PARIS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of the Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Committee stressed on the importance of the "political process" in a meeting with Syrians abroad held in Paris last Monday.  The revolution is not only ‘military battles’, said a member of the...

A German chemical wholesaler, Brenntag, has denied circumventing EU export rules on restricted chemicals, some of which were delivered to Syria in 2014. A Swiss subsidiary of Brenntag supplied isopropanol and diethylamine to Syria. They can be used in pharmaceuticals, but can also be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five years ago, 17 children from the same family lost their parents following a major night raid by the Islamic State (Daesh) in the town of Hatla in Deir Ezzor province, one of the terrifying nights where dozens killed and arrested by the radical group. That night, 200...

Two rescuers were among eight civilians killed in Russian and regime air strikes Wednesday on violence-plagued northwest Syria, a war monitor said, in the latest attack against relief workers in the region. The two civil defence workers, known as the White Helmets, were killed after Russian...

The UN aid chief said Tuesday he had asked Russia to explain how it uses data on the location of Syrian hospitals and clinics following a string of attacks on health facilities. Mark Lowcock, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council he was "not sure"...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he believed the number of Syrians returning from Turkey to their homeland will reach one million once a safe zone is established in northeast Syria along their shared border. Turkey hosts nearly 4 million Syrians - the largest number in any one...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists and opposition media have accused Iran-backed militias of looting antiquities of the historic cities of Aleppo and Palmyra. The SY24 news site said that an Iranian organization is excavating archaeological in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo...

For years, Abu Ali sold used furniture and home appliances for a living. But he never thought Syria's war would one day make him homeless and force him to sell his own. His family is one of dozens stranded in olive groves along the Turkish border, who say they have had to sell their basic...

The regime of Bashar Assad attacked Syria's opposition-held Idlib province on Sunday night, using banned white phosphorus bombs. Footage obtained by Daily Sabah allegedly shows the regime dropping 18 phosphorus bombs on the town of Khan Shaykhun in southern Idlib. The attacks were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A tribal clashe broke out two weeks ago after an attack by the US-backed forces and allied tribesmen on the Albufrio tribe in Khabur region north of Deir Ezzor province. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an attack on Al-Nimaliyah and Abu Al-Naitel villages,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Behind the bars of Roumieh, the notorious Lebanese prison, and inside a cell Bock B, dwells Abdul Razzaq al-Adam, a Syrian disabled detainee, for more than two years without trial and without an attorney. Despite his disability, the Lebanese authorities have detained him, a...

(Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria)- Palestinian ex-prisoner Ahmad Khamis who had been released from Israeli jails as part of an Israel-Russian swap deal was re-arrested by Syrian security forces. Informed sources told AGPS that Khamis has been subjected to exhaustive interrogation...

The Islamic State group may have lost its "caliphate", but three months later, experts have warned the jihadists are still attacking fighters and fields in Syria to show they remain relevant. The Syrian Democratic Forces announced they had expelled the extremists from their last patch of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The unstable security condition in southern Daraa province has been leading to critical events due to the regime’s revenge policy despite reconciliation deals. Local activists say the frustration is mounting due to the regime’s security policies of arbitrary arrest and...

Five underwater pipelines have been damaged and put out of order after a sabotage attack off the coastal town of Banias, Syria's oil ministry said Sunday. The damage was discovered after divers checked to see what was behind an oil leakage, the ministry said. The ministry gave no...

The Syrian war has inflicted all kinds of hardships on Najwa Abdelaziz but she still manages to make light of one of them. "The uprising ruined my teeth," she jokes while getting dental care for the first time in years in the back of a truck. The 33-year-old could not find help for her...

 Syrian regime air strikes killed five civilians including two children Sunday in a northwestern bastion of the opposition, a war monitor said. The Idlib region of some three million people is supposed to be protected by a September buffer zone deal, but the jihadist-run enclave has...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research urged Syrian refugees and activists live in Europe to report about former pro-Bashar al-Assad’s fighters who involved in crimes against the Syrian people to not escape justice.   The Berlin-based advocacy center...

Syrian regime air strikes on the rebel-held northwest killed four civilians, two of them children, on Saturday, a war monitor said, as a two-month flare-up showed no let-up. The Idlib region of some three million people is supposed to be protected by a September buffer zone deal, but the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source in the Syrian Air Force said at least seven military airbases are invloved in the all-out regime assault on northwestern Syria that so far has killed 400 civilians and has displaced more than 330,000. The source has provided Zaman al-Wasl...