Greece will not provide assistance in delivering oil to Syria to an Iranian tanker now sailing eastward through the Mediterranean, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said Wednesday. "We have sent a clear message that we would not want to facilitate the trafficking of this oil to...

Syrian opposition activists say airstrikes have hit a hospital in a rebel-held northwestern village, knocking it out of service. There was no immediate word on casualties. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Thiqa news agency, an activist collective, said the...

Turkey has extended to Oct. 30 its deadline for Syrian migrants not registered in Istanbul to leave the city or face forced removal, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Tuesday. Istanbul’s governor said last month that Syrians who had registered in other provinces of Turkey must return...

Removing barriers to integration should be the main focus of Turkey’s policy towards refugees, according to an expert on the issue. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Basak Yavcan, vice chair of the Center for Social Policy Research of Turkey's TOBB University, evaluated sociocultural...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- It’s been six years since the Syrian regime struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin the Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, leaving 1127 people, mostly women and children, killed.  The UN investigation team confirmed "clear and convincing...

The main rebel group in the Syrian province of Idlib pulled out of a key rebel town as regime forces advanced in the area on Tuesday amid intense bombardment and airstrikes, opposition activists said. As the militants withdrew, regime troops moved into northern and western...

Turkey will not move the military observation post in northwest Syria that a convoy was trying to reach when it came under attack, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. An air strike on the Turkish military convoy Monday killed three civilians as it was heading south towards the...

China's envoy said Tuesday that there was a danger of Daesh (ISIS) forces reviving in Syria and called for progress in the political process between the Assad government and opposition. "There is now a danger of terrorist organizations like Islamic State being revived, we see some signs ......

A South African photojournalist being held captive in Darkoush, Syria made a desperate appeal to the South African government and international community late Monday to help secure his release from gunmen who are demanding $1.5 million in ransom.  Shiraaz Mohamed, who was kidnapped in...

In a schoolyard of rural northeastern Syria, boys and girls break out into giggles watching Charlie Chaplin's pranks, a rare treat thanks to a mobile cinema roving through the countryside. In Kurdish-held areas of the northeast, filmmaker Shero Hinde is screening films in remote villages...

Jihadists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed an offensive against the jihadist-run Idlib region, a war monitor said. The fighters pulled back from the town of Khan Sheikun and the countryside to its south...

Turkey said a regime airstrike on a Turkish military convoy in northwest Syria killed three civilians and wounded 12 Monday as Syrian troops advanced on rebels in a key town. The airstrikes hit near the convoy that was approaching frontlines in Idlib province, two Turkey-backed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The students’ moments of fun in a classroom belonging to the ruling party turned into a session of torture and abuse after the ball with which they played smashed the picture of the regime, “For Absurdism, Oh Vanguards” revolves around this image.  While the title...

Despite ongoing conflict and challenges in their home country, two Syrian mothers living in Turkey's capital of Ankara were able to maintain their family and have children thanks to the country's superb health conditions. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Mona Al-Masri, a 45-year-old...

Airstrikes halted a Turkish military convoy carrying ammunition after it crossed into northern Syria on Monday, bound for a rebel-held stronghold, opposition activists said. The strikes hit near the highway where the convoy was moving, the activists added. It was not immediately...

In the years before Syria's war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their wooden vessels along the Mediterranean coast down to Lebanon and up to Turkey, but the trade has withered. The tiny island is one of the few places in Syria physically untouched by eight years of conflict, its only...

Damascus on Monday condemned the deployment of a Turkish military convoy towards a key town in northwestern Syria where regime forces are waging fierce battles with jihadists and rebels. "Turkish vehicles loaded with munitions... are heading towards Khan Sheikhun to help the terrorists......

 A 17-year-old student who arrived in Ireland from Syria four years ago with only basic English skills has scored more than 600 points in her Leaving Cert. Nour Aljarad, who claimed asylum in Ireland in 2015 with her family, has secured a place to study dentistry at Trinity College...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- War, with all its cruelty and ugliness, could not steal the beauty, innocence and wonder of the six-year-old girl, Sana'a, despite suffering a life of poverty and asylum. Her photos spread on social media and the world's leading magazines and newspapers in less than two days....

Pro-regime forces were locked in heavy fighting with insurgents Sunday near a militant-run town in northwestern Syria, leaving dozens of combatants dead, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "fierce clashes" between loyalist forces, militants and allied...