A 22-year-old soldier from North Carolina has died in a rollover accident in Syria, the Defense Department said Saturday. Spc. Antonio I. Moore, 22, of Wilmington, died Friday in Deir ez Zor Province, Syria, while conducting route-clearing operations, the department said. The incident...

Syrian regime forces have reached the outskirts of a key city on the edge of the country's last rebel-held stronghold, a monitor and a pro-government newspaper said Sunday. The mainly deserted city of Maaret al-Numan is a strategic prize lying on the M5 linking Damascus to Syria's second...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Greek authorities are due to deport a Syrian refugee family to Turkey under the pretext that their hometown in Deir Ezzor province is safe, activists said Saturday. Mohamed Kazem Hindawi, director of the Arab European Organization for Human Rights, said that the Greek...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the 14th-January Israeli airstrikes on the T-4 airbase had destroyed munitions and weapons transported by an Iranian cargo plane a few hours before the attack.  The source provided Zaman al-Wasl with satellite images show the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mother and her two children were killed Saturday in airstrikes on northern Idlib province as the Russian-backed regime forces step up attacks on rebel-held areas in the eastern countryside, activists said. Saturday's strikes targeted an array of villages west of Idlib...

Kurdish authorities said they transferred 21 orphans from a squalid displacement camp in northeast Syria on Saturday, including two French children who are set to be repatriated. The children, including some from France, Egypt and Dagestan, were only a fraction of the 224 orphans living in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese military sentenced has sentenced a Syrian refugee to three years of hard labor on charges of belonging to the Islamic state (ISIS) and planning to commit crimes against the Lebanese people and undermining the authority of the state, activists said Saturday. ...

(EQTSAD)- Peering under the hood of a car, Um Muhamad, 40, examines the engine’s parts, the brake fluid, and other components of the vehicle in an application of the knowledge she had gained during her driving and mechanics training course, the first of its kind in the liberated areas....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Top Turkish officials have alerted the commanders of Syrian National Army to prepare for a phase where confrontation might be the only option in light of diplomacy reaching a dead end in northwestern Syria, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The...

A funeral ceremony was held in south Lebanon for a Hezbollah field commander Friday, the Iran-backed group announced. Jaafar al-Sadek Harb was killed on the outskirts of Idlib on Thursday, according to a Hezbollah source. A statement from the group said that "Hezbollah and the...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Western countries of "bias" and "double standards" with selective aid to Syria's opposition territories. Speaking on Friday at a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, Lavrov said "key Western capitals" do not want to send...

With Syria's currency hitting record lows, a nationwide symbolic campaign has been launched by merchants, barbers, supermarkets and even gyms in the war-torn country to support the Syrian pound. Under the slogan "Our pound is our pride," the campaign encourages merchants to sell any...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 84 civilians, including 32 children, have been killed by the Russian-backed regime forces in ten days in northern Syria, Syria's Response Coordinators group said Friday. Five civilians, including three children killed Thursday in regime airstrikes on Idlib...

The United States has seen no uptick in Daesh (ISIS) activity in Syria and Iraq, U.S. special representative for Syria James Jeffrey said Thursday, weeks after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad. Jeffrey told reporters that U.S.-led coalition...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five civilians, including three children, were killed Thursday in fresh regime airstrikes on northern Idlib province as regime forces suffer setbacks and heavy losses. According to Zaman al-Wasl reporter, the victims were from the same family as regime strikes hit...

Up to 40 Syrian soldiers have been killed in an assault by hundreds of militants in north-western Syria, according to Russia's defence ministry. The ministry, which supports Syria's regime, said there were several attacks in which the militants seized two settlements in Idlib province....

Around 36,000 more civilians have fled their homes falling inside the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria over the last two days and the number of displaced civilians reached 450,000 since November 2019 due to attacks of the regime and its allies. According to Syria's Response Coordination...

Militants in Syria set off car bombs and used heavy gunfire to storm army positions in Idlib Thursday, state news agency SANA reported. The militant attack forced the army to redeploy and clashes were ongoing, SANA added. Idlib is the last rebel-held swathe of territory in the country...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As a result of the changing social conditions and the psychological pressure, as well as the difference in laws between Sweden and Syria, divorce rates among refugees have steadily increased. Iman Shahoud, Syrian legal advisor and former jurist in Aleppo courts,...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued “a very strong appeal” Wednesday for a political solution to Syria’s nearly nine-year conflict, and he called for a global “push-back against the push-back” on ensuring human rights. In a wide-ranging speech and question-and-answer session with...