Syrians could be jailed for up to 15 years for minor criticism of the Assad regime following amendments to existing cybercrime laws. The draconian new changes were announced this week, laying out harsh penalties for vaguely worded offences including online criticism of the president,...

A Turkish soldier was killed and 8 others wounded, including six soldiers, on Friday evening due to artillery shelling by the Kurdish-led forces on the town of Marea in the northern Aleppo province, local activists said.

BEIRUT (AP) — For journalist Amer Matar, a decade-long search for his younger brother has defined him and changed the course of his life, now dedicated to researching and documenting crimes committed by the Islamic State group in Syria. His brother, Mohammed Nour Matar, vanished in Syria’s...

Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday attacked a bastion for Syrian regime army in the southern province of Daraa, taking several soldiers captive. In a video statement, the gunmen confirmed their control of the Ataman town's roundabout, and the capture of a group of Assad's forces and militias,...

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Tuesday that it is possible to restrict Syrian refugees' visit to the opposition-held areas in northern Syria during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Andolu Agency reported. Soylu confirmed in a press statement that the Turkish Ministry of Interior...

Greek authorities say they are searching for the captain of a small Polish-flagged sailboat found moored in a bay on the island of Salamina, near the country’s largest port of Piraeus, carrying five Syrian nationals who had been smuggled into the country from neighboring Turkey. Greece is a...

The Turkish Defense Ministry said Monday that 10 members of the People's Protection Units (YPG) were killed on the outskirts of Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria. The ministry stated in a tweet on "Twitter" that the Turkish army neutralized 10 members of the "People's...

The Dutch NRC reported that more than 90% of Syrians who applied for asylum in 2015 are now living in their own homes, and no longer live in KOA shelters.  The news site confirmed that nine out of ten people of Syrian or Eritrean nationality who applied for asylum in 2015 have been...

The cut in fuel allocations to gas stations caused a stifling transportation crisis in the city of Damascus, the effects of which became clear after photos of hundreds of citizens piling at the main bus station of the capital. Social media activists in the regime-controlled areas made calls...

The Islamic State declared responsibility for an operation against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of Deir Ezzor province, the pro-accounts of the group said on Telegram platform Sunday. In a statement, the IS claimed the killing of a member of the "SDF", following an...

BEIRUT (AP) — During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops “will lead to great...

​​The Syrian regime continues to detain more than 1,800 Palestinian refugees, including children, women and the elderly, many of whom have been forcibly disappeared.   On the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day, which falls on April 17 of each year, the Action Group for...

The Russian mediator in Syria warned Kurdish forces that Turkey would carry out an incursion should they reject Moscow's conditions to end the tensions between Qamishli and Damascus. Informed sources told the German news agency (dpa) that the mediator informed the Kurdish Syrian Democratic...

The US military says explosions earlier this month on a base in eastern Syria that injured several US service members were not, as it originally reported, caused by artillery or another form of indirect fire. Instead, it is now believed the April 7 attack was carried out by the “deliberate...

 The Syrian Civil Defense began the rehabilitation of a number of roads in the coastal camps and villages and towns in the western countryside of Idlib.   The White Helmets said the beneficiaries of these works are the people of the villages and towns (Khirbet Al-Jouz, Badria,...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Friday that the Syrian regime has acknowledged the deaths of 1,056 Syrian citizens who were forcibly disappeared by the regime through the country’s Civil Registry departments, including 54 individuals from Deir al Asafeer town whose fate...

Israel has fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military said Friday. State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the attack occurred shortly before midnight Thursday, adding that some of the Israeli...

Kurdish Asayish forces took control of state-run institutions in the northeastern city of Qamishli in response to Syrian regime forces siege on Kurdih -held neighborhood in Aleppo city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday.   The escalation came despite a Russian mediation to...

BERLIN (AP) — A man who allegedly launched a grenade into a crowd of civilians waiting for food in Damascus in 2014, killing at least seven people, has been charged in Germany with war crimes and murder, prosecutors said Thursday. The stateless man, identified only as Moafak D. in line with...

DARAA (Zaman Al-Wasl)- The fuel crisis in southern Daraa province is deepening and getting worse day by day as no fuel shipments have been delivered since last March and the majority of residents received only 50 liters of subsidized heating allowances during the winter season. This was...