Massive forest fires in war-torn Syria this week have killed at least two people and burned swaths of land, state media and officials said, as blazes also hit neighbouring Lebanon. Syrian state television on Saturday morning broadcast scenes from the affected areas, where firefighters...

Wildfires around the Middle East triggered by a heatwave hitting the region have killed two people, forced thousands of people to leave their homes and detonated landmines along the Lebanon-Israel border, state media and officials said Saturday. The areas hit by the heatwave are Syria,...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Saturday announced their second prison amnesty in the space of five months. The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), said in a statement on Saturday that all prisoners serving time for petty crimes will be...

A Taiwan-funded civic center located on the border between Turkey and Syria was completed on Friday after a year of construction. The building, called the Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens and located in Reyhanli, Hatay Province, southeastern Turkey, is expected to serve as a...

Wrapped in plastic and white sheets, the ashen corpse of Mohammed Al-Shuhna, a Syrian mercenary allegedly killed in Azerbaijan, is shuttled back to north Syria just two weeks after he had first left. In the grainy mobile phone footage sent to The Independent  by Mohamed’s friends, a...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad claimed that US President Donald Trump’s plan to assassinate him is part of a rooted US policy that relies on assassination attempts, while stressing the need for an international balance to deter or punish the US administration for its “evil actions”....

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Six Syrian rebels were killed in Azerbaijan while fighting the Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh region.  Sources confirmed that the slain fighters were buried in different areas of northern Syria, after their bodies were transported by military...

 Firefighters battled numerous blazes on Friday as wildfires renewed in forest areas in central and northwestern Syria, according to the state media and witnesses. The fires, which broke out at midnight, roared in the countryside of Homs province in central Syria as well as in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Once again, the threat of deportation looms over Syrian refugees in Denmark, who for more than a year have been anticipating the review of their residence permits and fearing that their fate has been sealed, on the false claim that Damascus is now “safe”. Indeed, a few days...

Attacks by the Bashar Assad regime in northwestern Idlib province killed one civilian and injured another four people. According to the White Helmets civil defense group, Assad regime forces launched rocket and mortar attacks on the village of Kansafra in region of al-Zawiya Mountain,...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has acknowledged that he would personally like to receive Russia’s vaccine against coronavirus. Speaking to the Russian news outlet Sputnik, Al-Assad addressed having a vaccine available in Syria, saying that in the context of the ongoing pandemic “Everybody...

The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry yesterday accused Armenia of using mercenaries from Syria and Lebanon to fight alongside its forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency quoted the head of the International Military Cooperation Department in the...

 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has arrested three jihadists from rival Hurras al-Din group in the northwestern province of Idlib, media officer in the powerful group told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. According to Taqi al-Din Omar, one of the detained jihadists is a Saudi citizen, known as Abu...

We were over the moon when we found out we were going to the UK – but now it feels like it’s the end of the world,” says Basil, 35, from the room he lives in with his wife and three young children in Lebanon. “We just want to start our lives,” the Syrian father-of-three adds dejectedly....

Turkish parliament on Wednesday ratified a motion extending authorization to launch cross-border anti-terrorist operations in northern Iraq and Syria. The ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and two other opposition parties, the...

The United States on Wednesday said it was troubled by a recent rise in attacks in Syria, a day after a blast in the northwest town of al-Bab killed at least 11 people. “The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack near a crowded traffic circle in al-Bab yesterday,” U.S. State...

The sprawling Najha cemetery outside Damascus, resting place for thousands of dead from Syria’s wars, is struggling to cope with a surge in victims from the country’s latest conflict - the largely unacknowledged battle with COVID-19. Official data put the national death toll from the...

Clashes in the Syrian Desert between pro-government forces and holdouts of the Daesh group have killed at least 90 combatants this month, a war monitor said Wednesday. Russian aircraft carried out strikes in support of their Syrian regime ally, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....

“Many relatives of mine were living in camps near the border with Turkey,” says Huda Husein, a 25-year-old teacher living in the rebel-held enclave of Idlib in north west Syria, “but last month they returned home [to the cities and villages] because they prefer dying under an airstrike to dying...

The Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria has refuted media allegations that the Turkish military blocked the Russian military police on a patrol mission along the M4 highway in the Idlib de-escalation zone. "Reports circulated by certain network resources...