Living in a mud-drenched camp with only a makeshift tent as protection from the freezing weather is more difficult than facing the regime's bombs, a Syrian teenager who took refuge with her family in Idlib, northwestern Syria told Anadolu Agency. Erva Mervan, 13, is one of many who came to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Syria on Tuesday and met with officials including President Bashar Assad, Syrian state media and a Kremlin spokesman reported. Putin's visit is the second to the war-torn country where his troops have been fighting alongside Syrian...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights released on Sunday a detailed report documenting the human rights situation in Syria and outlining the most notable human rights violations in 2019, particularly in December, at the hands of the warring parties.   The 38-page report outlines the...

When Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare visit to Tehran last year, the powerful Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani was there to greet him, along with Iran's supreme leader and president. Iran's foreign minister wasn't, and he resigned in protest at being excluded from talks...

At least 27 civilians have been found dead in eastern Raqqa province, local sources said on Monday. According to the sources, the victims, who were local sheep herders, were beheaded and left in Madan and Sapha districts. The whereabouts of ten more people was still unknown,...

Victim of almost nine-year-old Syrian civil war, Umm Ibrahim is so desperate that she prefers dying, instead of hearing warplane sound. Ibrahim is a grieving woman who lost her husband and two sons in the attacks of Syrian regime and its supporters in Idlib, northwestern Syria. The...

The Action Group For Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) documented the death of 616 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government prisons since the outburst of the bloody warfare. Updated statistics by AGPS indicate that 1,780 Palestinian refugees have been secretly held behind...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime offensive pushed 1,294,558 people in 2019 from their homes in a region of three million people, the Syria Response Coordinators group said Saturday.  The relief group sent a humanitarian plea to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,...

A Turkish aid agency provided humanitarian aid to people of Syria’s Idlib who escaped bombardments of regime and its supporters, and took shelter near the Turkish border.   The Bashar al-Assad regime continue intensified air and land attacks on civilian settlements in northwestern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Suspected pro-Iran Shiite militants have slaughtered at least 21 civilians in northeastern Raqqa, local activists said Sunday. Most of the knife-attack victims were shepherds living in Maadan, a desert area controlled by Shiite militias.    Activists...

The move is part of a controversial government policy to relocate Syrians from Turkey's largest city. Some were sent to refugee camps outside Istanbul, while NGOs claim that some were deported to conflict zones in Syria. More than 97,000 Syrians left Istanbul in 2019 as part of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least nine civilians were killed and 20 more wounded in regime air strikes on the town of Ariha in northern Idlib province, rescuing agency said Sunday.   Multiple neighbourhoods were targeted in the city, which is located in the Idlib countryside, filling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The meeting sessions of independent members from the Syrian opposition in Riyadh have ended, however, their effects did not halt, as the fear of a "vertical secession" increases, according to the statement of the head of the negotiation commission Nasr Hariri. Both...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4,671 people were arrested by the Syrian regime and other warring factions in 2019, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.    According to SNHR report , Syrian regime forces arrested at least 2,797 people, including 113 children and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 pro-Iran militants killed Friday by landmines planted by Daesh (ISIS) on a desert road links between Homs and Deir Ezzor province, local news site reported. Badyia 24 said the landmine attack took place near the town of al-Sukhnah in the eatsern countryside...

Almost nine years of civil war in Syria has left more than 380,000 people dead including over 115,000 civilians, a war monitor said in a new toll Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across the country, said they included around 22,000 children...

Turkey's decision to approve the deployment of troops to Libya risks plunging the North African nation deeper into a Syrian-style proxy war between regional powers including Russia, experts warn. Libya has been mired in conflict since a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 toppled dictator Moamer...

The United States has designated Asaib Ahl al-Haq as a terrorist organization along with two of the Iraqi Shi'ite militia group's leaders, the U.S. State Department said in a statement Friday, calling it a proxy for Iran. The group and its leaders "are violent proxies of the Islamic...

U.N. Security Council members held an intensive round of meetings Friday on the humanitarian crisis in Syria's embattled Idlib province amid calls to reauthorize urgently needed cross-border aid. Humanitarian aid currently flows into northwestern Syria - a last rebel stronghold -...

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Friday the "world cannot afford" another Gulf war, following the killing of Iran's top military commander by a U.S. strike. "The secretary-general has consistently advocated for de-escalation in the Gulf," a spokesman for Guterres said in a...