At least four civilians, including children, were injured Saturday when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded in the opposition-held city of Afrin in northern Syria.  In Afrin’s city center, a bomb planted in a parked car exploded, a security source told Anadolu Agency. The attack...

Lebanon is currently the home to some 900,000 refugees who have fled Syria’s bloody civil war. But after Lebanon’s economy crashed late last year and the country was hit by the coronavirus crisis, the refugees are struggling even more to put food on the table. FRANCE 24’s Leila Molana Allen...

China will set up a "national security agency" in Hong Kong to oversee a forthcoming new law aimed at cracking down on dissent in the city, state media said on Saturday. The new law also would override any existing Hong Kong laws that may conflict with it once it is implemented, Xinhua...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A crop fire destroyed about 40 hectares in southern Sweida province late on Friday, local activists said. The massive fire flared up in the Dafn area in the southern countryside.  Firefighters backed by farmers and residents were able to extinguish the fire...

A summer rainstorm has partly damaged 30 refugee camps in northwestern Syria, rescue group said Friday. The floods have washed away dozens of tents along the Turkish border, according to the Syrian Response Coordination group.  More than one million people have been...

 At least eight Turkish-backed forces were killed in an attack carried out by the YPG militia in the northern Afrin region, Zaman Al Wasl reporter said. From Tal Rifat district, the YPG militants attempted to infiltrate front lines in Bassouta area in the south of Afrin...

This is an especially challenging time for Syrian refugees living in Turkey, as most of them work in the service sector, the very front line of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a local sociologist. “Syrians living in Turkey can face much bigger challenges during the pandemic,” said...

A draft UN resolution would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest and reopen an Iraqi crossing to the northeast to deliver medical supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia, which insisted the Iraqi crossing be...

As Syria's economy plummeted further, the local Kurdish-led authority controlled by US-backed fighters in the country's north said Thursday it was more than doubling the salaries of its employees to make up for the loss of the value of the Syrian pound. The announcement came a day after...

Seven Syrians who suffered or witnessed rape and sexual abuse in detention centres under President Bashar al-Assad's regime have submitted a criminal complaint to prosecutors in Germany, an NGO supporting them said Thursday. The four women and three men were held in various detention...

It was still dark in Damascus as I walked down the stairs, my new life contained in a red suitcase. My mother stood next to the taxi door praying for my safety. My father was silent, certain that he would never see me again. I lowered the taxi window and waved to my parents until they...

Iran on Thursday condemned as inhumane a fresh round of U.S. sanctions against its regional ally Syria and said it would expand its trade ties with Damascus. The United States on Wednesday imposed its toughest sanctions targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to choke off revenue for his...

More than one percent of the world's population - a record 80 million people - have now been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, the UN said Thursday. By the end of 2019, one out of every 97 people in the world was living uprooted and displaced, according to a fresh...

Since mid-2019, the rift between Bashar al-Assad and his maternal cousin and tycoon Rami Makhlouf has been growing wider, despite both parties’ initial attempts to find solutions and to keep the dispute from the public. However, with Rami Makhlouf’s media appearance, earlier this year,...

In the last bastion of the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians who fled his rule see new U.S. sanctions as a step in the right direction but say they must be shielded from any fallout as the currency crumbles. The toughest U.S. sanctions yet against Damascus came into...

Nine years after tens of thousands of people were forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime during a crackdown on peaceful protesters, family members are still waiting for answers about their loved ones. An estimated 144,889 people have been imprisoned since the start of the revolution in...

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife and dozens of others as it vowed a vast pressure campaign under a new law that has already rattled the war-torn nation's economy. "We anticipate many more sanctions and we will not stop until Assad...

Syria's central bank devalued the Syrian pound Wednesday giving in to weeks of depreciation on the black market as new US sanctions took effect. The central bank raised the official exchange rate from 704 to 1,256 Syrian pounds to the dollar, in a statement published on its social media...

The UN special envoy for Syria said Tuesday he hopes that talks on drafting a new constitution for the country can be held in late August, warning the war-torn nation has plunged into economic crisis with rising fears among its people. Geir Pedersen told the UN. Security Council that a...

An uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad was sentenced to four years in prison in France on Wednesday for illegally using Syrian state funds to build a French real estate empire. The anti-corruption groups that launched the legal proceedings against Rifaat Assad announced the decision...