Syrian regime forces started deploying Thursday in areas close to the Turkish border in the country’s northeast as part of an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey, state media reported. News agency SANA said troops were deploying between the towns of Jawadiyeh and Malkiyeh, also...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised allies Thursday that the United States would keep up the fight against the Islamic State but demanded action from them in turn, including the repatriation of thousands of jihadists from Syria. Senior officials from more than 30 countries discussed the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For a long time, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been accused of working with the regime for the discharge of oil fields products under its control, but the regime has denied this over the past years. Activists leaked several videos and pictures of tankers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Turkish-backed fighters were killed Thursday when unknown assailants opened fire on their vehicle near the border town of Afrin north of Aleppo city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Two more fighters from the Syrian National Army were killed on Wednesday in a...

Turkish police are treating as suicide the death of an ex-British Army officer who helped start Syria's White Helmets, but his wife has been banned from leaving the country, local media said Thursday. Police are analysing James Le Mesurier's hospital records where he sought help for mental...

 Tucked in a displacement camp alongside rows of olive trees, a partially destroyed bus with blown-out tires and shattered windows has provided Dunia and her four children barely enough shelter to survive the past two months. In September, Save the Children interviewed and filmed...

Russia has begun setting up a helicopter base at a civilian airport in the north-eastern Syrian city of Qamishli, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Zvezda TV channel said on Thursday, showing footage of helicopter gunships arriving there. The new base is protected by Pantsir surface-to-air...

The United States will maintain around 600 troops in Syria, Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Wednesday, despite Donald Trump's desire to end US involvement in what the president calls "endless wars". "We're still moving troops out of northeastern Syria," the US defense secretary said onboard...

Donald Trump has insisted that the US military presence in Syria is “only for the oil”, contradicting his own officials who have insisted that the remaining forces were there to fight Isis. Trump made his remarks while hosting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, just over a month after the Turkish...

The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added more than a dozen companies and individuals to its trade blacklist for allegedly providing material support to chemical and biological weapons activity in Syria and diverting U.S. items to Iran without authorization. The action from the...

The UN on Wednesday dispatched 39 trucks of humanitarian aid to the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib.  The trucks passed through the Cilvegozu border gate in southern Turkey, with aid to be distributed to residents in urban areas of the war-torn province as well as the surrounding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad, including 7 Hezbollah militants, were killed by Turkish-backed rebels in coastal latakia province, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl  Wednesday . The National Liberation Front has thwarted the fourth incursion attempt...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many Syrian refugees who left Istanbul following the security campaign that targeted those violating the conditions of residence in the city, were asked by Eqtsad news site if living in the Turkis city was better than their current place of residence. Fadi Al-Serafi who...

The Turkish interior minister says Turkey has captured an "important" figure within the Islamic State group in Syria. Suleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that the suspect is still being interrogated but did not name the figure or provide further details. Turkey has said it captured and...

Turkey’s military incursion in Syria has given President Tayyip Erdogan a bump in opinion polls and exposed potential cracks in an informal political alliance that claimed surprise victories over his ruling party in local elections this year. The operation in northeast Syria came after...

A Hungarian court on Wednesday began the trial of a Syrian man accused of terrorism and crimes against humanity as a military leader of Islamic State near the city of Homs in 2015, saying he participated in the murders of dozens of people. The 27 year-old, identified as F. Hassan, was...

Turkish forces conducting a joint patrol in northern Syria under a Russian-Turkish deal fired live rounds on Tuesday at protesters near the mainly Kurdish town of Kobani, a witness and a monitor said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said two people were...

Four civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes on residential areas in the de-escalation zone of Idlib, Syria, the Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets said on Tuesday. The agency stated that four people were killed and another 10 injured in the town of Kafar Roma and the...

Five Syrian torture survivors living in Norway have filed legal complaints against senior officials of the Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) announced on Tuesday. “Trials and investigations in Europe can pave the way to end impunity...

Russia accused the U.S. on Tuesday of attempting to separate Syria from its oil-rich regions. Speaking at the second Paris Peace Forum in the French capital, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged that Washington pushed Gulf countries to finance the creation of a quasi-state, based on the...