Zaman al-Wasl publishes an exclusive report revealing the crimes of Mouwafak al-Dawah, the Syrian-Palestinian militant who applied for asylum in Germany after fighting for pro-Syrian regime militia in southern Damascus suburbs. Al-Dawah had committed more crimes during his fight for...

Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Tuesday that would have extended cross-border humanitarian aid to three million Syrians for a year.  The authorization, which has been in effect since 2014, is set to expire Friday. The resolution was drafted by...

At least 7 people, mostly women and children, were killed by a car bomb in the northeastern border town of Tal Abyad, activists said Tuesday. The Turkish-backed local council said at least 27 others were wounded by the blast. Most of the wounded people have been admitted to a Turkish...

 A roadside bombing on Wednesday killed one pro-regime fighter and wounded others in the eastern countryside of Hama province. The suspected-Daesh attack near Atharyia road has followed days of clashes between regime forces and the radical group in the central desert province of...

Western countries pushed members of the global chemical weapons watchdog Tuesday to formally condemn Syria after a probe explicitly blamed Damascus for nerve gas attacks for the first time. A report in April by a new investigations team at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

The issue of deportation has arisen once again to haunt Syrian refugees in Denmark, with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), which is supposed to be responsible for receiving and integrating refugees, readjusting their mission to repatriate them using all means, including financial incentives. In...

Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes amounting to war crimes on schools, hospitals and markets in Idlib province, UN investigators said Tuesday in a report that also condemned attacks by jihadist fighters. They said that "indiscriminate bombardment" by...

On a riverbank in Syria's Hama, Mohammed Sultan tinkers away on a giant water wheel, one of a dwindling number of artisans able to restore the city's ancient wooden landmarks. Used for centuries to bring water to gardens and buildings on the shores of the Orontes River, the water wheels or...

The Israeli spy Eli Cohen was not the only agent who succeeded in penetrating Syria’s regime in 1960s. Repeatedly, Mossad operations were able to infiltrate high-profile branches of the regime including the ministry of defense and important military units and security systems, which were...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the summer of 2018, Ahmad al-Hourani, 40, a former opposition fighter,  signed with his brother Salam (then 26), the so-called reconciliation agreement with the Syrian regime in southern Daraa province.  Ahmed, who used a pseudonym in fear of...

One Syrian displaced was killed by an improvised explosive device in the northern city of Afrin, topping the suspected Kurdish attacks on the Turkish-held region to four in a month, local activists said Monday. Another displaced person was wounded in the IED attack that hit their...

Alaa Arnous and his family found the photo of his father Mohammed online last week, the first proof of his fate since he was seized by Syrian government forces seven years ago. The image showed his corpse, his face battered and bruised, his mouth hanging open. The elder Arnous was among...

Four Syrian refugees, including three children, have died after falling down in a 65 foot deep well in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, activists said Sunday. The tragic incident began when three Syrian children fell into an abandoned well in the Shalfa district near...

 A Syrian police officer was killed and two civilians injured Friday in a roadside bomb in the Turkish-held city of Afrin in northwestern Syria.   The bomb rocked a crowded place in the city center, a security source told Turkish Anadolu Agency. Ten days ago, a rigged...

The Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) has reviewed thousands of files of Syrians residing in the Netherlands. The vetting resulted in the revocation of residency of dozens of refugees for their involvement in a variety of crimes amounting for some to war crimes, showing the...

The wife of a self-described aid worker stripped of his British nationality has called for his release after he was detained by extremist in Syria's last major rebel bastion. Tauqir Sharif, 33, was detained on June 22 by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a dominant group in Syria's...

Clashes between Russia-backed Syrian regime forces and the Daesh group have killed more than 40 fighters on the two sides in just 48 hours, a Britain-based war monitor said Saturday. Fighting and Russian air strikes in the central desert province of Homs since late Thursday have taken...

As coronavirus cases spike, public health officials are pleading with Americans to avoid large crowds and hold more muted Independence Day celebrations, but subdued is not President Donald Trump's style, and he aimed to go big, promising a “special evening” in Washington that could bring tens...

Alaa Arnous and his family found the photo of his father Mohammed online last week, the first proof of his fate since he was seized by Syrian government forces seven years ago. The image showed his corpse, his face battered and bruised, his mouth hanging open. The elder Arnous was among...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Bashar al-Assad has arrested Imad Khamis, a newly-sacked prime minister, over corruption claims, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. Khamis has been held in a prison run by the repubican Guard near Assad's palace where he is undergoing an...