Germany has organized the return of three women and 12 children from camps in northeastern Syria for humanitarian reasons, its foreign minister reported Sunday. Heiko Maas didn’t further identify the women or children, who were flown back to Germany on Saturday. However, the...

Syrians living in bomb-scarred cities have long had to deal with a kneecapped health system that can barely handle the basic needs of the country’s exhausted population. Now, like the rest of the world, Syrians are facing the coronavirus. And detected cases are skyrocketing. The U.N....

Inside a dusty and dark workshop on the banks of the Jaghjagh river in northeast Syria, Misak Antranik Petros uses an ancient pottery wheel to throw different shapes from clay. The 85-year-old Syrian potter of Armenian origin said his family has practised the craft for more than 450 years....

Syrian regime’s propaganda that the water in Allouk water station, which meets the need of the Hasakah region, was cut off deliberately, does not reflect the truth, say Turkish authorities. The water needs of Syria’s Hasakah province are met by 12 of the 30 water wells in the Allouk Water...

Zaman al-Wasl has obtained information that a war criminal called Yahiya Zakariya Al-Zarzour arrived in Germany. Zaman’s investigative team for war criminals was able to confirm the accusations against Al-Zarzour of committing crimes against Syrians by cross-referencing several sources....

Syrians living in bomb-scarred cities have long had to deal with a kneecapped health system that can barely handle the basic needs of the country’s exhausted population. Now, like the rest of the world, Syrians are facing the coronavirus. And detected cases are skyrocketing. The U.N....

TORRE PELLICE, Italy — The story of Maha Dahine and her two sons, Hanna and Antoine Khoury, is similar to those of countless victims of the conflict in Syria. Driven by fear and hopelessness, they left their homeland in 2016 for an uncertain future in Europe. But while many thousands...

Syrian fighters backed by Turkey waged battles on Friday against Kurdish forces near the town of Ain Issa in northern Syria, where Russian and Turkish troops jointly patrol a key highway. Turkish forces and their Syrian insurgent allies seized territory in the region in an offensive last...

Evacuated Syrian civilians from the city of Aleppo long to return to their peaceful life before being forced to leave their homes due to besieging regime forces four years ago. The Bashar al-Assad regime imposed a blockade on approximately 300,000 civilians in the eastern districts of the...

To dodge skyrocketing prices for animal fodder in Syria's last major rebel bastion, farmer Ayman Ibrahim has turned to an aquatic fern used as a fertiliser in Asian rice paddies. Azolla, which looks more like a pond weed than a fern, is regarded as an invasive plant in much of the world but...

Turkey has evacuated seven military observation posts in northwest Syria, pulling back troops from territory controlled by the Syrian government to areas held by insurgents and Turkey-backed rebels, a Turkish source said on Friday. Turkey had set up a dozen military posts in the region in...

A Syrian refugee was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing the former commander of Deir Ezzor Military Council, Brigadier General Ismail Mulla Omair last year in Istanbul. According to Turkish media, the Supreme Criminal Court recently convicted Abdul Qadir Khalil Mulla of killing...

Dr. Adnan Jasem had every reason to leave war-torn Syria after surviving a bomb blast that broke his legs four years ago and receiving job offers from abroad. Still, Jasem stayed, committed to treating the people in his homeland. It was no surprise that he would be on the front lines...

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday Turkey could normalize ties with France but Paris must change its stance over Turkey’s military operations in Syria. Turkey has repeatedly traded barbs with France over policies in Syria, Libya and Nagorno Karabakh, and the publication of...

The EU on Thursday announced the finalizing contracting process of €6 billion ($7.3 billion) in aid for refugees hosted by Turkey, focused on the 4 million Syrian refugees who since 2011 fled the war in their home country for safe shelter in Turkey. “The EU Delegation to Turkey signs the...

The UN's humanitarian chief has reported that 34 per cent of all children in north-west Syria suffer from stunted development due to severe malnourishment. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock revealed the statistics, which shed light on...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia supplied 100,000 tonnes of wheat to Syria as humanitarian aid since the start of 2020 and plans to ship more, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. Syria’s economy has been strained by a complex, multi-sided conflict now in its...

A Syrian health organization on Thursday has mourned doctor Mohamed Al-Youssef who died from coronavirus in Turkish hospitals. The SAMS medical relief organization laments the loss of Al-Youssef, 36, who worked with them in the opposotion-held areas in northern Syria as a director of...

The Syrian security has arrested a doctor and three nurses in the past few days for diagnosing new Covid-19 cases without referring to the Health Ministry, local monitoring group said Thursday. The Daraa Martyrs Documentation office recorded the raiding of the homes of the 4 healthcare...

The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, on Wednesday assured that the country could be a powder keg for a major international incident, as five foreign armies are operating there. In a report to the Security Council, the UN high representative pointed out that although...