(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohamed Sweidan, a displaced teacher, had no choice but to use the shade of the olive trees in the Idlib countryside to teach the children. Sweidan, 34, fleeing the regime bombardment  moved with his wife to an olive grove in the town of Atma on the...

A well-informed  source told Zaman al-Wasl that at the Syrian Defense Ministry provided lists of 185,000 soldiers with permanent disabilities as a result of their injuries during the regime's military actions against the Syrian people. The source, who preferred to remain unnamed for...

A UN inquiry into a series of regime and Russian attacks on UN-supported facilities in northwestern Syria's Idlib province will begin this month’s end, the international body announced Friday.  Secretary-General Antonio Guterres initiated the review at the behest of the ambassadors...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Artillery fire by the Syrian regime has damaged a hospital in northwestern province of Idlib, despite a ceasefire that had halted a fierce army offensive against the rebel stronghold two weeks ago, local activists said Friday. No casualties reported in the attack...

The Turkish, Iranian and Russian presidents will meet in Ankara Monday to discuss Syria and the last rebel enclave in Idlib. Syrian regime forces are threatening to overrun Idlib, and Ankara is warning of a humanitarian disaster. The three-way summit is being held under the auspices of...

At least 25 civilians were injured on Friday in a car bomb attack in Syria's northwestern city of Afrin. An explosive-laden vehicle went off in a crowded place in the center of the city. Teams of Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets rushed to the area and transferred the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 375 displaced, mostly women and children, have left the Kurdish-run al-Arisha camp in the northeastern province of Hasaka, heading their hometowns in Deir Ezzor province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Local sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that a convoy...

American Muslim cleric Hamza Yusuf has caused outrage after a YouTube video in which he mocked the plight of Syrian refugees emerged this week. In a three and a half minute video posted on Monday  entitled "We Have Humiliated Ourselves", Yusuf mentioned one of the early slogans of...

Air strikes pounded the south of Syria's Idlib region Thursday, a rebel official and residents said, despite a ceasefire that had halted a fierce army offensive against the rebel stronghold two weeks ago. Regime warplanes bombed the south Idlib countryside for the first time since,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The 10-year-old Shatha Sabra was able to master the Turkish language brilliantly, creating a YouTube channel to teach Syrian children in Turkey the language. Sabra fled Syria with her family to escape Assad's terror to Lebanon in 2014 and then to Turkey. After...

In August, some 3,000 Syrians returned to areas of their home country cleared of terrorist groups by cross-border Turkish military operations. Taking refuge in Turkey as civil war gripped Syria, they were able to return after applying to a voluntary return program. The Turkish migration...

The Turkish and U.S. armed forces on Thursday started their fourth joint helicopter flight for a planned safe zone east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. Two Turkish helicopters and two U.S. choppers took off from Akcakale in Sanliurfa, southeastern Turkey, where the two countries’...

The market at al-Hol camp is a sea of unidentifiable figures clad in black, clutching their children's grubby hands as they drag them past those haggling their wares. A CNN team approaches a group of Iraqi women. Our request to talk to them sparks debate. "Sisters, don't say anything," one...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Maghaweir al-Thowra thwarted an attack by the regime army and allied militias in a desert area east of Homs province, leaving dozen killed and wounded, the rebel group said Wednesday. The US-backed Maghaweir al-Thowra group said the attack took place in a de-escalation...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham arrested local journalist who had interviewed senior commander criticized the former al-Qaeda affiliate for not defending its territory in northwestern Syria and for the 'impoverishment' of its fighters, activists said Wednesday. The...

Air strikes by U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria have killed or wounded many civilians, indicating that required precautions were ignored and war crimes may have been committed, United Nations investigators said on Wednesday. Syrian government and allied Russian warplanes are also...

Damascus on Wednesday condemned a vow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex part of the occupied West Bank if re-elected, accusing him expansionism. Netanyahu on Tuesday issued a deeply controversial pledge to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley if he wins the...

Russian air strikes on northwest Syria killed an elderly man overnight, the first such casualty since Moscow declared a ceasefire in the jihadist-run region on August 31, a war monitor said. The truce, which brought a halt to four months of devastating bombardment by the government and its...

Seven years after fleeing the civil war in his homeland, Zahir Hamshari's life is filled with questions and doubts: How to pay the rent? How to cover the electricity bill? How to afford even basic staples like bread and bottled water? But one thing is crystal clear for him. Like many Syrian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Monday that about 3000 people, including 631 children and 172 women,  are still detained or forcibly disappeared by the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The nine-page report reveals that the SDF are attempting...