The Syrian Prime Ministry announced new plan to expand drilling and exploration for gas and oil, in an indication of its desperation to recover the oil fields controlled by the US-backed Kurdish forces in the northeastern Syria. The director of the Syrian regime's General Petroleum...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian economist Abed Fadhliya said  the government’s decision to exclude anyone who owns a car with an engine capacity of 1500cc and the date of manufacture 2008 or above will have an adverse effect on car prices. in a statement to the pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper, Fadhliya...

A French woman is accusing Greek authorities of forcing her and other migrants back across the border into Turkey, violating her rights both as a person fleeing persecution and as a European citizen. In court documents seen by The Associated Press, the 32-year-old woman, who has Turkish as...

The Jordanian military says a crackdown on drug smugglers along the Syrian border is delivering results. During a media tour along the Syrian border on Thursday, Col. Mustafa al-Hiyari said the military was forced into action in response to increased smuggling activity and violence. In...

A Syrian military helicopter crash-landed in a rugged mountainous area during a training mission in the country’s northwest on Thursday, leaving two of the five crew members dead. State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the helicopter faced technical problems while...

  Faisal Ahmad al-Khalouf, preacher and imam of a mosque in northern Idlib province, died inside the prisons of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham after three years in detention on charges of collaborating with the Syrian regime. Sources from the town of Ma'arshamsha confirmed to Zaman...

 ​​A Palestinian monitoring group confirmed death of three female detainees under torture in the Sednaya Military Prison northeast of Damascus after being arbitrary held for several years. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said Majdolin al-Nabulsi, a newly-released detainee...

Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles toward Syrian military positions south of Damascus overnight, causing material damage, state media reported Thursday. State TV quoted an unnamed Syrian military official as saying that the missiles were fired from Syria’s Israeli-occupied...

It was night when Zakia Kachar heard the sounds of footsteps approach her tent in a detention camp for foreigners affiliated with Islamic State group extremists. With rocks in their hands, the wives of IS fighters had come for her. She fled with her children to another area of the Roj Camp...

International aid to Syria is at an inflection point. More than 10 years into the Syrian conflict, the majority of Syria’s population is displaced and lacks adequate food. While Western donor governments have contributed nearly $2.5 billion a year in humanitarian aid, needs continue to rise. In...

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria said Wednesday he expects a committee representing the Syrian government and the opposition to resume talks next month over draft constitutional reforms. Geir Pedersen spoke to reporters in the capital of Damascus after he met with Syrian officials,...

A Syrian refugee was shot dead by a Lebanese robbery gang in the Central Bekaa Valley, one of the victim’s relatives told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The gang pretended to be security officers when they broke into his house in al-Omariya town on Sunday but soon a quarrel erupted, and the gang...

Four civilians, including three children, were killed in northwestern Azaz town due to a rocket attack by the US-backed Kurdish YPG militia. According to local activists, 12 more people were injured in the opposition-held town of Azaz, which was the target of rockets fired from the nearby...

The Russian military on Tuesday deployed long-range nuclear-capable bombers and fighter jets carrying state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to its air base in Syria for massive naval drills in the region amid soaring tensions with the West over Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu...

A bomb attached to a bus carrying Syrian troops in Damascus exploded Tuesday morning, killing one soldier and wounding 11, state TV reported. The blast happened during rush hour at a customs roundabout near the capital's landmark Omayyad Square, according to the report. It gave no further...

Israel's Arab minority and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have raised $10 million in less than a month to build homes for Syrian refugees, according to activists behind the campaign. "The idea was to collect 100 heaters for 100 houses. Then we found out that people...

Residents of a village in the country side of Raqqa province in northeast Syria have said that oil pollution has contaminated their supply of drinking water, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday. Last week, the residents of al-Asadiyah - a village in the outskirts of...

Jordan's Energy Minister Saleh Al Kharabsheh on Monday said the kingdom could begin exporting electricity to Lebanon through Syria in March, but an agreement with the World Bank needs to be concluded first. The energy ministers of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria signed a deal last month in Beirut...

After her son was killed fighting for the Syrian government in 2013, the state began paying Amouna al-Berri a monthly salary which easily covered all her household expenses. Today, the "martyrs salary" - given to families of people who have died for Damascus in the 11-year long war - barely...

The Islamic State has killed 5,043 individuals, including 32 due to torture, since the radical group’s establishment, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday, noting that despite the passage of almost two years since the defeat of ISIS, the fate of 8,684 forcibly disappeared by ISIS...