The global chemical weapons watchdog criticized Syria for failing to declare a chemical weapons production facility and respond to 18 other issues, while Russia accused the watchdog of conducting a “political crusade” against its close ally, the Syrian government. The clash Friday came...

Within two days, Turkish doctors performed surgeries on 40 patients, including 21 children, at Al-Ra'i (Coban Bey) Hospital built by Turkey and located within the Operation Euphrates Shield area in northern Syria. The surgical operations were performed by a group of Turkish doctors sent...

Arsal (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanon have received two text messages announcing the discontinuation of the financial and World Food Program provided to these families by the UN Refugee Agency. The first text sent by the UNHCR to the families alerting them that, “Due to...

Turkey is planning to withdraw from more military positions in Syria's north-west province of Idlib, citing the need to avoid "potential risks". According to sources who informed the news outlet Middle East Eye, Turkish forces will soon be evacuated from two military positions in the areas...

, the Interior Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry decided not to renew a ban on deportations to Syria that has been in place since 2012, when the United Nations formally declared Syria had entered a civil war. The prohibition sought to protect failed asylum seekers from being...

Turkmen families displaced due to attacks by the Syrian Bashar al-Assad regime are facing hardship in trying to provide winter clothes for their children and fuel for heating as the freezing weather sets in. Families who left the predominantly Turkmen Bayirbucak region, located north of...

Russia’s military will set up positions around the northeast Syrian town of Ain Issa as part of an agreement with the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to reduce attacks from Turkish-controlled areas nearby. Riyadh al-Khalaf, the military council leader for Tal Abyad...

The Interior Ministry has announced that Syrians convicted of serious crimes can be deported for the first time since 2012. The change, from January, won't affect the vast majority of refugees who have made Germany home. Germany will not renew the ban on deportations to war-ravaged...

A group of Syrian refugees took the Canadian citizenship oath in an online ceremony Thursday, the fifth anniversary of when the first plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Canada as part of the Liberal government's promise to resettle tens of thousands. Ibrahim Nafash, who was one...

Pro-government Sham FM radio has turned into a platform for state officials to deny corruption claims amid deteriorating economic hardships. The Minister of Agriculture Mohamed Hassan Qatana went on Sham FM to deny his previous suggestion that Syrians should start making their own bread...

A car bombing at a checkpoint in a Turkish-controlled area in northeastern Syria on Thursday killed at least two Turkish soldiers and two local security officers with the Syrian opposition, a Turkish official said. It was the latest in a string of attacks in Turkish-controlled areas in...

Landmines laid by groups fighting during the civil war in Syria have killed at least 2,601 civilians so far, a human rights group said on Thursday. As many as 2,601 civilians, including 598 children and 267 women, have died from mine explosions since the beginning of the war in March...

The Islamic State group killed nine Iran-trained Syrian fighters in an attack on one of their positions in eastern Syria on Thursday, an anti-regime war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an IS sleeper cell carried out the dawn attack on the desert...

Syrian families who fled attacks by the Assad regime to take refuge in a camp in the northwestern Idlib province have turned their tents into part-time schools to enable their children to continue their education. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, hundreds of schools have...

A report by the UN refugee agency estimated that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million at mid-year, noting that the full picture for 2020 is not yet established. “With forced displacement doubling in the last decade, the international community is failing to safeguard peace,” said...

The witness entered the courtroom in Koblenz with his lawyer and fiancee from the door for witnesses close to the present audience wearing a hat on his head, an oversized oily jacket, black sunglasses and face mask. During the forty-sixth session, from the trial of the intelligence...

Notable figures from Daraa and Sweida provinces met this week seeking to a long-term conciliation following a series of chaotic security condition, kidnapping and skirmishes in southern Syria. Local activists told Zaman al-Wasl that Monday's meeting in the village of Barad  was a...

The overall death toll for Syria's civil war has crept up to 387,000 following the least deadly of 10 years of conflict, a monitor said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria, said the new figure included almost 117,000...

 Abdullah Al-Najjar, a 15-year-old displaced boy, uses a small, wood and iron wagon to move around and in front his house in Salqin town in northwestern dlib province, because of his disability that was the result of brain tissue damage at birth. Abdullah's...

The world can't forget the plight of Syrian refugees this winter despite the global upheaval caused by Covid-19, fantasy author Neil Gaiman said on Tuesday as he helped launch the UN refugee programme's cold weather appeal. The award-winning writer said the pandemic had exposed weaknesses...