At least seven civilians, including three children and two children, were killed with two children severely injured in an attack by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in northwestern Idlib province, sources said on Thursday. The missile attack targeted a moving vehicle carrying civilians in...

At least three Hezbollah militants and two elite Syrian forces were killed in the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus early Thursday, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Six more forces operating in the Fourth Mechanical Division were wounded in the missile attack on Jamraya district near...

A missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus has wounded four soldiers, according to Syria’s state media which blamed Israel for the attack. Syria’s state news agency SANA, quoting an unidentified military official, said Syrian air defences were able to shoot down most of the...

Last summer, two U.S. officials ventured into hostile territory for a secret high-stakes meeting with American adversaries. The Syrian government officials they were scheduled to meet in Damascus seemed ready to discuss the fate of U.S. hostages believed held in their country, including...

Israel carried out a missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs early Thursday that wounded four soldiers, Syria’s state media said. State news agency, SANA, quoted an unidentified military official as saying that Syrian air defenses were able to shoot...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has phoned Syria's Bashar al-Assad to discuss the demarcation of Lebanon-Syria maritime borders, according to Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe. The move came after the Syrian regime offered a Russian oil company the right to conduct oil...

 Dr. Fayez Al-Khalif, Minister of Higher Education in the opposition's Salvation Government, was found dead on Wednesday in the western countryside of Aleppo province after he went missing last week.

About 4000 Syrian tribal figures agreed on Wednesday to unify their ranks and efforts to confront the mounting abuses by the Iranian and Kurdish militias operating  in northeastern Syria.   The representatives of 132 tribes held the third general conference in the...

Syria's fuel crisis has deepened in the areas under the regime's control resulting in long queues of vehicles at petrol stations. Local media yesterday quoted sources as saying the halt of fuel supply from the areas controlled by the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Unit (YPG) to the Syrian...

Russia sparred with the United States and its allies Tuesday over a vote later this month that could strip Syria of voting rights in the international chemical weapons watchdog, with Moscow accusing the West of trying to “demonize Damascus” and the U.S. demanding a strong message to Syria’s...

In December 2010, protests erupted in Tunisia, triggering similar demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa, including in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. Ten years since the start of the Arab Spring, photographers who captured the years of uprising reflect on what they saw and what...

Daesh on Tuesday abducted 19 people, mostly civilians, in the centre of war-torn Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The extremists attacked regime forces in the Badia desert, before kidnapping eight policemen and 11 civilians from a small village....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The General Security in Turkish-held Afrin city in northwestern Syria has seized 128,000 pills of the drug Captagon, said in a statement issued Monday. The Anti-Drug and Smuggling said Tuesday that the drug pills were hidden inside Olive containers equipped for...

The Opposition's Health Directorate in northern Afrin city warned of a new wave of the COVID-19 infections amid pandemic spread in Turkish-held areas in northern Syria. The directorate, in cooperation with the military police, imposed on Monday a complete quarantine on the village...

Dialogue between Kurdish parties in Syria has returned to square one after US-backed talks failing to achieve any form of political consensus among the rivals of the largest ethnic minority in the war-torn country. The US deputy Special Envoy to Syria, for his part, has called on...

Syrian Christians gathered Sunday in a church in Damascus amidst a second Easter under coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Church goers wore masks and attempted to social distance in one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year. Jimmy Babek, a scout at Our Lady of Damascus,...

The bodies of three sisters missing in Lebanon have washed up on a Syrian beach and a probe is underway to determine how they drowned, a Lebanese security official said Sunday. The sisters went missing from a village in northern Lebanon on Monday, said the official, adding that Syrian...

A local monitoring group said Saturday that Syrian regime and Russia’s airstrikes have bombed out of service at least 430 schools in southern Daraa province between 2013 and  2018. Ahrar Horan Gathering said the airstrikes conducted by Syrian regime and the Russian Air Force...

 Primary schools around Syria will close down indefinitely next week amid a severe increase of coronavirus cases in the war-torn country, while universities will suspend classes for only two weeks and high schools will remain open, the government announced Saturday. Education...

Over most of two decades, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in Iraq and Syria. He joined the fight against U.S. forces in Iraq and was jailed by the Americans. He became a commander within the group known as the Islamic State of Iraq. He founded an Al...