The Jordanian Customs said on Tuesday they had seized more than about 1.4 million Captagon pills smuggled by a Syrian truck.   The Customs Department said in a statement that a suspicious truck loaded with home furniture was subjected to an x-ray machine. During a close inspection, the...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sent huge military reinforcements to the Mahin area in the eastern countryside of Homs in order to protect its warehouses, an informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The IRGc brought on Monday evening brought new reinforcements from the city of Palmyra in...

Four militants of the Iraqi Hezbollah Battalions were killed and five more wounded in a surprise attack by the "Islamic State" group near the town of Al-Sukhna in the Syrian Badia desert, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The attack targeted a military headquarters in the Al-Taybeh...

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria completed a field study on the return of the displaced and the reconstruction of the "Yarmouk" camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus. The study included the decisions to return the people issued by the regime authorities, the procedures they...

A German woman returning from Syria (Verina-M) may prosecuted and imprisoned to several years on charges of membership in a "terrorist organization" and "kidnapping of children", according to the German Bild daily.   Verina-M returned to Germany and is now standing before the "Düsseldorf...

The "Iraqi Hezbollah" militia has deployed military reinforcements in the desert Sukhnah town in the eastern Homs countryside on Friday.   Zaman al-Wasl sources said the reinforcements were brought from Damascus to set up several military points, in addition to establishing two exercise...

The Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria confirmed that with the advent of the Holy month of Ramadan, prices witnessed an "insane" rise which mounted the suffering of the residents of Daraa camp for Palestinian refugees, who suffer from harsh living conditions and poverty.  ...

The Iraqi National Security Adviser held a security conference in Baghdad on Saturday to urge European Union countries to take back their citizens from al Hol camp in Syria. The conference was held at the Al-Nahrain Center for Strategic Studies and was attended by the Special representative...

The Syria Response Coordinators team confirmed that three out of five Syrians suffer from food insecurity, after the continuous rise in food prices and the deterioration of living conditions across Syria.   The local relief group said in a statement that despite the fact that the number...

Russian warplanes on Saturday renewed their airstrikes using high-explosive missiles on the Jabal al-Zawiya region in the northern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in northern Syria.   Informed rebel sources said that two Russian warplanes carried out eight raids on Saturday...

Twelve years into the war in Syria, thousands of families “remain in the dark” when it comes to the fates of their missing relatives, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the General Assembly on Friday.  “The scale of this tragedy is daunting, with people going missing in...

Geneva – All concerned parties should take urgent action to provide relief support to the displaced Syrians in the al-Rukban camp on Syria's southern border with Jordan as the humanitarian crisis intensifies with the depletion of basic materials, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a...

More than $1.5bn (£1.2bn) worth of personal property including cars, olive groves, shops, houses, electronics and jewellery has been seized by the Syrian government from citizens accused of joining anti-government protests, according to a rights group. The Association of Detainees and the...

Zaman al-Wasl uncovers the networks involved in the Captagon production in Syria and the role of Assad's men in smuggling and promotion. The 22-year-old Sobhi, Zaman al-Wasl contacted him through a mediator, confirmed that Cannabis and narcotic pills are “easily available if you...

The Turkish authorities have deported 34 displaced Syrians holding a "temporary protection" (Kimlik) card to the Idlib region through the "Bab al-Hawa" border crossing separating the two countries, north of Idlib province, under coercion and torture, during the past 48 hours. One of the...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented at least 173 arbitrary arrests in March, including four children and five women, noting that the Syrian regime violates international and local law through arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, and torture, the. The 24-page report,...

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators on Wednesday arrested a Syrian man accused of war crimes for allegedly torturing captives while he was with the Islamic State group in Syria in 2014. Federal prosecutors said the man, identified only as Raed E. in line with German privacy rules, was...

Three years ago, the world watched as the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS battled the remnants of Daesh in the extremist group’s last territorial holdout of Baghouz. Having once controlled an area the size of England, the terror group had been forced to...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two people were arrested on suspicion of migrant smuggling and endangering lives for steering a sailboat carrying 68 others that ran into trouble off Greece's western coast last week, the coast guard said Tuesday. The coast guard said the two — an Iraqi and a Syrian —...

Syrian regime forces on Monday shelled a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria, the country’s last major opposition stronghold, killing four students on their way to school, opposition activists said. The shelling targeted the village of Maaret al-Naasan in Idlib province, which is home...