Dozens of mourners filled a church Tuesday for the funeral of an Armenian Catholic priest and his father killed by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria. Men, women dressed in black and children gathered to celebrate the lives of Joseph Hanna Ibrahim and his father in the...

At a base in eastern Syria, a senior U.S. coalition commander said Monday that American troops who remain in Syria are redeploying to bases, including in some new locations, and working with the Kurdish-led forces to keep up the pressure on the Islamic State militants and prevent the extremists...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would tell President Donald Trump that the United States has not fulfilled its agreement last month to remove the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from a region along Turkey's border. It is "impossible to say" that the "terrorists" have...

A pair of Israeli airstrikes targeted senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza and in Syria early on Tuesday, escalating Israel's confrontation with Iran across the region and threatening to unleash another devastating round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants. In eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes are still ongoing between the Syrian National Army and Kurdish forces west of Hasaka city as the Turkish-backed forces press to take the towns of Tel Tamr and Abu Rasin, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.  The Turkish artillery rocked the sites of the...

Israel killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in an airstrike in Gaza early Tuesday just hours before another attack in Damascus targeted the home of another leading Palestinian jihadist, killing his son and at least one more person. Syrian state media said Israel was responsible for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A study by Syrian researcher revealed that the marketing of hate speech through Social Media is as important as marketing any product and its impact may be stronger because the speech is faster to spread and become politicized, generating a systematic hate speech against the...

A Turkish aid agency is continuing to coordinate the distribution of food, water, personal care items, blankets, and toys to civilians in northern Syria liberated by Turkey's anti-terror operation launched last month.  Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on...

Three simultaneous bombings killed at least six civilians in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Monday, a Kurdish security source and a Britain-based monitor said. There was no immediate claim for the bombings, but they occurred shortly after the Islamic State...

The British founder of an organisation that trained the “White Helmets” emergency response group has been found dead in Istanbul, five years after the group was set up to perform rescue work in rebel areas during the Syrian civil war. The body of James Le Mesurier, founder of the Mayday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed three regime troops and wounded five others in Mont Turkmen (Jabal al-Turkman), the last opposition stronghold in coastal Latakia province, sources said Monday. The Turkish-backed rebels hit a regime army barrack with Kornet missile (a Russian...

Walid Abu Rashed walks past bombed-out buildings in war-torn northwest Syria, carrying a large wooden board and a plastic bag filled with puppets while dozens of children trail behind him. The 26 year-old's mobile puppet theatre has become a small respite from war for the children of...

At least 198 soldiers of Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) have been killed during attacks by the PKK's Syrian affiliate, the People's Protection Units (YPG), terrorists since the launch of the Ankara-led anti-terror operation in northern Syria last month. According to the SNA...

Izmir's delicious stuffed mussels, a popular Turkish street food, have become a vital source of income for Turkish, and Syrian refugee women. Some 20 women from different backgrounds, who were in search of self-employment, came together to set up a stuffed mussels production facility in...

Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian presidential election in 2021 would be open to anybody who wants to run and that there would be numerous challengers for the presidency. Assad, who made the comment in an interview broadcast Monday on Russian state-funded television channel RT, faced two...

Turkey has started the repatriation of captured Daesh militants, state broadcaster TRT Haber said Monday, after the Turkish interior minister warned last week that Ankara would do so even if the prisoners had their citizenships revoked. It was not immediately clear how many jihadists would...

The Turkish president on Sunday said 365,000 refugees have returned to their homeland in northern Syria. The Syrian refugees returned to the regions that Turkey has made safe through its anti-terror operations, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, speaking at Bestepe National Congress and Culture...

Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed seven civilians, including three children, in an anti-government bastion in northwestern Syria, a war monitor reported. Eight others were wounded in the raids and some of them are in a "critical" condition, said Rami Abdel...

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says about 500 or 600 U.S. troops will remain in Syria to counter Islamic State fighters. President Donald Trump recently approved an expanded military mission to secure oil fields across eastern Syria. His decision locked hundreds of U.S. troops...

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded Sunday in an area of northeast Syria controlled by Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies, Turkey's defense ministry and local emergency workers said. The ministry said the bombing, which it blamed on the Kurdish YPG militia, took place...