Syria’s military said Israel carried out airstrikes Monday night on central and western provinces, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. The military said Israeli warplanes fired missiles while flying over neighboring Lebanon. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down most of...

Turkey and the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad have recently deployed army reinforcements into the countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, local media outlets reported. According to reports, a Turkish convoy consisting of tanks, heavy artillery, personnel carriers and armoured...

One person was killed and three more wounded in artillery attacks by the Syrian regime forces on rebel-held areas in northwestern Hama province, local reporter said Sunday.   The regime forces and Iran-backed militias, stationed in Joreen camp in the Ghab Plain, have intensified...

A 27-year-old man who stabbed four people with a knife on a German high-speed train apparently attacked his victims “at random” and showed signs of mental illness, authorities said Sunday. Police and investigators told reporters in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz that the attacker’s intentions...

A Syrian boy was hospitalised after allegedly being beaten and strangled by an older student at his school in a reportedly racially motivated attack in Turkey. Ramez Al-Housni, 12, was reportedly assaulted by a 17-year-old Turkish student in an unsupervised school playground in Istanbul's...

A landmine explosion killed seven people, including a child, in Homs province of central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor reported. It detonated as a vehicle with the seven on board passed through a desert road outside the historic city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece next month, the Vatican said on Friday, returning to the island of Lesbos, a major port of entry for migrants into Europe. His 35th trip abroad comes just five months after the Argentine pontiff, who turns 85 in December, was hospitalized following...

Butane gas shortage in Syria has reached 5,000 tonnes a day, said Syria's Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Amr Salem at a press conference on Wednesday.  The statement came two days after the Syrian government doubled butane gas price amid international energy price...

Nearly 470,000 Syrian have returned to their countries and more of them will go back when the conditions become ripe for their return, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. “Turkey cannot receive any more refugees as it does not have additional capacity to do so. We have deals for four...

Shortly after Denmark began telling Syrian refugees that parts of Syria are "safe" and stripped them of their temporary protected status, I talked to a 31-year-old refugee who voluntarily returned to Syria from Jordan in December 2020. He told me otherwise. Someone in the Danish government...

Syria will lift subsidies on basic goods such as bread and gasoline for around 800,000 of its richest citizens by the end of the year to help ease the burden on state finances, officials said on Wednesday. The move will affect high-earners working in the private sector who can buy...

Syria’s military said Israel has carried out an air raid that hit a military post on the outskirts of the capital of Damascus early Wednesday, causing material damage. It was the second Israeli attack to target areas near the capital in four days. The earlier attack on Saturday activated...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented at least 204 cases of arbitrary arrests/ detentions in October 2021, including one child and nine women.   Most of the arrests in Syria are carried out without any judicial warrant while the victims are passing through...

The Syrian regime forces and other waring parties killed at least 84 civilians, including 22 children and 4 women, in October, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Monday.   The monthly report by the local monitoring group saw an overall decrease in the death toll of civilians,...

BERLIN (AP) — German police said on Monday that they registered more than 5,000 unauthorized border crossings last month by people who had arrived from Belarus, marking a significant uptick in the number of arrivals through a new and politically sensitive migration route. Federal police said...

A total of 8,845 people made a first application for asylum in the Netherlands in the third quarter of this year, 2.5 times the second quarter total and the highest number since the end of 2015. M The biggest group – 2,550 – came from Syria, while 1,565 people from Afghanistan applied for...

The Syrian opposition factions thwarted an infiltration attempt by the regime forces and Iran-backed militias in northern Aleppo, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl.    The factions of the Al-Fateh Al-Mubeen Operations Room managed to repel an infiltration attempt by two groups of...

 President Joe Biden plans to tell Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Sunday morning meeting at the Group of 20 summit that the two nations need to find ways to avoid crises with each other, as the alliance has been tested recently by a threat to no longer recognize the U.S. envoy...

More than 8,500 foreign fighters have been deported from Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war 10 years ago, the Turkish Interior Ministry said Saturday. Terror suspects from 102 countries were expelled, including 44 from the U.S. and 1,075 from EU states, according to a ministry...

Seven Syrians face deportation from Turkey after posting videos of themselves eating bananas on social media amid wider complaints about the supposed lifestyle of refugees, a Turkish news agency reported Saturday. The seven, plus a Syrian minor, were detained in the western city of Izmir on...