AMMAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - When the U.S. military targeted Islamic State commander Maher al-Agal with a drone strike in northern Syria in July, there was little chance it would miss. The reason? Revenge. With Islamic State's last battle-hardened forces holed up in remote areas, the United...

The outbreak of cholera in Syria presents a serious threat to people in the war-torn country and the region, a U.N. official said Tuesday, adding that urgent action is needed to prevent further cases and deaths. The statement by the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, Imran...

A new set of leaks reveals some of the darkest chapters during the Syrian civil war, with a whistleblower providing evidence of up to 800 civilian deaths (MEE - Elis Gjevori) A military defector from the government has revealed the horrors inflicted on captives at one of the most notorious...

Six Syrian refugees, including two infants and a child, have been found dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. “They died of thirst, hunger and severe burns. This is unacceptable,” the UNHCR’s representative...

Zaman Al-Wasl (Exclusive)- A gruesome collection of images of about 800 dead torture detainees taken by a new defected military photographer in 2014 in the Aleppo Central Prison. The images that recalls Caesar torture photos were leaked by the photographer to Zaman al-Wasl    Zaman...

 Islamic State fighters on Sunday have attacked the military sites of the regime forces and the Russian-backed militias in eastern Syria, in conjunction with a heavy Russian airstrike on the desert region.   Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that ISIS cells carried out two attacks...

  The Syrian Interim Government said that the number of civilian victims of violations by the Syrian regime and the Kurdish PYD militias during the month of August amounted to 21 civilians, including 12 children, and 43 wounded, including 17 children.   The "Violations Documentation...

As the Arab League summit in Algeria, which is scheduled for the beginning of November, draws close, the country’s Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra announced last Sunday that, "Syria prefers not to propose its return to the League of Arab States during the next summit amid Algeria's efforts in...

 The Syrian Health Ministry on Saturday reported 16 cholera cases in the northern city of Aleppo. The first case, who was a nine-year-old child, has recovered after six days of treatment, the ministry said in a statement, confirming the outbreak of the infectious disease in the city...

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines – Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) released its annual report on monitoring the use of cluster munitions globally, affirming that Syria continues to be the worst country in the world in terms of the death toll from cluster munitions. "The...

Syrian regime airstrikes over the country’s northwestern Idlib province on Thursday killed seven civilians and wounded at least 12, activists and first responders said. The Syrian opposition, which now holds only a tiny sliver of the country, blamed Russian -backed warplanes for the attack....

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters arrested dozens of Islamic State militants and rescued four women who were being held chained in tunnels at the massive al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria that houses IS families, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The operation, which has gone on for two...

A building collapsed in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, including three children, the Syrian state television reported. The TV said the illegally built, five-story building in Aleppo's southern neighborhood of Fardous collapsed in the evening. It...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A group of 61 migrants picked up by a cargo ship from a crippled vessel in the central Mediterranean have safely reached Crete hours after a severely ill child on the freighter died while being airlifted to the Greek island, authorities said Wednesday. It was unclear...

A 17-year-old Syrian has been stabbed to death in an apparent racist attack in the south of Turkey. According to Gazete Duvar, Faris Muhammed Al-Ali was stabbed to death on Sunday by the 16-year-old son of a Turkish woman working at the same factory as him. Al-Ali was studying medicine...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday attended sweeping war games in his country's far east involving troops from China and other nations, in a show of military muscle amid the tensions with the West over Moscow's action in Ukraine. The weeklong exercise that began Thursday is intended...

6 September 2022 – Four children were killed after a unexploded ordnance (UO) detonated in an abandoned apartment in Idlib, North West Syria, on Monday, Save the Children said. This follows an explosion of another landmine on farmland in Homs in which three other children were killed two days...

 Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian migrants stranded for days on a sinking fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea are urging European coast guards to save them, saying that two children have died. The roughly 60 migrants told relatives and volunteer groups with a satellite phone that two...

Syrian media confirmed that there is a feverish campaign among citizens to buy firewood, including in major cities, such as Damascus, Aleppo and Homs, without waiting for the distribution of heating oil, which usually takes place in the eighth month of each year, while the ninth month entered...

Qamishli - Kamal Sheikho On the first day of the new school year this Sunday, more than 3.65 million students from various educational levels will attend 13,660 schools and institutes in the areas controlled by the Syrian regime, according to a statement by the Ministry of Education....