A Russia-backed Syrian regime offensive on the last major rebel bastion in the country's northwest has displaced more than 800,000 people since December, the United Nations said on Thursday. "Of the more than 800,000 people who have been displaced in northwest Syria from 1 December 2019 to...

 (Zmaan Al Wasl)- About 250 refugees have voluntary returned to Syrian from Lebanon, the Lebanese General Security said Thursday. Ten buses carrying 150 refugees to Qusayr town and 150 more to Damascus suburbs crossed the border into Syria through Masnaa crossings. ...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iman Layla, a displaced infant form Eastern Ghouta suburbs, died of cold in a makeshifts camp near northern Afrin city, medics said Thursday. Iman was suffering from a respiratory infection due to the cold winter that left the stranded refugees in a tragic...

Germany has called on Russia on Thursday to use its influence on the Syrian regime to stop its offensive in northwestern Syria. “These attacks must be stopped,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in an exclusive interview with the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung. “We are now...

Syria's parliament Thursday recognised the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide, as tensions run high with Turkey after deadly clashes in northwest Syria. "The parliament... condemns and recognises the genocide committed against the Armenians by the Ottoman state at...

German judges Thursday sentenced a Syrian man to three and a half years in prison for crimes including posing with the head of a decapitated corpse in his home country. Identified only as Kassim A., the 34-year-old received one and a half years from the superior state court in Koblenz for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the outbreak of the revolution, Hilal Muhamad Al-Kin and her husband joined the rebels, demanding freedom and dignity. She lived through the 700-day siege of Homs, during which she led the demonstrations of the women of Jouret Al-Shayah, cooked for members of the Free...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- During the first stages of the Syrian revolution, many officers and soldiers defected from the Syrian army and joined the ranks of the rebels to defend their families and their homes. However, with Russia’s military political, and even media and psychological meddling,...

Turkey's Defence Ministry said Wednesday that its forces neutralized 55 Syrian regime soldiers in northwestern Idlib province. “According to the latest information received from our sources in Idlib, 55 regime troops have been neutralized today,” the ministry said in a statement....

Suffering of Syrian refugees in Arsal city, northern Lebanon, continues amid the cold winter which leaves the refugees vulnerable in a tragic situation. The Syrians living in the refugee camps in northern Lebanon are highly suffering of the extreme cold weather, where many children,...

Turkey will keep supporting oppressed people irrespective of geographical boundaries, including those in Idlib, Syria, who have no links to terror groups, the country's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. "The Turkish Armed Forces -- key to peace in our region -- stand by our brothers in...

 Russia on Wednesday has killed four civilians in fresh airstrikes on northwestern Idlib province, topping the death toll to 50 in the past 48 hours, activists said. The heavy aerial bombing on last rebel stronghold came as Syrian regime forces pushed on with their offensive,...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said its troops opened fire on Wednesday at a checkpoint in northeast Syria after they came under small arms fire. The coalition said in a statement the situation was calmed down and the patrol returned to the base. Earlier, Syrian and...

In northeastern Syria, prisons and detention camps hold thousands of men, women and children whose lives are in limbo nearly a year after the final defeat of Islamic State to which they once belonged. The area around Qamishli city is mainly controlled by Kurdish fighters who helped defeat...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Turkey was not upholding agreements it made with Moscow to “neutralize” militants in the Syrian province of Idlib and that militant attacks on Syrian and Russian forces were continuing in the region. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow remained...

Syrian regime forces Wednesday pushed on with their offensive in the country's northwest, securing areas along a key national highway they seized, as tensions spiralled with Turkey which supports rebel groups. After a series of tit-for-tat attacks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A photo exhibition for Syria’s mass torture photos was held for a week in the French city of Limoges due to an initiative by Syrian lawyers and advocates. The photo selection was of 53,275 torture photographs smuggled out of Syria in August 2013 by a military...

Turkey's military will strike Syrian regime forces by air or ground anywhere in Syria if another Turkish soldier is hurt, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Erdogan said Turkey is determined to push Syrian government forces beyond Turkish observation posts in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's air power is not the only reason behind Bashar al-Assad's gains in northern Syria but the favor returns to the Russian-backed The 25th Special Missions Division, military experts say. The special task group, which was known as the Tiger Force led by Brigadier...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A photo exhibition for Syrian journalist Firas Abdullah took place in Paris last Thursday, delivering a powerful testimony of the Syrian horror during the nine-year-old war. The exhibition includes a selection of photos taken in Ghouta suburbs, the eastern enclave of...