednesday night, after they were targeted by unknown gunmen, likely...

The Syria Response Coordinators team confirmed that civilians in northwestern Syria face many dilemmas that have become a recurring phenomenon and are still continuing to this day. The local relief team stressed in its report the increase in suicide rates in the region, as last week there...

Palestinian teen Hussam al-Attar has literally brought light to a displacement shelter in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after he and his family fled from the ongoing Israeli offensive on the enclave.  The fifteen-year-old, nicknamed “Gaza's Newton,” uses old wind turbines to generate...

Daesh/ISIS constitutes a threat to international peace and security, UN Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov warned on Thursday.  "Daesh continues to pose a serious threat to international peace and security, notably in conflict zones, despite significant...

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Israel attacked Nairab International Airport in Syria's northern province of Aleppo. Two Israeli F-16 fighter jets fired cruise missiles Monday without entering Syria's airspace which struck the airport, the ministry said in a statement. Three...

Many Syrians who had fled the war face gross human rights violations and abuses upon their return to Syria, according to a  report  by the UN Human Rights Office released today. The documented violations and abuses have been perpetrated by the Government,  de facto ...

The US-Iraq Higher Military Commission resumed its dialogue Sunday on ending the US-led international coalition's mission in Iraq. The meeting was convened “to assess the military situation, the level of danger, and to establish a timetable for a gradual reduction ending the mission of the...

BEIRUT: Israeli strikes targeted a “residential building” west of the Syrian capital early Saturday, a war monitor said. Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syria since civil war broke out in the country in 2011, mainly targeting Iran-backed forces, including Hezbollah fighters as...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After hours of talking about faith and family, redemption and war, the grieving American mother had an additional question for the Islamic militant convicted in her son's murder. Do you know, Diane Foley asked, where my son is buried? The exchange is described in a new...

At least four people, including a child, were wounded when an explosive device planted in a motorcycle detonated in Afrin city, north of Aleppo province, the Civil Defense agency said on Tuesday.  The rescue group teams inspected the place and provided first aid to one of the injured...

A series of overnight Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday caused several casualties among civilians in the Syrian province of Homs and its countryside areas, according to the state-run news agency SANA. 
"A number of civilians were killed and injured along with material damage from the Israeli...