At least 40 jihadist leaders were killed Saturday after a missile attack targeted their meeting in northwestern Syria, hours after a Russian-backed ceasefire came into effect, a war monitor said. The missiles targeted leaders of jihadist groups and allied factions near the city of...

Turkey will launch its own operation to establish a "safe zone" in Syria if talks with the United States fail to give Turkish troops control of the area within a few weeks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. Washington and Ankara have been at odds over plans for the region in...

Air strikes on Syria's northwestern Idlib region stopped on Saturday after a Russian-backed ceasefire went into effect following four months of deadly bombardment, a war monitor said. "There are no warplanes in the sky and air strikes have stopped" said Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of...

The families of tens of thousands of people who have been forcibly disappeared or abducted since the onset of the crisis in Syria in 2011 have suffered years of agony in the face of government denials and insufficient support from the international community, Amnesty International said...

Turkish authorities reported a seven-fold jump in the number of migrants attempting the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece in August. This month to Aug. 28, 7,834 migrants and refugees were intercepted at sea, according to the Turkish Coast Guard. That compares to 1,311...

Companies from the United Arab Emirates are taking part in the Damascus International Trade Fair, state media has said, months after their embassy reopened in the Syrian capital. On Wednesday, a delegation of around 40 businessmen from the UAE arrived in Damascus "to take part in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian student outperformed her Turkish peers after graduating from two universities with honors, the Turkish Sabah newspaper reported. Roba Abousaleh, who came to Mersin city with her family years ago fleeing the Syrian war, has graduated from two universities with...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four policemen were killed Thursday when an armed group opened fire on their vehicle in southern Daraa province, state-run media reported.  No rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack that took place near the town of Muzayrib. More than...

The Swedish Migration Agency will no longer issue residence permits to all refugees coming from Syria, ending a generous policy which over the last six years has seen over 100,000 Syrians granted asylum in the country. In September 2013, Sweden was the first country in the world to open its...

The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would call for a truce in northwestern Syria “to avoid a further deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation,” though diplomats said on Thursday that such a move is likely to face opposition from...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria says he's "quietly hopeful" the U.N. can announce an agreement to launch a constitutional committee before world leaders gather in late September, a step which could lead to a political solution to end the eight-year conflict. Geir Pedersen told the Security...

Russian-backed regime forces seized several towns and villages in northwest Syria Thursday, as deadly air strikes hit the jihadist-held bastion, a monitor said. Seven civilians died in air strikes in the south of the bastion, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after regime...

Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria (AGPS) documented the death of 311 Palestinian refugees after they were gunned down by snipers in the war-ravaged Syrian territories, mostly in Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus. Up to 3,989 Palestinian refugees have been pronounced dead in the...

 Lebanese General Security Thursday returned 787 Syrian refugees to their home country, a statement from the agency said. Syrians who had registered with General Security saying that they wished to return home gathered at meeting points across the country at 6 a.m. Thursday...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Turkey would not allow the US to delay the establishment of a 'safe zone' in northern Syria, in comments published on Thursday. Ankara and Washington earlier this month agreed after difficult talks to set up a buffer zone between the Turkish border and...

 Fierce fighting broke out between the powerful YPG militia and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Wednesday when the Kurdish militants tried to move into al-Bab town near the Turkish border, Anadolu Agency reported. The fighting occurred in the evening as the 'Kurdish People's...

At least 13 civilians, including a mother with her four children, were killed in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwest Syria, when the regime and Russian airstrikes hit the region, according to local sources on Wednesday. Assad regime’s airstrikes at Maarret al-Numan town killed...

Air raids hit near a Turkish military post in northwest Syria Wednesday, a war monitor said, after Ankara vowed to take necessary steps to protect its troops deployed across the border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes fired at areas surrounding a Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohieddin Saho, a Syrian refugee who were at risk of deportation from Germany, has received church asylum in the city of Rothenburg after the German authorities decided to deport him to Spain, it being the first European country he entered. The first attempt to deport...

Fresh Syrian regime airstrikes killed six civilians on Tuesday in Idlib de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, according to opposition sources. According to the information by aircraft observatory of the Syrian opposition, Bashar al-Assad regime warplanes hit Kafranbil district,...