(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass grave was exhumed Tuesday from a school in Raqqa city, the First Response Team of Raqqa Local Council said. Yaser al-Khamis, head of the team said thirteen bodies were recovered from a school in the Badu (Bedouins) neighborhood in Raqqa city, saying the grave is...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group has arrested an orthopaedic surgeon after being chased, shot on his foot, beaten and insulted for hours, Free Doctors Syndicate in northern Idlib province said Wednesday.  Dr. Othman al-Hassan, who works in the Bab...

A senior Syrian Kurdish official says the creation of a so-called "safe zone" in northeastern Syria is off to good start, with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces pulling back from an initial part of the border with Turkey. But she says calm can only prevail if Turkey also removes its troops....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 troops from the coastal Tartus province killed in August by rebels and jihadist Tahrir al-Sham group in northwestern Syria, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included 8 officers. Most slain troops were killed in the northern countryside...

Explosions heard on Tuesday in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia were a result of anti-aircraft defenses intercepting drones launched toward Hmeimim air base, Syrian state TV and the state news agency (SANA) reported. State media said militants had launched the drones toward the air base...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that a de-escalation zone in Syria's embattled Idlib region is slowly disappearing and is currently nothing more than a name. Speaking in Ankara, Erdogan also said it was not possible to stay silent ono military attacks on Idlib town and...

At least one civilian was killed and more than 16 wounded Tuesday by two bombs hidden in motorbikes in the Syrian border town of Azaz, which is controlled by Turkey-backed rebels, two witnesses and a security source said. They said the first booby-trapped motorbike exploded at a busy...

 Hungarian prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged a 27-year-old Syrian man with terrorism and crimes against humanity committed as a member of Daesh in 2015. The man, identified only as F. Hassan, was charged with beheading and shooting people who refused to join the jihadist...

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented at least 569 cases of arbitrary arrests in August, including 362 cases of enforced disappearance.    All warring parties have carried arbitrary arrests, according to London-based monitoring group.   269 people...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge fire broke out in a refugee camp in northern Aleppo province, destroying 35 makeshift tents and wounding four displaced, Civil Defense agency reported. The fire was due to burning biled rubbish in the Albil camp near Soran town in the northern countryside...

 The Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 blacklisted by the United States has been off the coast of Lebanon and Syria for the past 24 hours, maritime monitors said on Monday. The vessel has been zigzagging in the eastern Mediterranean since it was released from the British overseas territory...

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has reported today that at least three Syrians deported by the Lebanese authorities have already been arrested by the Syrian regime upon their return to their home country. Between 21 May and 28 August, said the rights watchdog, 2,731 Syrians were deported...

Lawyers for a Syrian accused of war crimes in the Netherlands for allegedly participating in an execution during the country’s civil war denied on Monday that their client was a member of the radical Nusra Front. Ahmad al Khedr, also known as Abu Khuder, faces charges of murder and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A fire broke out in the Hol camp northeastern Syria on Saturday, leaving nine dicplaced wounded, mostly women and children, local acivists said. Malaz al-Yousef told Zaman al-Wasl that three women and four children were wounded due to the fire that...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- Interview)- The head of the Syrian Civil Defense accused Russia of targeting the members of the rescuing group in order to eliminate witnesses of its crimes in Syria, and then downplay the importance of the evidence provided by the humanitarian organization about those...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad have executed an old woman refused to leave her house in the newly-captured town of Khan Sheikhoun. Maryam al-Shalat was summarily executed on Sunday by regime militias, according to activists who circulated her photo...

At least 267 Civilians were documented killed in August, in addition to 25 detainees died of torture, a Syrian monitoring group said Sunday. The 28-page report  by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the deaths of 267 civilians in August, including 72...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed in northwestern Idlib region by regime forces despite a Russian-backed ceasefire went into effect on Saturday following four months of deadly bombardment, local activists said Sunday. The regime bombarment targeted 14 towns and villages in Idlib...

 An Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. across the Mediterranean Sea slowed to a near-stop Sunday off the coast of Syria, where America's top diplomat alleges it will be unloaded despite denials from Tehran. The ongoing saga of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1,...

Russia accused the United States Sunday of having "compromised" a fragile ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib by launching a missile strike against jihadist leaders there. The Americans hit the region "without advance notice to Russia or Turkey", which both have troops on the ground...