US Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie on Monday visited Kurdish-led allies in northeast Syria for the first time since taking up the post. McKenzie -- who oversees US operations in the Middle East -- took over from his predecessor General Joseph Votel in late March. Just...

Turkey, home to the largest refugee population in the world, announced measures on Monday to limit the number of Syrian migrants in its largest city, Istanbul. The governor’s office in Istanbul ordered Syrian refugees initially registered in other cities to return there by Aug. 20 or...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that if a planned safe zone in northern Syria is not established, and if threats continue against Turkey, a military operation will be launched east of the Euphrates river. Turkey has been in talks with the United States over the...

Pope Francis's envoy told Syrian President Bashar Assad in a meeting Monday of the Pope's concerns for the humanitarian situation in northwest Syria, a Vatican spokesperson said in a statement. Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson gave Assad a letter in which the pontiff expressed "deep...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian airstrike on a market in northwest Syria killed 28 civilians Monday, an activist group said, in the latest violence to plague the country's last major opposition bastion. At least 100 other people were wounded in the raid that hit "a wholesale vegetable market...

Syrian air defenses on Sunday thwarted hostile fire in the northwestern city of Masyaf in Hama Governorate, state TV reported. It said explosions heard in Masyaf were a result of shells launched by rebel groups in the western countryside of Hama.

Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, who risked drowning at sea while fleeing her war-torn country four years ago, heaved a deep sigh after failing to set a personal best at the world swimming championships Sunday.  Representing international federation FINA’s independent athletes team, the...

Syria's transport ministry said a freight train carrying phosphate derailed and caught fire Sunday after getting hit by explosives planted on the tracks by 'militants' in the country's center. The regime-owned train was transporting phosphate from mines in Khunayfis in Homs province,...

Qatar Charity recently launched a community center in Kogali, Turkey, to provide protection services to Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens at an estimated cost of $ 750,000 and is expected to benefit 14 thousand people. This came as part of the “QUEST 's initiative” which was launched...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior rebel commander warned political parties of participating in planned Astana 13 conference in August, saying it is "a new Russian trick." Col. Mustafa al-Bakkour, commander in Jaysh al-Izza told Zaman al-Wasl that the Russian-backed offensive on northwestern...

  Syrian first responders and activists say regime bombing of the last rebel stronghold in the country has killed at least 11 civilians, as the nearly four-month offensive shows no sign of abating. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says six people were killed,...

German NGO Skate Aid has built a skate park in Damascus, so children can learn the sport and perhaps one day become professional. Skateboarding will make its debut as an Olympic sport next year in Tokyo. And the path to Olympic glory has just been made easier for a group of displaced...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has discussed by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the Russian S-400 missile defence system and the U.S. F-35 fighter jet programme, a foreign ministry source said on Saturday. The source did not say when the conversation took...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammed Eyad, former Syrian detainee, has unveiled with a heavy heart the details of his suffering in the Air Force Intelligence prison in the capital, where he had been held for four years between 2012-2016. “They were very painful years,” says Mohammed, who preferred...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces launched major aerial offensive on the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun, carrying out more than 13 raids, senior Civil Defense worker said Saturday.   The regime's fighter jets and helicopters have used barrel and cluster bombs that left...

Mohammad al-Naeemi had everything he could possibly want living in exile in Germany, but he returned to war-torn Syria anyway to fight President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Clutching a rifle to his chest, his back flat against the ground, the 23-year-old shimmies across a dry field in...

Syrian activists and their supporters around the world have been on a rolling hunger strike to protest the Assad regime and Russia's continuing assault on the Idlib province, which has left hundreds of people dead and displaced over 350,000 people since it began in April 2019. The...

A senior UN adviser on Friday voiced concern over the ongoing violence in northwestern Syria, decrying a distressing rise. "An alarming intensification of daily violence continues in northwestern Syria. At least 350 civilians are reported to have been killed in recent hostilities in the...

Russia on Thursday opposed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an end to attacks on health facilities in Syria's Idlib region, diplomats said after the latest meeting over violence in the country's last major opposition bastion. The outcome led to a rare statement...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees' defender and Human Rights advocate Tariq Shandab filed a complaint with the Special Public Prosecutor against the Lebanese judicial police, which handed over four Syrian refugees in Lebanon last week. Lawyer Shandab requested investigations for the...