Syria’s defense minister met Sunday with Jordan's army chief in Amman after after Syrian troops captured several rebel-held areas near Jordan’s border, state media reported. The Hala Akhbar news site, which is linked to Jordan’s military, reported that the meeting between Jordanian...

Refugees from Syria have changed the cultural makeup of Germany’s capital in a way not seen since the 1960s. Tarek Hamad picked up the razor and set about shaving the back of the young man’s head without even asking. After working at the barbershop on Berlin’s Sonnenallee for more than...

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a gas pipeline at Deir Ali power station near Damascus, according to a statement published on Saturday on its affiliated Telegram channels. Daesh fighters "were able to plant and detonate explosives on the gas pipeline feeding...

An attack with explosive devices laid along a natural gas pipeline southeast of Syria's capital knocked out power in parts of the country before it was quickly restored, the electricity minister said Saturday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which was the latest...

The gap between Afghans and Syrians in asylum applications in European Union countries has been narrowing since December last year, according to an analysis released Thursday by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO).  Syrians were still the biggest group of asylum applicants in EU+...

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has distributed more than 2,000 aid packages containing food and hygiene kits to people in quarantine due to the coronavirus in northern Syria, Turkish authorities said on Friday. 
The aid campaign for people who are in quarantine...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia later this month for talks with President Vladimir Putin about the violence in northwestern Syria, where Moscow and Ankara back opposing sides, two Turkish officials said on Friday. Turkey supports fighters who sought to...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday that it has documented at least 174 attacks on bakeries since March 2011 to date, 149 of them at the hands of the Syrian-Russian alliance forces, noting that the Syrian regime is incapable of securing the most basic necessities of human life, and...

Tamar al-Jadou beams with joy from his hospital bed, leaving behind months of plight behind him. It took months and a lot of people for a one-year-old Syrian boy to reach this stage in his short life, though he is unaware of it. Al-Jadou is the son of a Syrian family that settled in the...

The UN humanitarian affairs chief warned on Wednesday that Syria, after more than a decade of war, remains “caught in a downward spiral” and that “the country will continue to be a place of tragedy, so long as the conflict continues.”  Martin Griffiths, who also serves as Emergency...

 A Syrian refugee accused of plotting to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh and who was inspired by the Islamic State group pleaded guilty to a federal charge on Thursday and awaits sentencing. Pittsburgh resident Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 23, entered the plea to attempting to provide...

A British woman who ran away from home aged 15 to join the Islamic State group in Syria has asked for forgiveness and appealed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to let her come home. Shamima Begum was one of three east London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria in 2015. She has said she...

Saudi air defences on Wednesday destroyed an explosives-laden drone launched by Yemen's Houthi group toward Abha airport in the southwest of the kingdom, the Saudi-owned Dubai-based al-Hadath channel reported. A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in Yemen after the Iranian-aligned...

Turkey does not have the capacity to deal with a possible new refugee wave from Afghanistan, the Turkish president told German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a telephone call on Tuesday. During the call, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said Germany and other European Union nations should...

The Turkish army has intensified its attacks against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria over the past few weeks. Turkish airstrikes have targeted for assassination prominent field commanders, while Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions have launched...

Cases of Covid-19 have increased alarmingly over the past month in Syria's rebel-controlled northern region of Idlib, local authorities said Monday. Although cases of the virus had stabilised earlier this year, sometimes numbering fewer than 100 per day, local officials told AFP...

Geneva - Emirati court issuance of a 10-year prison sentence against a Syrian activist is grossly unfair since the trial did not meet the minimum due procedures, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement. The State Security Court in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, issued a...

Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad have met in Moscow to discuss the cooperation between their armies and how to continue operations to gain control of the last rebel-held areas in Syria, state-run media in Damascus reported on Tuesday. The Monday night meeting between the two...

An uneasy calm held sway in a southern Syrian city Sunday after its opposition-held half returned to state control under a surrender deal, AFP journalists on a government-organised tour said. Daraa province and its capital of the same name, the cradle of Syria's uprising, returned to...

A former official in Syria’s ruling Baath party, who obtained asylum in Germany, is still operating for the Syrian regime and its security services, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.   Amal Mamdouh Ezzo, 54, who lives in Güstrow town in the province of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in...