Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview aired Monday that the global chemical weapons watchdog has faked and falsified a report over an attack near the capital Damascus last year "just because the Americans wanted them to do so." Assad's comments to Italy's Rai News 24 came after...

Turkey aims to settle one million Syrian war refugees in the area of northern Syria where it carried out a military incursion in October, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. He told state broadcaster TRT that Ankara would finance the resettlement on its own if allies did not provide...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Damascus University on Monday has imposed a ban on full-face veils inside the campus of Syria’s oldest university, such a decision comes as Bashar al-Assad regime claims combating terrorisim and radicalism. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the...

Jennifer Fenton, the spokeswoman for UN Special Representative for Syria Gerd Pedersen, said the Syrian Constitutional Committee's third round of meetings will need the Bashar al-Assad regime and its opponents to agree on the agenda. "For the Committee to carry out its work under the Rules...

Two Syrian siblings have been using social media to call on the international community to help victims of war in their country. Forced by Syrian regime forces to abandon their home in the capital, Damascus, for Eastern Ghouta after the civil war erupted in 2011, Noor and Alla Elhamravi,...

Russian forces have entered Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Daesh caliphate, in one of the starkest examples yet of how Moscow has filled the vacuum created by President Donald Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria. Russian troops were shown in footage on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists and human rights advocates launched a campaign on social media denouncing the ongoing offensive in northern Syria by regime forces and Russia. #IdlibUnderFire campaign sends a new alert to the international community for what is happening in northern...

(Zaman A Wasl)-  The health sector in the border town of Ras Al Ayn has been damaged since the Turkish military operation began on October 9, sources told Zamanal-Wasl. The private hospitals are out of service due to lack of security and equipment despite the Turkish army's...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian National Army has preventing US-backed forces from entering the border town of Azaz late on Sunday, a spokesman for the Turkish-backed group told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Major. Yousef al-Hammoud said the SNA had repelled the Syrian Democratic Forces south of...

The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is set to go on trial in Paris Monday on charges of building up a property empire in France using funds from Syrian state coffers. Rifaat al-Assad, dubbed the "Butcher of Hama" for allegedly commanding troops that put down an uprising in central...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian National Army have clashed with Kurdish-led forces near Abu al-Rasain area north of Hasaka province despite the presence of Russia's monitoring posts, local activists said Sunday. The clashes between both sides in a zone between the towns of...

Christian Syrian refugees have told CBN News that they have been blocked from getting help from the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, by Muslim UN officials in Jordan. UN Response to Syrian Christians? Get Lost One of the refugees, Hasan, a Syrian convert to...

Power supply problems in an area of northern Syria recently liberated from YPG/PKK terrorists by a Turkish anti-terror operation are on the mend, said Turkey’s National Defense Ministry on Sunday.  Having largely cleared YPG/PKK elements from northern Syrian territories, the Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A drone strike by the U.S.-led coalition killed three ISIS (Daesh) fighters in the border town of Afrin in northern Syria, source told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The drone hit the vehicle of ISIS fighters with three missiles on a road links between Afrin and Azaz near the...

Syrian regime and Russian air strikes Saturday killed 19 civilians, half of them children, in the country's last major opposition bastion, a Britain-based monitor and local activists said. The air raids in the extremist-run northwest region of Idlib also wounded several others, the...

At least four civilians, including a child and two women, were killed in barrel bombs attack on al Bara village in Jabal al Zaweya region of Idlib province, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported Saturday.

Some 25,000 civilians were displaced in northwestern Syria last week after the attacks of regime and Russia on the Idlib de-escalation zone, a Syrian NGO said on Dec. 7. Mohammad Halaj, director of Syria's Response Coordination Group, told Anadolu Agency that thousands of civilians were...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian man died of wounds sustained during a kidnapping attempt in southern Sweida province, local activists said Friday.  Taher al-Aqbani, 26, was shot by gunmen who tried to kidnap him in the main stronghold of the Druze community. Death of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A source operating in the Syrian Air Defence Force told Zaman al-Wasl that the defence systems were paralysed and almost caused a disaster during the Israeli strikes last November due to Iran’s radar jamming stations. The source confirmed that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad on Thursday has appointed new police commander for Hama province after deadly clashes between security forces and pro-regime militia in the town of Salhab, local media outlets reported. Maj. Gen. Jassim al-Hamad, former director of the prison department...