The U.S. and Turkey launched a second round of joint patrols in northeastern Syria Tuesday as part of plans to create a "safe" buffer zone, the Turkish defense ministry said. Four Turkish armored vehicles crossed the border to join U.S. forces in Syria, state news agency Anadolu said,...

More than 3,700 civilians have been killed in Syria since the U.S.-led Global Coalition against Daesh launched an anti-terror campaign in 2014, a U.K.-based human rights group said on Monday. In a report marking the fifth year of the U.S.-led campaign in Syria, the Syrian Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ibrahim Hussein al-Muheisen, who hails from the northern countryside of Daraa, was arrested in May 2011 in Sayyida Zeinab south of Damascus by the Military Security Division on charges of assisting refugees without informing the authorities. The checkpoint arrested him,...

Syria's foreign minister Walid al-Moallem discussed Monday the formation of a constitutional committee and its work with U.N. special envoy Geir Pedersen who said that "all the outstanding issues" related to it were being addressed in talks. Pedersen's visit to Syria comes a week after...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria arrived in Damascus on Sunday for fresh talks on forming a committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the war-ravaged country. Geir Pedersen was set to meet with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday to discuss the committee, the U.N.-backed...

After two years on the run with the Islamic State group, Um Mahmoud just wanted to return home. When she finally made it to Raqqa with her daughters and grandchildren, she found her home partially burned but livable. She also found a hostile city reluctant to take her back. The 53-year-old...

TEN migrants were arrested at Athens airport trying to sneak into Europe posing as a top volleyball team booked to play in a tournament. Cops say the chancers touched down in the Greek capital wearing matching tracksuits and were even carrying sports bags and balls. However, they...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Foreign presence on the Syrian soil has always been the focus of media and research institutions. In this study, prepared by a specialized military researcher, we examine the changes that occurred with the existence of these bases, since late 2017 when Zaman al-Wasl last...

A Turkish non-governmental organization on Saturday finished its six-day festival, entertaining around 10,000 Syrian children in Turkey's southern Kilis province.   The International Refugee Rights Association (UMHD) organized the Borderless Festival in the areas liberated by...

A drone was shot down on Saturday in Quneitra province in southern Syria, the second such incident in 48 hours, state media said. Authorities "dismantled a drone" after it was shot down on the edge of Jabal al-Sheikh in the Quneitra countryside, southwest of Damascus, state news agency SANA...

Turkish and U.S. armed forces conducted the sixth round of joint helicopter flights on Saturday for a planned safe zone east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, two Turkish and two American helicopters took off from Sanliurfa,...

Turkey is ready to act on its southern border with Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, after warning that it could take unilateral steps if the U.S. does not establish a "safe zone" in northeast Syria this month. "Our preparations along our borders are complete," Erdogan told...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Syrian Exporters Federation Mohamed al-Sawwah has been arrested by the Syrian regime over corruption claims, pro-government media outlets reported Saturday. The arrest followed a campaign by the regime's first lady Asma al-Assad, who vowed to track...

As conflict continues in war-torn Syria, a family living under the harsh conditions of war seeks to have a brighter future that comes with peace. While the world marks International Day of Peace on Sept. 21, a Syrian family continues to struggle for survival in tents in the rural area of...

 Syria's state news agency says authorities have captured and dismantled a drone rigged with cluster bombs near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. SANA gave no further details about the drone Saturday, but posted several photos. The incident came two days after...

Syrian opposition activists say anti-government protesters have captured at least two army checkpoints in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the protests occurred in government-held areas close to those controlled by U.S.-backed...

Doctors from Turkey’s large cities have been stationed in two southern provinces to prepare for a possible incursion into northern Syria, two security sources told Reuters on Friday, adding leave for doctors in the region had been canceled. Turkey and the United States have been working to...

Russia and China vetoed on Friday a UN Security Council resolution for a cease-fire in northwest Syria's Idlib province.  Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the document as "an attempt to take the heat off the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Democratic Union militia has waged major conscription campaign in eastern Raqqa province, arresting tens of men, mostly Arabs, activists said Friday. The mandatory conscription campaign was launched on Tuesday by the domestic security of the PYD in the town...

The number of children under five dying in the al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria has more than doubled since March, according to data from the International Rescue Committee. Figures show that child mortality at the camp, which houses women and children displaced following the fall of...