Colonel Hassan Haidar, commander of the military police in eastern Deir Ezzor province died from COVID-19, pro-regime media accounts said Monday.   Haidar, originally from Yabroud town in Damascus suburbs, took the post in 2017 after he showed a massive allegiance to the regime and the...

Syrian regime forces and rebel groups exchanged shelling in northwestern Syria on Monday that killed at least 10 people, the vast majority of them in rebel-held areas, state media and opposition activists said. The area has been witnessing acts of violence in recent weeks between...

June 20 of each year marks World Refugee Day, with the symbolism of this day having a painful and harrowing effect on the Syrian people for nearly ten years now, as millions of Syrians have fled the decade-long internal armed conflict, forcing increasing numbers of citizens to seek asylum....

A major military campaign launched Sunday by the Russian-backed 25th Special Tasks Division to track ISIS fighters in the Badia desert.   Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the 25th Division, led by Brig. Gen Suhail al-Hassan, has mobilised more than 1,500 forces in the...

A Russian unmanned reconnaissance aircraft crashed on Sunday evening as a result of a technical malfunction in the Jabal al-Zawiya area, while rebels thwarted an incursion attempt by regime forces into southern edges of Idlib province.   A rebel source in the Al-Fateh Operations Room...

 A Palestinian rights group has focused on the tragedy of Palestinian refugees in Syria, where tens of thousands are still forcibly displaced, facing successive hardships and calamities.   The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said on the World Refugee Day that during the...

Fled from war and terror to a new country. New language, new school, new challenges. This is especially difficult for children - you might think! But the young finalists of this year's “Colors Bekennen” award of the Berlin Senate Chancellery under the direction of State Secretary Sawsan...

A White Helmets volunteer was killed and three fellows wounded Saturday, when Syrian regime forces bombed a Civil Defence center in the Al-Ghab Plain region in the western Hama province.   Zaman al-Wasl reporter said that Daham Al-Hussein, 35, died on Saturday morning, and Ahmed...

    Colonel Wassim Hassan, the former director of Sednaya prison, died of a heart attack on Saturday, the Sednaya Prison Detainees and Missing Association said.   The Sednaya slaughterhouse had witnessed during Hassan’s era the execution of at least 500 opposition rebels...

Despite the announcement of the defeat of the Islamic State (IS), and despite the numerous campaigns launched by all parties in Syria against it, the terrorist group still poses a threat. At the field level, it seems IS cells resumed their activities in the Syrian desert, known as Badiya....

State-run media said the prices of milk and its derivatives have increased significantly during the past two days, following a decision by the trade ministry suspending the manufacture of semi-dairies products.   The ministry for trade and consumer protection allowed last week the...

More than 15 Syrian-Palestinian refugees were arrested after their return from Europe or neighboring countries to Syria, a Palestinian rights monitoring said Thursday.   Among the detainees, 13 people who were arrested after their return from Lebanon, a refugee after returning from...

The Syrian refugee Razan Al-Aqal has obtained a scholarship in scientific research, after she graduated with distinction from her high school in the German state of Holstein.    Al-Aqal, 19, has chosen to study virology and immunology at the Faculty of Medicine  ...

The UN on Wednesday sent 72 more truckloads of humanitarian aid through Turkey to Syria's northwestern Idlib province. The trucks crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province. The humanitarian aid will be distributed among the needy in Idlib,...

   The fate of 63 officers and agents from the Intelligence Communications Department is still unknown since they were held in January 2020 following the death of Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad's U.S. strike, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday.   At least...

MOGADISHU - Since the war in Syria broke out a decade ago, refugees have fled to countries in the Middle East and Europe as well as to countries in Africa that face instability, like Somalia. But now Somali officials say Syrian refugees are enriching the host nation culturally and economically....

A field study for the Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria revealed high rates of Palestinian child labor since 2011, where poverty and the loss of breadwinners constituted the most important causes of the phenomenon of child labor.   Thousands of Palestinians have lost their...

The British foreign secretary has been urged to use his influence to keep a vital Syria border crossing open to prevent a “humanitarian disaster,” it was disclosed on Wednesday. Dominic Raab was told that if the Bab al-Hawa crossing is shut when a UN mandate expires next month more than...

Turkish intelligence forces captured this week an alleged Islamic State group member in Syria who they said was plotting a major cross-border attack. Kasim Guler, known by his nom-de-guerre Abu Usame Al-Turki, is one of Turkey's most wanted terrorists, state news agency Anadolu...

In the first case of its kind in the country, a refugee residing in the Netherlands has gone on trial for war crimes over alleged murders that he oversaw during the Syrian war. Ahmad Al K, 49, arrived in the Netherlands with his family in 2014. He was arrested in 2019 after being...