(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition groups said Turkey has shut the northwestern border crossing of Bab al-Hawa after the fifth coronavirus case was detected on Friday.  The crossing will be closed for three weeks as the entry is restricted to aid and goods, the administration of...

Syrian authorities on Friday announced measures aimed at preventing coronavirus from reaching the war-torn country, including school closures and a ban on smoking shisha in cafes, state media reported. Damascus ordered the closure of all public and private schools, universities and...

Turkish and Russian officials agreed Friday to start joint patrols in Syria's Idlib at the weekend, Turkey's defence minister said, following a fragile ceasefire in the last rebel stronghold. "Both sides have signed the prepared text, and it has entered into force. We will see the first...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian forces closed a crossing point with Kurdish-held areas in northern Aleppo province to prevent a novel coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement issued Friday. The National Army said the closure of Oun al-Dadat crossing was over concerns...

Turkish observation posts in Syria’s Idlib region will remain in place and function despite being encircled by Syrian government forces, a Turkish security official said on Friday, a week after Ankara and Moscow agreed a ceasefire deal. Turkey and Russia, which back opposing sides in...

Hamad al-Abdallah has installed wifi and insulation in his new concrete room, trying to make the most of the desperate conditions his family has endured since fleeing Syrian regime bombardments. They were among the lucky ones to move into the new, 24-square-metre concrete homes provided by...

At the heart of Syria's latest humanitarian crisis, locals call Idlib "the forgotten city", still paying the price for one day in the 1970s when the former president was pelted with tomatoes. The city and its surroundings have suffered furious bombardments since December at the hands of...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 190 women and children have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local activists said Thursday.   The freed families headed their homes in the village of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge blaze ripped through a school building established by Jewish and Arab Israelis in the Greek island of Lesbos for Syrian children. According to reports by Israeli newspapers, the school administration described the fire as suspicious. The fire coincided with the...

The leaders of Turkey and Russia held a phone conversation on Thursday in which they acknowledged a significant decrease in tensions in Idlib, northwestern Syria, following the cease-fire agreement reached last week. According to a statement by the Kremlin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish and Russian officials have largely reached an agreement on details of a ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib region during talks in Ankara, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying by state media on Thursday. Last week, Turkey and Russia agreed on the ceasefire meant to halt...

An air strike killed 26 fighters of Iraqi paramilitary group Hashed al-Shaabi in eastern Syria after a deadly attack on U.S.-led coalition troops in Iraq, a war monitor said Thursday. Updating its toll for the Wednesday strike, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it...

First he lost three fingers, later his hearing in one ear. Then all at once, both his legs and eyes. Ibrahim al-Ali was wounded every time he tried to escape Syria's war. In a camp for the displaced near the Turkish border, the 33-year-old father of four shows the scars he has sustained in...

The guns may have died down around Damascus as Syria's war enters its 10th year, but florist Abdelqader Qasem says the conflict has left scars he will never forget. The 42-year-old limps slightly as he carries two tree saplings in his right hand in a city market, the empty left sleeve of...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Wednesday that his military would launch its harshest retaliation yet if the Syrian government breaks a fragile truce in Idlib province brokered last week. The cease-fire arranged by Turkey and Russia - which support opposing sides in the...

In Syria's northwest, where people uprooted by war are crammed into camps, medics fear the coronavirus would spread widely if it reaches a country with its healthcare system in ruins. Doctors and aid workers say they have recorded no cases so far. But they warned that camps would not cope...

A Syrian defector whose thousands of gruesome photos documented abuse under President Bashar al-Assad appealed Wednesday for action to ensure accountability as he appeared incognito before the US Congress. The former Syrian military photographer, who goes by the pseudonym Caesar, fled in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Canadian filmmaker, Jonathan Keijser, is about to end his film Peace by Chocolate, which spotlight the journey of "Hodhod" family in success and fame in the chocolate industry, since the opening of its first factory in a suburb of Damascus in 1986, and the export of its...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that it has documented more than 500 military attacks on medical facilities in Syria since it began counting them in 2016, with nearly as many deaths among staff and patients. About two-thirds of those struck were in Syria’s northwest...

The Syrian regime army has finished building and equipping the deserted Hassia prison in central Homs province ,  Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The so-called the Military Disciplinary Center  is located on the western side of the Homs-Damascus highway,...