The former Syrian Minister of Economy, Lamia Assi, called for pricing wheat for farmers according to international prices, with the addition of shipping, insurance and other costs, and not based on a cost study. In a post she wrote on her personal Facebook page, Assi indicated that regime...

Washington's U.N. envoy visited southern Turkey on Wednesday to assess aid deliveries across the border into Syria as the Biden administration gears up for a likely showdown with Russia at the U.N. Security Council over the operation's renewal. The council mandate for the long-running...

BEIRUT (AP) — A rocket struck a residential area in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding others, opposition activist said. Some activists said that the rocket was fired on Tel Abyad by the U.S.-backed...

BERLIN (AP) — A German woman who took her young daughter to Syria, joined the Islamic State group there and allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman was convicted Wednesday of membership in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The state court in Celle said the...

Turkey's president said Wednesday his country was "entering a new phase" in its goal to create a 30-kilometer (19-mile) buffer zone south of the frontier. The territory is controlled by a Syrian Kurdish administration and Ankara says it has been used to launch attacks on Turkey. Recep...

The Syrian regime army sent reinforcements from the powerful First and Third Divisions to the Kurdish-held areas in northern Aleppo countryside at the contact lines with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The two military convoys came from...

After some of the heaviest shelling of Syrian territory by Turkish forces in months, six Russian helicopters, on Monday, staged a show of force along the border. The helicopters, filmed and reported on local and social media, appeared to have a clear and simple message: despite reports of...

The Syrian regime faced widespread criticism over a massacre of hundreds of civilians in the Damascus suburb of Tadamon. One of the chief suspects in the Tadamon massacre in Damascus is being held by the Syrian regime, a leading Syria monitor has confirmed. Amjad Youssef, who is accused...

A Kosovo court decided Monday to continue detaining two Albanian men who allegedly joined extremist groups in Syria. The Pristina court decided in separate cases in favor of prosecutors' requests to leave the suspects in detention for a month. A statement said one man, identified only as...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they are planning a major extension of a wall along the country’s border with Turkey and are seeking European Union financial support for the additional construction. Notis Mitarachi, the migration affairs minister, said the steel wall would be...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed Ankara’s planned military operation in northern Syria and the war in Ukraine with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Erdogan’s office said Monday. In recent days Erdogan has said Turkey will launch a cross-border incursion against...

POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter combat Sunday in an eastern Ukrainian city as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain a strategic foothold to conquer the region. Ukraine's leader made a rare frontline visit to...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president told journalists that Ankara remains committed to rooting out a Syrian Kurdish militia from northern Syria. “Like I always say, we’ll come down on them suddenly one night. And we must,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his plane following his...

The Assistant Minister of Higher Education for Scientific Affairs said that according to the data in the medical unions, more than 30 percent of the medical team has emigrated outside the war-torn country over the past 11 years.  Dr. Fadia Deeb revealed that the unprecedented shortage...

Albania's Interior Ministry on Saturday said four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, were repatriated from a Syrian camp. The group, which landed at the Pristina Adem Jashari Airport in neighboring...

Syrian-American artist Omar Offendum sets about reviving New York's “Little Syria” neighbourhood in a new music show, curated by American artist and music writer Hanif Abdurraqib and directed by Texas-native Josiah Davis. Offendum engages with the themes of heritage, uprootedness, and...

The denial of access for humanitarian efforts during armed conflicts is reinforcing a vicious cycle of killings and forced displacements, the US warned on Wednesday. The result of this can be seen in Syria where, after 11 years of the “Assad regime’s brutal war,” 14 million people rely on...

MADRID (AP) — The Olympic Refugee Foundation and the refugee Olympics team are the winners of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for sports, the Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes said Wednesday. The prize jury said that their work to help refugee athletes “merges the highest...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch authorities on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker accused of war crimes, marking the first arrest of a person in the Netherlands suspected of committing crimes in support of Syria's government. The man, whose name has not been released by...

Sanliurfa (Turkey) (AFP) – Samira hears the same message from Turkish politicians on the television day and night: Syrian refugees like her must return home. But her home near Damascus is still not safe, she says. The 44-year-old from Ghouta is one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees in...