Kazakhstan will start in March its first independent UN peacekeeping mission in the Middle East, the government announced. Both chambers of the parliament on Friday voted for the proposal of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to send 139 Kazakh peacekeepers to the Golan Heights in Syria....

The tents of 525 families were submerged in camps from heavy rainfall in the northwestern province of Idlib in Syria where civilians are fleeing attacks by Syrian army forces.  The White Helmets civil defense group said in a statement that due to the downpour, the tents in 43 camps near...

BEIRUT, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Suspected Jordanian air strikes on southern Syria killed 10 people including children early on Thursday, according to local Syrian media and monitors tracking the conflict. There was no immediate comment from Jordanian authorities. Jordan's army has stepped up a...

PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into how the group kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The procedural...

 The pro-regime  SyriaSteps website confirmed the news of the arrest of one of the most prominent merchants in the Syrian war, Khader Ali Taher, known as Abu Ali Khader, on charges related to smartphone trading. The website, which is close to the regime's intelligence...

At least 11 members of the regime's intelligence were killed in a sophisticated infiltration operation carried out by the Islamic State group on Monday evening in the Palmyra Badia desert in the eastern countryside of Homs, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The ISIS militants...

Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at positions of "terrorist groups" in Syria and Iraq late Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. The IRGC said a "spy headquarters" and a "gathering of anti-Iran terrorist groups" in Syria were destroyed with...

Groups supported by Iran launched Sunday a missile attack on the US base of Koniko in the Deir ez-Zor province, eastern Syria, local sources said. The US air defense forces intercepted two of the missiles before they hit the base, while one missile landed in the vicinity. In response, US...

By Omaima Mohammad and Abdul-Hamid Haj Mohammad    (Zaman Al-Wasl)- Grandmother Umm Hani, who lives in the city of Idlib, which is under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, in northwestern Syria, struggles to educate her four grandchildren, “Kawkab, Hala, Reem and the...

The Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday targeted a convoy of Bashar al-Assad regime forces in central Syria, killing nine people and injuring 20 others, local sources said. The attack launched with heavy weapons took place in Palmyra in the central Homs province. The regime media has not...

US military bases in Syria's Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor provinces came under attack Monday from kamikaze drones and rockets of unknown origin. According to information from local sources, an attempt was made to attack a US base in the Conoco gas field in Deir ez-Zor with rockets while the...

The Israeli army announced on Monday that it had assassinated Hasan Okasha, a military leader for the Hamas group in Syria, alleging he was involved in firing rockets toward Israel. In a brief statement, the Israeli army disclosed that the operation took place in Beit Jinn town, located in...

At least five civilians were injured on Sunday in a shelling by the regime forces on the countryside of Idlib province in northwestern Syria. The regime forces and Iran-backed foreign terrorist groups targeted the village of Sarmin in eastern Idlib, an Anadolu correspondent reported. The...

Jordan on Thursday launched air strikes inside Syria against suspected warehouses and hideouts of Iranian-backed drug smugglers, Jordanian and regional intelligence sources said. The army has stepped up a campaign against drug dealers after protracted clashes last month with dozens of...

The regime's Syrian Trade Corporation raised the prices of food items listed on the smart (subsidy) card, which were distributed only once on the card during the year 2023. Under the new pricing, the price of a liter of vegetable oil became 22,500 pounds, a kilo of sugar became 14,000...

Abu Muhammed revealed to Anadolu the torture he endured during his nine days in captivity in the besieged Gaza Strip under attack by Israeli forces.   Israel faces accusations of torturing detained Palestinians since it attacked Gaza on Oct. 7. Muhammed, detained in a raid in...

The Hague – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed in a report released today, that it documented at least 2,317 cases of arbitrary arrest/detention in 2023, including of 129 children and 87 women, with 232 cases documented in December. The report stresses that Syrian regime forces...

DUBAI, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A Syrian military statement said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday that came from the direction of the Golan Heights targeting positions in the outskirts of Damascus caused some material damage, Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported. There was no immediate...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants Saturday, two members of Iraqi militia groups told The Associated Press. The strikes on the border region of Boukamal came hours after an umbrella group of...

Syrian dissident Riad Turk, who has been compared to Nelson Mandela for spending years in prison for his staunch opposition to the government, died Monday in exile in France, his daughter said. "My father died peacefully and satisfied of what he has accomplished, surrounded by his two...