Russia wants to significantly expand its military bases in war-torn Syria, the Interfax news agency cited a government resolution as saying on Friday. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Defense and Foreign Ministries to hold talks with Bashar Assad's government over obtaining...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian military police have exhumed 14 bodies for ISIS jihadists, mostly from Uzbekistan and Chechnya, who purportedly killed by opposition forces in northern Aleppo province years ago, military source told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The jihadists were members of the...

The coronavirus pandemic could create a new world order in which everyone is a loser and new alliances are born to overcome disaster, Syrian thinker Imad Fawzi Shueibi said. The Damascus University professor in epistemology, or theory of knowledge, said the deadly virus had altered human...

Militias fighting alongside the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad destroyed and desecrated the grave of the eighth Umayyad Caliph Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz yesterday, located in the north-west province of Idlib. Video footage of the destruction emerged on social media yesterday, showing the...

(Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria)- Property-theft and burglary targeting civilian homes and property have increasingly been reported in Yarmouk Camp. Stolen materials include house furniture, ware, and power wires. Flocks of vehicles laden with belongings stolen from abandoned...

EU foreign ministers on Thursday decided to extend sanctions for one more year against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and its supporters. The restrictive measures have been in place since 2011 in response to the violent repression of the civilian population. “EU’s sanctions target...

Turkish and Russian military elements performed the 13th joint patrol along a key highway in Idlib, northwestern Syria, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 13th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in Idlib...

Syrian Activists surfaced on social media  photos of a Turkish citizen, originally from Syria, as he showed support to Turkish opposition party (CHP) and for Bashar al-Assad. In the first picture, the man, who known as Gunai,  has appeared standing beside a...

A Turkish soldier was killed in the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib on Wednesday after an explosion along the M4 highway, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said in a statement. Earlier, Turkey’s private Demiroren news agency had reported that the explosion was caused by a roadside bomb but the...

 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said on Wednesday the situation in Libya was very worrying, warning the Syria scenario was being replicated in the country. "The crisis is deepening. We are facing a 'Syrianisation' of Libya," Le Drian told a French Senate hearing.

The UN sent Wednesday 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where millions are in urgent need of assistance. The trucks carrying supplies entered Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in southern Hatay province of Turkey, bordering Idlib. The aid...

Six militants were killed Wednesday in an explosion that hit their arms depot in northwest Syria while Russian warplanes flew overhead, a war monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not say if Russia was behind the blast that killed the non-Syrian...

 A huge fire has swept more than 150 hectares of palm and olive trees in the historic city of Palmyra in Syrian desert, state-run news agency said Tuesday. SANA said a third of Palmyra Oasis orchards had been destroyed, which has a total area of ​​about 400 hectares. The...

The leader of the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group in Iraq was killed in an airstrike in eastern Syria, the Iraqi government said on Tuesday. According to a statement by the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, Moataz Numan Abdel Nayef Najm al-Jabouri was killed in an airstrike in Syria's Deir...

Syrian authorities loosened coronavirus lockdown restrictions Tuesday by cancelling a nighttime curfew, allowing travel between provinces and announcing a reopening of mosques, state media said. The decision comes as the war-torn country grapples with a crippling economic crisis and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been eight years since one of the most gruesome massacres committed against tens of unarmed civilians in the town of Al-Houla, in central Homs province. Residents of Al-Houla like their fellow revolutionary Syrians acrossout the country went to streets to demand...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syrian settlement in a phone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi on Monday. The two leaders agreed to coordinate the steps aiming to achieve a sustainable peace in Syria, the Kremlin said in a statement on its official...

Traffic returned to a major highway in northeastern Syria for the first time in seven months Monday, following Russian mediation to reopen parts of the road captured last year by Turkey-backed opposition fighters. Syrian Kurdish media and a Syrian Kurdish official said several vehicles...

Syria reported 20 new cases of the novel coronavirus Monday, the largest single-day increase to date, the health ministry said. The war-torn country has recorded 106 infections and four deaths so far, and new cases have increased in recent days. It brings the total recorded...

Food prices in Syria have risen to their highest levels since conflict erupted nine years ago, putting more than half the country’s population at risk of hunger, aid workers and economists have warned. The cost of a representative basket of staple foods has doubled in just over six...