The EU on Thursday welcomed the announcement of agreement on the formation of a Syrian constitutional committee. "The EU has consistently affirmed that any sustainable solution to the conflict requires a genuine political transition as outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2254 (2015)...

A Syrian film-maker whose documentary on the siege of Aleppo brought a Cannes audience to tears has said she wants to show the world the reality of her country. Waad al-Kateab's powerful and intimate film "For Sama" is a love letter to her infant daughter, documenting the desperate...

Syrian-Lebanese economist Rouba Mhaissen won Norway's Rafto Prize on Thursday for her work defending the rights of refugees and migrants, the Rafto Foundation said. Mhaissen, 31, is the founder and director of SDAID, an organisation that has since 2011 helped Syrians displaced by the war in...

Tunnels run for hundreds of metres, connecting caves strewn with mattresses that formed what the Syrian army and its Russian allies say was a vast rebel underground network. The road leading to the entrance of the tunnels in Lataminah in northwestern Syria is lined with the charred shells...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since entering and occupying Syria in September 2015, the Russians have established dozens of military bases, which Syrian forces are prohibited from entering or approaching unless ordered and authorized by them. These large bases are not limited to Hmeimim and...

Canada has revoked its approval of a diplomat in Montreal who is a supporter of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday. Freeland previously came out strongly against Waseem Ramli's appointment to the position of Syrian honorary consul and...

Some 6,000 displaced Palestinian families seeking refuge in Qudsaya town, in Rif Dimashq, after they were displaced from Yarmouk and southern Damascus towns, have launched cries for help over their exacerbated humanitarian situation due to the price hike, high unemployment rates, steep rental...

Zaman al-Wasl was able to uncover one of the most insidious amnesties issued by Bashar al-Assad that extorts tens of thousands of Syrians who used to be employees that left the country "illegally", for fear of being killed, arrested or forced into the regime's army. Al-Assad issued an...

Wearing clean bullet-proof vests and knee pads, fighters from a new regime amy battalion showcase the skills they have learned from Russia's military advisers. In the countryside west of Damascus, the soldiers carry out a mock assault, fire mortar rounds and rockets, perform...

The creation of a UN-backed constitution-writing committee for Syria does not mean the country is ending its military operations, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Tuesday. The United Nations on Monday announced the long-awaited formation of the committee which will include the government...

As dozens of heads of state convene for the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, the lingering conflict in Syria is taking a back seat while tensions in the Persian Gulf and global trade wars take center stage. Now in its ninth year, many Syrians fear the unresolved war has...

Canada’s foreign minister has condemned her own government’s approval of a known supporter of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad to a consular post in Canada, and said she would look into the matter. Canada, along with several other countries, cut diplomatic ties with Syria in 2012 in...

A peace corridor on Turkey's Syria border will enable the resettlement of 3 million Syrians from Turkey, Europe and other countries if it is extended to the Deir ez zor-Raqqa line, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Erdogan...

Turkey's Defense Ministry says troops have completed their second joint ground patrol with the United States in northeastern Syria. The ministry announced the patrol east of the Euphrates River on Twitter on Tuesday and posted photographs of armored vehicles with Turkish flags. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Anger sparked in the southern Sweida province over death reports of two Druze detainees in the Security chambers, local news site said Tuesday. Raslan Bu Sa'ab (39) and his brother Sari (33) were fighting along with the Free Syrian Army until 2018. But when the...

Two Turkish warplanes flew east of the Euphrates in Syria on Tuesday as part of the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Ministry said. The Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) was launched by more than 70 countries in June 2014 to eliminate the...

At least five civilians were killed and 11 injured on Tuesday in a possible YPG/PKK terrorist attack in northwestern Syria. The attack came though a car bomb explosion in a crowded area of Jinderes in the city of Afrin. The blast also caused material damage.  Local security...

(AGPS)- A Palestinian child who lived in Syria’s Yarmouk Camp before he fled to Beirut’s Burj AlBarajneh refugee camp sustained second-degree burns all over 35% of his body and called for urgent treatment at local hospitals. Activists quoted the child as appealing to the concerned...

(AGPS)- A Palestinian refugee from Syria’s Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, was pronounced dead as a result of fatal torture in Syrian government prisons, where a total of 608 Palestinian refugees have also been tortured to death. Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria has kept the...

(AGPS)- As the migrant influx from Syria and Turkey to Greece has reached a zenith, more than 250 Palestinian refugees have landed on Greek islands in August and September. Reporting from Greece, an AGPS news correspondent said the refugees disembarked on the Aegean islands of Samos,...