(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese lawyer has uncovered a judicial scandal that took place in the palace of justice in Zahle town. The disappearance of the judicial file of the case of his client, the Syrian army defector Mohamed Nassif, in order to conceal the case in which five members of Hezbollah...

Since the Syrian civil war began, and as millions were internally displaced or fled the country, Lebanon has felt the effect. Approximately 1.5 million Syrians reside in Lebanon, which has a population of 6 million. The situation is the responsibility of Lebanon’s government, one it does...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian Military Police patrol was rocked Saturday by an improvised explosive device (IED) in the southern province of Daraa, such an attack sparks fears of the revival of the armed opposition, activists said. The IED was set off near the town of Busra al-Sham east of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that Turkey was preparing a series of policy changes regarding the country’s Syrian refugees, including the deportation of criminals and ending free healthcare services. “We are preparing to take new steps. We are going to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained the July's promotion list of 25 Brigadiers in the Syrian Air Force. Most of the top officers operate as military pilots who carried out deadly air strikes on the opposition areas during over the eight-year-old conflict that claimed the lives...

Two months of intensive airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, coupled with a fierce ground assault on rebel-controlled Idlib province, have killed hundreds of people and caused massive displacement while achieving little to no gain for President Bashar Assad....

 Syrian rescuers and activists say 11 civilians, including two families of four, have been killed in regime and Russian airstrikes inside Syria's last rebel stronghold. First responders known as White Helmets said airstrikes in Kfarya village Saturday killed a mother, her baby and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia in July has finished the construction of a military settlement in coastal Latakia province, such a move to be followed by other settlements since the Russian military presence had been agreed for half a century in the war-torn country. A military...

Iran-backed Hezbollah has reduced its forces in Syria as fighting died down though it still has fighters all over the country, its leader said on Friday. The heavily armed Lebanese Shi'ite movement has played a vital role in the war next door, helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...

Germany strongly condemned the Syrian regime and its allies on Friday for their recent airstrikes in the country's northwest that have killed and injured dozens of civilians.   A Foreign Ministry statement said at least three medical facilities funded by Germany were targeted in...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday discussions would "continue" over the composition of a body to draw up a post-war constitution for the country. Meeting with Russian envoy Alexander Lavrentiev, the president discussed ongoing efforts towards "creating a committee to discuss the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten civilians, including three children, were killed and 45 more wounded in fresh regime air strikes on the northwestern province of Idlib, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The aerial bombing targeted the town of Maa'rret al-Nu'man in the...

Germany must repatriate from Syria the German wife and three children of an ISIL fighter, a court ordered on Thursday in the first such ruling against the government. Like other Western countries, Germany faces a dilemma of how to deal with citizens who went to the Middle East to join armed...

Over 100 fighters were killed in clashes Thursday between regime and militant-led forces in northwest Syria, as violence raged on the edge of an opposition bastion despite a September truce deal. In nearby Afrin, a car bombing killed 13 people in the latest violence to hit the city that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seba al-Obeid, Syrian refugee girl lives in the Azraq camp is about to be deported as the Jordanian authorities give her one month notice to leave the kingdom with brother Abdullah. The decision came a few days after the Austrian government agreed for her family reunion...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At last 11 civilians were wounded in car bomb blast in northeastern  Hasaka province, State-run news agency reported  Thursday . The attack took place near the church of the Virgin Mary in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, according to SANA. ...

Saudi Arabia's military in Yemen has moved in to secure two strategic Red Sea ports and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait after its leading ally the United Arab Emirates substantially reduced its presence there, four sources familiar with the matter said. The UAE has drawn down its numbers in...

BEIRUT: A car bomb near a checkpoint manned by Turkey-backed rebels in the northern Syrian city of Afrin killed 13 people including eight civilians Thursday, a war monitor said. Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies took control of Afrin from Kurdish forces in March last year after a...

A new batch of Syrian refugees returned to their home country Thursday from various areas in Lebanon, in the latest voluntary return organized by General Security. Some 59 people gathered in Nabatieh before being taken by two buses across the Syrian border, the state-run National News...

Regime and Tahri Al Sham-led forces were locked in clashes Thursday on the edge of an opposition bastion in northwest Syria after an extremist-led advance that killed 56 fighters overnight, a war monitor said. Russian and regime aircraft have ramped up their deadly bombardment of the...