While Damascus cuts subsidies and Syrians prepare for a brutal winter, cosmetic surgeries are likely to boom after regulations are lifted A preliminary budget for 2023 has been passed by the Syrian government that includes a 24 percent rise in spending, as a long winter of uncertainty and...

Turkey plans to pursue targets in northern Syria after it completes a cross-border operation against outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in Iraq, a senior official said on Tuesday, after a deadly weekend bomb in Istanbul. The government has blamed Kurdish militants for the blast...

Two girls of Egyptian nationality, aged 12 and 15 years, were found dead on Monday in the Al Hol camp in North East Syria, Save the Children said, again highlighting the risks that women and children face daily in such conditions. The child rights organization said the exact circumstances of...

Prisoner amnesties decreed by the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, during the country’s 10-year war have freed less than 6% of detainees, with an estimated 136,000 people remaining in state prisons, a report has revealed. The amnesties, which were hailed as acts of benevolence by officials...

Funerals were held Monday for the six victims who died in Sunday's bombing in Istanbul, including a funeral for Arzu Ozsoy and her 15-year-old daughter Yagmur Ucar. Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed...

Four members of the same family were brutally murdered in Tartous, western Syria over a family dispute on Friday.  The interior ministry of the Syrian regime said in an announcement via Facebook that a man in the district of Khirbet al-Maaza had shot and killed his brother, his wife and...

 Israeli airstrikes killed two Syrian soldiers and wounded three others when they slammed into an airbase in the province of Homs, a Syrian army statement said. The statement said Israeli warplanes fired missiles after flying over neighboring Lebanon. It added that some of the missiles...

The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed that unemployment rates in northwest Syria have reached 85 percent, stressing that the issue of unemployment within the local community is one of the most pressing issues that need radical solutions. According to the statement of the local...

The number of malnourished children in North East Syria has surged by over 150% in the past six months with at least 10,000 more children now facing malnutrition than in the previous six months, according to new data[i]. The news comes as Syria faces its worst economic crisis since the start...

The pro-regime newspaper "Al-Watan" said Thursday that the Iranian government had recently taken a decision to raise the quantity of crude oil supplied to Syria to reach three million barrels per month. The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi had...

A relief group confirmed that the number of recorded cases of the "cholera" epidemic in northwestern Syria is still witnessing an increasing increase, with more than 50 new cases recorded since the beginning of this month. The IDP camps in the northwestern region, which include more than 1.8...

The Syrian opposition-held areas recorded a new suicide case of a displaced person residing in northern Aleppo countryside, bringing the number of suicides to 82 cases, 29 of which were "unsuccessful". Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl that an IDP from the town of Meng committed suicide ...

Newly installed turbine compressors at a gas facility in central Syria will lead to a production increase that will help ease the war-torn country’s electricity crisis, officials at the sprawling facility said Wednesday. The Syrian Gas Co. facility in the central province of Homs suffered a...

Berlin is turning a former airport into a temporary refugee shelter with 3,600 beds, as it struggles to put up more Ukrainians fleeing Russia's attacks on their country's vital infrastructure, as well as the winter weather. While two former terminals of Tegel Airport were already opened for...

A Syrian refugee has been sentenced to more than 17 years in what authorities said was a plot to plot to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 24, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on a guilty plea last year to a federal charge of attempting to...

 Late night airstrikes in eastern Syria along the border with Iraq targeted Iran-backed militiamen, inflicting casualties, Syrian opposition activists said Wednesday. According to two paramilitary officers in Iraq, some of those killed in the attack were Iranian nationals. It was not...

A house fire in northwestern Turkey believed to have been caused by a heater has left eight children and a woman dead, an official said Wednesday. The victims were Syrian refugees. The fire broke out late on Tuesday in the first floor of a four-story building in the Yildirim district in...

  ( The Bashar al-Assad regime’s practice of leasing out crop fields in Hama and Idlib through so-called auctions without the consent of displaced landowners is "illegal and unacceptable" and hinders the voluntary return of Syrian refugees, according to experts. Millions of Syrians have...

A Syrian journalist was among nine people killed in the southwest province of Daraa on Saturday after the media worker was targeted by a suspected Islamic State (IS) group sniper. Horan Free League media group spokesperson Ayman Abu Mahmoud said local factions backed by the regime's Eighth...

A new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people, the majority of whom are children, in Al-Hol, northeast Syria. The deaths of two boys while awaiting approval for emergency medical care are just two of many tragic...