The U.K. will act “appropriately” if Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria uses chemical weapons, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday. Speaking at the House of Commons in a weekly question session with lawmakers, May said the U.K. previously “acted with France and the US when we saw...

A British-based war monitor said Wednesday it had no evidence to suggest the Syrian army had carried out a new chemical attack despite Washington's announcement it had suspicions. "We have no proof at all of the attack," Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

Turkey will not evacuate its military observation post in northern Syria's Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in the region, after a suspected Syrian government attack this month, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said. Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency has said that Syrian government...

Air strikes by Damascus or its ally Moscow killed 12 civilians in a market in Syria's Idlib province, a monitor said Wednesday, as fierce fighting raged for the jihadist-held northwestern region. Another 18 people were wounded when the warplanes hit the jihadist-held town of Maarat al-Numan...

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday issued a warning to the Bashar al-Assad regime on suspicion it could be conducting a new chemical weapons attack in northwest Syria. "Unfortunately, we continue to see signs that the Assad regime may be renewing its use of chemical weapons, including an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- From the central city of Homs to a forgotten camp  on the Greek-Albanian border, a long journey fraught with dangers and pain, where Mohamed Al-Mohamed fought his pain and injuries, that he got in and out of the besieged Homs years ago and made him disabled. At the...

In Syrian opposition areas retaken by regime forces, Bashar al-Assad's intelligence branches are arbitrarily detaining former rebel fighters - and even their family members - after they signed so-called "reconciliation agreements" with the government. Human Rights Watch released a...

Ali al-Ahmed and his family fled on foot through the fields when the bombs began raining down on their house in northwestern Syria, escaping a major offensive by the Syrian army and its Russian allies. “In the early hours of the morning, the artillery stopped. Then the warplanes and...

Dutch police Tuesday arrested a Syrian asylum seeker suspected of committing war crimes as a commander of Nusra Front (now Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham), prosecutors said. The 47-year-old man, identified only by his nom de guerre Abu Khuder, was detained in Kapelle in the southwestern Netherlands,...

Abu Anas al-Hijazi scanned the stalls in the Syrian capital's Bab Srija market but bought nothing. For the cash-strapped 45-year-old wedding singer, this Ramadan is a frugal one. "We used to lay out a large spread and invite relatives and friends for a feast around six or seven times at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian American Medical Association (SAMS) in the Turkish border city of Gaziantep has established a center for psychological and social care for Syrian refugees who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. SAMS is a non-political, non-profit medical relief...

Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia have killed 10 civilians including five children in a northwestern jihadist bastion, a monitor said Monday, hours after Moscow announced a ceasefire there. Clashes between regime forces and jihadists raged Monday on the edge of the region held by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of the Syrian displaced offices in the border city of Afrin called to a protest against the Turkish decision to close their offices, saying Turkey seeks to force the displaced to settle in northern Syria and to bar them from the right to return....

Russia says Syrian regime forces have unilaterally ceased fire in the northern Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold. Fighting erupted in Idlib late last month, effectively shattering a cease-fire negotiated by Russia and Turkey that had been in place since September. Russia has...

Israel launched strikes on southern Syria late Saturday, a monitoring group said, prompting air defenses into action for the second night in a row. "Israeli airplanes fired at least three missiles from the occupied Golan," said Rami Abdel-Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime’s economic crisis led to the ultimate cessation of financial support to pro-Bashar al-Assad’s media outlets and journalists, official sources revealed. Sha’aban Aboud, a Washington-based journalist, noted in his Facebook page, that media support for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five rebels killed in artillery fire launched by the U.S.-led forces and the regime army in Azaz town in northern Aleppo province, commander said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces backed (SDF) and regime forces seek to take territory under the control of...

Air strikes stopped in northwest Syria over the past 12 hours, rescuers said on Saturday, as Turkey-backed rebels arrived at the fronts to help fight the army and its Russian ally. A spokesman for rebels said they rejected a ceasefire proposal from Moscow as long as government forces remain...

Syria's Transport Ministry said Iraqi Airways flights to Damascus expected for the first time since the war erupted in 2011 have been postponed indefinitely. The ministry said the two flights scheduled for Saturday were postponed because of administrative issues between the Syrian Civil...

The Turkish Red Crescent, locally known as Kizilay, launched mobile clinics in northern Syria on Saturday.  The launching ceremony was held in Friendship Refugee Camp in Syria's Azaz district and attended by Red Crescent head Kerem Kinik and deputy governor of Turkey's bordering Kilis...