(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian President Bashar Assad replaced Monday the internal trade minister as the country's economic crisis worsens with prices of consumer goods increasing and the local currency reaching record lows. Syria’s economy has been ravaged by nine years of war and western...

Syria's top tycoon publicly airing his grievances has revealed a power struggle within the ruling family as it tries to cement its power after nine years of war, analysts say. After years of staying out of the limelight, business magnate Rami Makhlouf this month in two videos on Facebook...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s largest and only mobile network operators, MTN and Syriatel announced the resignation of three of their top managers, without revealing any reasons for the decision. In a disclosure statement addressed to the Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities...

At least 18 civilians were wounded in a bomb attack carried out by the YPG/PKK terror group in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the terrorist group targeted an Operation Euphrates Shield area. At...

Clashes in northwest Syria killed 48 regime fighters and jihadists Sunday in the highest such death toll since the start of a two-month-old ceasefire there, a monitor said. A truce since March 6 had largely stemmed fighting in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib after a months-long...

Syria's government Sunday banned cars with large engines from receiving subsidised petrol in the latest move to curb a hydrocarbon crisis in the war-torn country the government blames on sanctions. Heating fuel, petrol and cooking gas have been in short supply over the past two years in...

Clashes in northwest Syria killed 22 regime fighters and jihadists Sunday in the highest such death toll since the start of a two-month-old ceasefire there, a monitor said. A truce since March 6 had largely stemmed fighting in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib after a months-long...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 Syrian fighters will leave to Libya from Russia's Hmeimim airbase in coastal Latakia region to join Khalifa Haftar's forces near Tripoli, a well-informed source told Zaman Al-Wasl Sunday.  A Russian cargo aircraft is due to transfer the former rebels...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A blaze flared up in barley crops in eastern Deir Ezzor province has destroyed 10 hectares at the start of the harvest season, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Local farmers have extinguished the fire that hit the unharvested barley crop in the desert Abu Khashab...

Ahmad al-Mostafa can't afford milk for his baby daughter. A Syrian refugee, he has barely been able to feed his family since Lebanon sank into economic crisis last year. But now, a coronavirus lockdown has made things even worse. "Nobody will hire us anymore," said the 28-year-old, who lost...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition factions on Saturday have launched a Grad missile attack on Hmeimim military airbase in coastal Latakia region, sources said. The attack on Russia’s main airbase in Syria was in retaliation to a new regime army attack in northern Idlib province despite...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The cries of Hamza, a pseudonym, echoed through the corridors of the military hospital after doctor Alaa Moussa has set fire to his genitals, leading to severe burns and damage that is, according to urologist, doctor Mohamed Wahbi, impossible to undo. Doctor Wahbi, who...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces thwarted an incursion attempt by regime forces and allied militias in northern Idlib region, military source told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday.   Bashar al-Assad's forces pushed separately into the towns of Falaifel and Maarat Alia in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- There are almost daily fights and individual or group clashes among refugees and migrants, who are seeking the european dream, inside and outside the Greek islands. Tensions soar whether between Afghans or Africans in the Greek islands or on the mainland (refugee camps...

Liwaa Al Quds brigade, affiliated with the Syrian regime, has reportedly been buying civilian homes and property in Ein Tel (Handarat) refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, in Aleppo, at low prices. Local sources told AGPS that contractors and brokers having close ties to Liwaa Al Quds...

The first quarantine centre has been set up in northwestern Syria to screen travellers for fear they could transmit the novel coronavirus to the war-torn region, which has yet to officially record any cases of Covid-19.  The centre, which opened in mid-April, is located in the town of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 regime and allied fighters from coastal Tartus province were killed in four weeks by opposition forces in northern Syria, pro-regime accounts said. The death toll has included two officers officers. Opposition factions and hardline groups have...

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria. Dozens of men and children sat out on a long line of blankets on the ground in the town of Atareb for the iftar, when Muslims break...

Thousands of refugees along Syria's border with Jordan are at risk of contracting the coronavirus and other diseases because of a lack of basic medical care and sanitation, Amnesty International warned.  Located in a no-man's land along the Syria-Jordan border, the Rukban camp,...

The U.N. human rights chief Friday accused Daesh (ISIS) and other factions in Syria of taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to step up violence on civilians, describing the situation as a "ticking time-bomb." United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet lamented a surge in violence in...