“Sesame Street” in the past year has tackled everything from foster care to substance abuse. Now its latest effort is trying to help children suffering as a result of the Syrian civil war. Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street” — has launched a...

At least four displaced people, including two women were killed Wednesday in Russian air strikes hit Atareb town in northern Aleppo province, rescue workers told Zaman al-Wasl. The airstrikes and shelling came amid a regime offensive on the northwestern provinces of Idlib, the last...

Former resident in Germany has been killed by rebels in northern Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Abdul Rahaman Jallad, 22, was killed along with 20 militants when rebels launched a surprise attack on Tel Msaitef in eastern Idlib region, sources said....

The world needs to prepare for a surge in refugees with potentially millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday. Speaking to Reuters at the World Economic Forum, Filippo Grandi said a...

A Turkish charity distributed food packages to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Syria. The IDPs have fled bombings by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Aleppo to Afrin, a province which was cleared of terrorists by a Turkey-backed military operation. Dozens of civilians have...

The head of Syria’s White Helmets (Civil Defense) Tuesday said the Syrian regime sought to capture opposition-controlled northwestern Idlib city of Syria through forced evacuations. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Raed al-Saleh commented on the Bashar al-Assad regime and its...

Russian air strikes killed 12 civilians Tuesday in northwestern Syria, as renewed violence tightened the noose around the country's last major opposition bastion and deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis. Two of the victims were killed in a southern area of Idlib province while the...

Dozens of civilians have lost their lives in Syria’s Idlib and tens of thousands of others have been displaced since Jan. 12, as the regime forces and its allies continued to violate cease-fire. According to data obtained from the country’s Response Coordination Group, the Assad regime has...

I stood in the muddy field of one of the 1,150 camps for the internally displaced people in Idlib. It was raining and the mud was a couple of feet deep. It’s very cold here in January, but children were walking in light shoes and slippers. Just three weeks before my medical mission, there...

In an overcrowded desert camp for families linked to the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, a French woman begged for another chance so she and her children could go home. In the same settlement, two other French women were more tepid about the prospect of repatriation, with one...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed rebels have seized residents' property in the border town of Ras al-Ayn, seeking to settle their families on the expense of residents, local activists said Sunday.  About 80 vehicles carrying 60 families of the National Army fighters crossed into Ras...

Russian forces carried out fresh airstrikes on a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, killing at least nine civilians, local sources said on Monday. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, Russian warplanes targeted the rural areas of the northwestern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee was stoned to death by two men in the Lebanese Naema town in Chouf region, activists said Sunday. No more details have been revealed about the killing of Abdul Rahman al-Akari, 31, father of three children. Revenge attacks and violence against...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Faten al Hamawi, pseudonym, was arrested twice in 2014 despite the fact that she did not participate in the student or popular peaceful protests.  The Law student was arrested for the first time in the campus as she was humiliated and dragged by her hair in front...

The women of eastern Aleppo were rarely visible before the war, but now they shape the bitter peace. In the poor, conservative districts of Syria’s ancient commercial capital, many women seldom used to leave the house, and only with their husbands if they did; the men not only won the bread,...

US soldiers present in regions under YPG group’s control in Syria, on Saturday stopped Russian soldiers who wanted to reach oil fields, according to a report by Anadolu Agency. Dispute between the US and Russia about the Rumeylan oil field in northeast Hasakah is ongoing....

France's President Emmanuel Macron Sunday hit out against foreign troop deployments in war-ravaged Libya, saying such intervention only serves to fuel the conflict and create new risks for everyone. Voicing his "acute concerns over the arrival of Syrian and foreign fighters in the city of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 27,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo in the past 72 hours since regime forces backed by Shiite militias began major offensive on Friday, local war monitoring said.  The Syrian Response Coordinators Group...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed factions have thwarted an incursion by regime forces into strategic hilltops in northern Idlib region, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The regime army backed by allied militias was pushing to take the hilltops of Khatra and Mosaitef but the...

Syrian teacher Ahmad al Hilal listens to his young pupils sitting on a mat reciting the Arabic alphabet in a makeshift school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp city along the Turkish border. Many ran for their lives with their mothers under heavy aerial bombing by...