Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) distributed 470 tons of vegetables and fruits to the Afrin and Idlib regions of Syria on Wednesday. Yusuf Tunc, a representative of IHH, said they are trying to help war-weary Syrians. "Life in the region becomes increasingly difficult as...

More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters have returned to Syria after the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Britain-based anti-regime Syrian war monitor said Wednesday. A November 9 truce ended more than a month of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the...

For more than a week, there has been an interruption of drinking water supply in the towns of southern Damascus, which the Assad regime has been ignoring despite all the complaints. The Damascus-based network Sawt al Asima confirmed that the interruption has continued for 8 days, with...

"First I lost my home in Aleppo, and then I lost my home in Beirut." As Lebanon grapples with a worsening economic crisis, COVID-19 and the aftermath of August's catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut, Yasmin Kayali believes that the status of refugees in the country has never been so...

Tribal sources have disclosed that a number of Al-Qaeda leaders and fighters have returned to the Yemeni province of Marib from Syria in recent days, according to the Yemen News Portal. The Al-Qaeda elements have reportedly arrived in Marib through the coast of Shabwah with many returnees...

Should former members of the Syrian security forces who have defected from President Bashar al-Assad's government be prosecuted for war crimes, or should they serve as key witnesses in an effort to bring senior officials to justice? The question has divided Syrian refugees and exiles who...

Mohammed Mostafa al-Mohammed started studying medicine in rebel-held northern Syria to help the victims of war, but instead he has graduated into a world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 29-year-old graduate from an opposition-backed university had expected to be tending to the...

The University of Idlib has inaugurated the first university hospital in the opposition-held northern Syria, providing the needed materials for the students of the faculties of medicine and pharmacy. Dr. Ahmed Abu Hajar, president of the University of Idlib, said that, “We...

Director of the Syrian Grain Foundation in northeastern Qamishli city was arrested along with three engineers for the poor storage of wheat and the discovery of a smuggling warehouse, in light of a worsening bread crisis. After the arrest of Obaida Al-Ali over charges of negligence...

The first of its kind inside the deserted Rukban camp, a Syrian refugee woman underwent a successful Cesarean delivery, The director of the medical point said Monday. Dr. Shukri Chihab said that the medical team of the Council of the Palmyra and Syrian Badia Tribes had performed the...

The parliamentary faction of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU party want to use the results of an inquest into the security situation in northern Syria to examine whether the region could be deemed a safe zone for deportation. But many have criticized the plans. Regardless of...

Turkish security forces killed four members of Syria's Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as they "attempted to infiltrate" into Turkey's cross-border operation zone in northern Syria, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. "Four PKK/YPG terrorists, who attempted to infiltrate...

Syria and Russia faced renewed pressure over allegations of chemical weapons use as member countries of the global toxic arms watchdog met on Monday. Moscow was urged by Western nations to "transparently" reveal the circumstances of the Novichok nerve agent poisoning of opposition figure...

Seven people were injured Monday in a terror blast in northern Syria, according to local sources, reports Anadolu Agency. An explosives-laden motorcycle exploded in the city center of Jarabulus, the northern border town that was cleared of terrorists by Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield...

They may be scarred, but nothing, not even torture, bombing or exile, could break them. As the Arab Spring revolts swept through the Middle East and North Africa region like a wildfire, thousands of young Syrians joined protests in March 2011 demanding change in a nation ruled by the family...

A UN envoy Sunday pushed for progress on the eve of the latest round of talks in Geneva towards revising Syria's constitution and winding down the country's nine-year-old civil war. "We want to see progress," Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria, told reporters during a virtual...

A press freedom group has denounced the "unacceptable" injury of an award-winning Syrian photojournalist during a Paris protest against police brutality. Ameer Alhalbi, a freelance photographer who worked for Polka Magazine and AFP, was covering the demonstrations over the weekend opposing...

After almost ten years of a brutal civil war, economic catastrophe, rising poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic and now the fatal winter months – misery is compounded again and again in Syria, and the UK's decision to cut its aid budget will only add to the suffering of Syrians. According to...

When Syrian authorities said they would allow returns to the war-ravaged Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Damascus, Issa al-Loubani rushed to sign up and quickly started repairing his home. Hundreds of former residents have already requested permission to go back to the...

Four Syrian media groups have merged in a new opposition media body, said in statement on Saturday. The Syrian Media Council includes the "Media Union of Aleppo and its countryside, the Media Association of Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Journalists Association (SJA),...