With Russia's war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria. Syria clearly has a rich pool of fighters to draw from. Russia's military is deeply entrenched in the Mideast...

The Syrian regime attributed the rise in prices of the real estate and construction materials to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to Al-Watan daily. The rocket-high rise in oil prices led to a rise in shipping costs globally by nearly 30% in addition to insurance costs, accompanied...

A house explosion in the Turkish state of Konya left 6 Syrians wounded who were storing and collecting chemicals, according to the Turkish Haberle newspaper. The accident occurred in the basement of a house in Tatlıcak district, Konya state, on Wednesday evening, due to the presence of...

​​The opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria are witnessing an almost complete cut-off of sugar in the markets which pushes people to pile in long queues in front of shops, groceries to obtain a small part of the main commodity. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that sugar was...

Two people were assassinations on Tuesday by unidentified assailants within one hour in Daraa Governorate, according to a local monitoring group. The Ahrar Horan Gathering confirmed that two of the operations took place in the town of Jassem in the northern countryside of Daraa. A former...

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria documented death of 487 Palestinian women in Syria, almost 16% of the total Palestinian female victims who fell during the conflict period extending from March 2011 to March 8, 2022. The London-based monitoring group confirmed that 243 female...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Tuesday said at least 9,774 women are still detained or forcibly disappeared in Syria, while 16,228 women have been killed, and 93 women have died due to torture, noting that the oppression of women in the different groups’ areas of control...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed to avenge the death of two of its members in an Israeli air strike in Syria, state-run Press TV reported on Tuesday. An Israeli attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday killed two civilians and left some material damage, Syrian state...

Russia has been trying to recruit Syrians to fight in Ukraine to bolster Moscow’s flagging invasion, according to the Pentagon. A senior US defence official said it was unclear how many Syrians Vladimir Putin is seeking to recruit, but said “we find it noteworthy that he believes he...

The Syrian regime’s military security and pro-Iran militants are imposing royalties on merchants amounting to millions of Syrian pounds in exchange for allowing them to enter food staples and goods into Daraa province, taking advantage of sporadic military checkpoints located on international...

Five Syrian forces and allied militias were killed in Islamic State's landmines in the Syrian desert, amid a hike in the radical group's attack in the past 72 hours. Informed sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that 3 pro-Iran militants were killed at Monday dawn, and two others were wounded,...

An Israeli attack over the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday killed two civilians and left some material damage, Syrian State Media reported citing a military source. Israel has mounted frequent attacks against what it has described as Iranian targets in Syria, where Tehran-backed forces...

Fifteen soldiers died Sunday in an Islamic State group attack on an army bus in the central Syrian desert, a war monitor said, as state media reported a "terrorist attack". Despite the fall of IS's "caliphate" in 2019, the group continues to launch deadly attacks from hideouts in the Syrian...

Three militants of the Russian-backed Palestinian Liwa al-Quds were killed on Friday in an ambush carried out by Islamic State in the Syrian desert, targeted two vehicles east of Palmyra city in the eastern countryside of Homs. Two more militants were wounded in the ambush of the Sabkhet...

The German Federal Prosecutor's Office in the Hamburg court to ordered imprison Stephanie.A, 44, a former fighter in ISIS ranks, for 7 and a half years, accusing her of "belonging to a terrorist organization." According to the German Bild newspaper, a representative of the German Federal...

A 49-year-old woman from Sweden was convicted Friday of serious violation of international law and a war crime for not preventing her 12-year-old son from being recruited as a child soldier on behalf of the Islamic State group in Syria. The Stockholm District Court said Lina Ishaq who has...

Syria’s Response Coordinator Team confirmed on Thursday that 12 displaced camps in the opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria were affected by windstorms and rain, noting that its field teams are still continuing their operations on the ground to count the damage.    The weather...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report, released Wednesday, that it documented at least 203 cases of arbitrary arrests/detentions in February 2022, including 13 children and 11 women, noting that the Syrian regime admits to the killing of dozens of persons...

Three Syrian young men were drowned in the Rhine river when car capsized in western Germany last Monday evening, according to the augsburger-allgemeine news site. Activists reported that five Syrian youths, whose names were not known, were riding in a car near the town of Wesel when their...

Syria's Response Coordinators group counted Covid-19 infections in the opposition areas in northern Syria in February, saying that the Afrin region was at high risk by 880 positive tests.  The rescue team indicated that the high-risk areas are Idlib province 839 cases and the Harem 727...