ISIS leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi's six-month rule ended when he detonated a suicide vest during a Turkish special forces raid in northwest Syria on Saturday after refusing to surrender, a senior Turkish security official said. The third ISIS leader to die by detonating an explosive vest...

A number of Lebanese lawyers have condemned the forced deportations of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, stressing that calls for handing over Syrian refugees and prisoners to the Assad regime is a crime against humanity. Lawyer Muhammad Sablouh told Zaman al-Wasl that the Lebanese government...

DUBAI — Saudi authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle more than 5 million amphetamine tablets into the country in a shipment of stones through a Jeddah seaport Monday. The Saudi Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) made the announcement, the latest in a...

Israeli airstrikes targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo early Tuesday, killing one Syrian soldier and putting the airport out of commission, state media said. Syria's state news agency SANA, citing a military official, said two civilians and five other...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's top diplomat said on Monday that regional talks with Syria are a step in the right direction to end a decade of the war-torn country’s political isolation and bring Damascus back into the Arab fold. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi's remarks came as...

Palestinian refugee Basel Mustafa Al-Khatib, 35, from Sbeineh camp in Damascus countryside, confirmed the news of his forcible deportation by the Lebanese authorities to the Syrian territories. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria quoted Al-Khatib as saying that he had not entered the...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group was killed in an operation by Turkish intelligence teams in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced. Turkey's state media said the IS leader blew himself up to avoid capture. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT...

The international coalition forces, led by the United States of America, conducted military exercises in one of their military bases deployed in the Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Syria. A local source in the countryside of Al-Hasakah province told Zaman al-Wasl that the International...

Suspected Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian province of Homs early Saturday, state media reported. Syria's state news agency, SANA, citing military officials, said that three civilians were wounded in the strike and that a civilian fuel station caught fire and a number of fuel tankers...

The German newspaper Welt reported that last year 28,336 foreigners obtained German citizenship in Bavaria, increasing the number of citizens by more than 22 percent compared to the previous year. The newspaper said, quoting Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, on Friday, that the...

Thursday's exchange rate reached 8,000 Syrian pounds to the US dollar for the first time in a number of Syrian cities. The Damascus dollar" had risen by 120 pounds, during the past 24 hours. Compared to the prices recorded at noon on Wednesday, until 4:00 a.m. Thursday, the “Damascus...

A man arrested over last week's stabbing attack at a gym in western Germany in which four people were wounded is now also a suspect in a fatal stabbing earlier this month, prosecutors said Thursday. The 26-year-old Syrian, whom authorities are identifying only as M.D. in line with German...

A van carrying 29 people from Syria pushed a patrol car off the road as officers tried to stop the vehicle near Germany's border with Poland, police said Wednesday. No one was hurt. Off-duty officers noticed the van weaving through traffic and nearly causing an accident near Goerlitz on...

German authorities have arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of planning to carry out an explosives attack motivated by Islamic extremism, officials said Tuesday. Federal police said officers arrested the 28-year-old man early Tuesday in the northern city of Hamburg based on a court-issued...

Syria regime on Tuesday condemned the European Union’s new sanctions on Damascus over making and trafficking an amphetamine saying the move was based on lies. The Syrian Foreign Ministry statement came a day after the EU imposed sanctions on several Syrians, including members of President...

Russia's defense minister hosted his counterparts from Iran, Syria and Turkey on Tuesday for talks that were part of the Kremlin's efforts to help broker a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments. The Russian Defense Ministry said the talks focused on “practical steps to...

The EU on Monday updated its Syria sanctions list with 25 new individuals and eight entities, including the head of the Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad’s family members and those responsible for drug trafficking. 
EU foreign ministers approved adding 25 individuals and eight entities to the...

A meeting of defense ministers and intelligence chiefs of Türkiye, Russia, Syria, and Iran will be held in Moscow on Tuesday, the Turkish national defense minister said on Monday. Hulusi Akar said Turkish, Russian, and Syrian defense ministers and intelligence chiefs met in Moscow on Dec. 28...

Syria's state media said Israel shelled targets in southern Syria early on Monday, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, causing unspecified material damage. There was no immediate comment from Israel. The report on the state SANA news agency said Israeli forces targeted the town of Talat...

The Austrian Public Prosecutor's Office for Economics and Corruption prepared an indictment for war crimes in Syria, against a former regime intelligence officer who managed to escape from France to Austria with the help of the Israeli Mossad and obtained political asylum. The indictment...