Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Tuesday he would be "risking the future" of his regime if he allowed Iran to be entrenched militarily in his country. "We will not allow Iran to establish a military presence in Syria," he told reporters...

At least one soldier was killed and three more wounded in attack by unknown assailants in the western Qalamoun region near Damascus, residents told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The armed group opened fire on the army's checkpoint in the town of Talfita early morning, leaving four killed...

A video of three men in Lebanon sexually assaulting a Syrian child who is estimated to be under the age of 13 has gone viral on social media, infuriating the local population. The video showed the three young men kidnapping the child, beating him, and forcing him to engage in sexual...

Syria's government has announced the termination of duty free contracts with companies affiliated with President Bashar al-Assad's billionaire cousin Rami Makhlouf as part of an ongoing spat between the two men. The economy ministry, in a post Sunday on Facebook, said contracts had been...

Two children suffered injuries on Monday due to the explosion of a landmine planted by the Daesh/ISIS terror group in northern Syria. The explosion took place in the Al-Sukkariyah district in the Syrian city of Al-Bab. In February 2017, Turkish troops and the Syrian National Army (SNA)...

Aid organizations made a plea Monday for world leaders to boost financial support to conflict-torn Syria where around 11 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, on the eve of a major donor conference hosted by the European Union. The conflict has killed more than 400,000...

Since the beginning of peaceful demonstrations in Mach 2011, the Syrian regime has used all brutal and inhumane means to silence the voice of the revolution, randomly arresting thousands of civilians and detaining them in Assad’s prisons and security branches to be experience the most horrific...

The Syrian regime artillery on Monday has pounded a Turkish military outpost in northern Idlib province, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.  No casualties were reported in the attack on the observation point in Jabal al-Zawiya region. Over the past weeks, the Turkish...

 Air strikes targeting positions of Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria killed nine fighters Sunday in the second such raid in 24 hours, a war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel was "likely responsible" for the strikes near the Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rapper Ali Junaid is another Syrian militant who applied for asylum in Germany in 2016 despite his service in the National  Defense Units, the main armed wing of Bashar al-Assad. Junaid, 26, entered Germany through Turkey and earlier this year he moved from...

  Six pro-Iranian fighters were killed late Saturday during alleged Israeli air strikes targeting positions belonging to regime forces and Tehran-backed militias in eastern Deir Ezzor province, a war monitor said. Four Syrian nationals were among those killed in the raids on the...

Mounting concerns that the implementation of the U.S. Caesar  sanctions will negatively affect civilians are somewhat justified.  Loyalists and opposition alike have attacked Caesar sanctions for contributing to the deepening impoverishment of some of the Syrian people and...

Years of violence in Syria's last major opposition bastion has created a landscape of ruin, eerily lit in the early hours of Saturday by the Milky Way in the night sky. Over the bombed-out town of Ariha in Idlib province, the stars looked like specks of dust shining over the town's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Bashar al-Assad backed by Russian Intelligence reports has dismantled an espionage network, including top security and army officers, a-well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. Maj. General Ma'an Hussein, one of Assad's top aides and the head of the...

The Libyan army on Friday said Russian planes, carrying Syrian mercenaries and weapons, made at least 11 landings at the al-Ghardabiya Airbase in the city of Sirte, local media reported. The planes transported mercenaries from Syria and six Pantsir air defense systems, as well as weapons...

Award-winning Palestinian director Yasmin Fedda's latest documentary, "Ayouni", sheds light on Syria's forced disappearances through the intimate stories of Noura, widow of cyber-activist Bassel Safadi, and Machi, sister of Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio, who was abducted in Raqqa in 2013 and...

Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, UN aid agencies said Friday. The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 50 prisoners from southern Daraa province were released due to a special amnesty by Bashar al-Assad, a local rights group said Friday. Assad's move came to ease tensions amid a hike in skirmishes over past months in the cradle of the Syrian revolution....

Russia has quit a United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties, according to a UN note to aid groups seen Thursday. The Russian move comes after an internal UN inquiry in April found it was "highly...

A total of 14,388 people tortured to death in Syrian civil war since March 2011 were mostly by the Bashar al-Assad regime, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). Ahead of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, SNHR, which documents violations of civil...