(Zaman Al-Wasl)- Two Syrian people were killed on Sunday when Turkish forces opened fire on demonstrators blocking the M4 highway in northern Idlib province. According to Zaman al-Wasl reporter, the Turkish army has fired live bullets and tear gas to resolve a sit-in in the town of...

As Russian maestro Valery Gergiev strolled onstage amid the ruins of Palmyra in 2016, few were in any doubt how much of a PR coup the orchestral concert was for Russia. Moscow had helped recapture a historic site, ravaged by ISIS, but more importantly, they had beaten the Iranians to...

The families of people missing in Syria’s notorious prison system say they fear they will never see their loved ones again due to the spread of coronavirus, as a landmark trial over state-sponsored torture gets under way. It is estimated that anywhere between 75,000 and over 200,000...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has released 24 prisoners from eastern Deir Ezzor province after being held for years in the notorious Sednaya prison, activists said Saturday. Pro-regime media accounts said the release of opposition prisoners was a goodwill gesture on the first day...

  (Zaman Al Wasl) - The Lebanese General Security said a 17-year-old Syrian refugee was died in prison due to a heart attack as activists voiced doubts about the death reason.    The body of Mohamed Ahmed Al-Dahham was handed over to his relatives for burial on Friday....

 The Syrian Air Force has bought three VIP helicopters despite the ailing economy and miserable living conditions due to the nine-year-old war, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Bashar al-Assad has obtained the VIP version of the Russian  Ansat-UT helicopters, according to a...

The main defendant in the first trial on state-sponsored torture in Syria sought police protection in Germany because he felt threatened by Bashar al-Assad's intelligence service after he switched sides, a German court was told Friday. Anwar Raslan, 57, is in the docks charged with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian lecturer and former detainee Omar Al-Shogre has received the Leadership Award from the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustav for having leadership skills and noble attributes like sympathy and courage and the willingness to build a better future for humans. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian troops were killed and six more wounded in a blast bomb in the eastern province of Raqqa, activists said Thursday. The blast took place near the town of Ein Issa in the northern countryside of Raqqa.  Regime forces and allied fighters have come...

Palestinian families continue to call on the concerned authorities to allow them a safe return to their homes in Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, and to press ahead with reconstruction projects. On January 07, 2020, Palestinian lawyer Nour AlDeen AlSaman, a resident of Yarmouk Camp, called on...

On a coronavirus ward in an east London hospital, award-winning film-maker Hassan Akkad, a refugee from Syria, is working as a cleaner, joining the fight against the pandemic in his adopted home. “I’m so glad to be helping,” Akkad said in an interview on Zoom. The 32-year old refugee...

Russia on Thursday praised Turkey's efforts in Idlib, northwestern Syria that aim to eliminate terrorists. Speaking at a news conference in the capital, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow expects the Turkish military to separate opposition groups from what it called...

Two former members of Syria's secret police appeared in court in Germany Thursday accused of crimes against humanity for their role in a government-run detention center where thousands of opposition protesters were tortured. The trial of Anwar R. and Eyad A., whose last names weren't...

A team of volunteers in Syria have cobbled together prototypes of a ventilator and a testing machine - homemade equipment to fight the new coronavirus if it hits the last rebel stronghold, where hospitals lie in ruins after nine years of war. The group of 12, mainly technicians and...

Residents of a northeastern Syrian village blocked a road and threw stones at a U.S. military convoy Wednesday forcing it to leave the area, state media and an opposition war monitor reported. It was the second such incident in the region in two months. No one was hurt in the confrontation...

Last month’s cease-fire in Idlib, northwestern Syria, is proving to be a blessing for the country, as many civilians who returned to their homes are working and trying to earn a living. Farming and fishery activities have started to flourish again in the wake of the cease-fire, reached by...

The first trial of suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, including torture and sexual assault, starts in Germany Thursday. Campaigners have hailed the process as a first step towards justice for thousands of Syrians who say...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian army on Wednesday has withdrawn forces from some neighborhoods in northern Aleppo city in a precautionary step to avoid the Coronavirus pandemic, activists said. Most of Russian forces in Aleppo city are based in the Bustan al-Qaser neighborhood which...

A Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon has been put on lockdown after the UN announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in one of the country's numerous and crowded camps. The patient, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, has been taken to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in Beirut,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has executed a 19-year-old man in northern Aleppo province over claims of blasphemy, the militant group said Tuesday. Activists have denounced blasphemy allegations, saying the young man was executed due to messages found in his phone...