At least 15 people were reported killed on Sunday in shelling by  regime forces and insurgent forces in northwestern Syria, further straining a Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal for the region. The northwest is the last major foothold of insurgents opposed to President Bashar al-Assad,...

The paramedics’ log at al-Hol camp in eastern Syria lists the injuries and ailments of infants rushed from the battlefield to its crowded, dirty clinic: malnourishment, stunted growth, broken leg. Those in critical need – mostly emaciated babies born in war to the wives of dead Islamic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian refugee Amal Kanafani was grateful to the Canadian people for helping her and her sick mother, so she wished to return the favor after the death of her mother, and to be an inspiring humanitarian for other refugee women. She engaged in voluntary work and social...

Islamic State militants attempted to break out of a detention facility in northeastern Syria but U.S.-backed Syrian fighters "successfully" restored calm, activists and the U.S-led coalition said Saturday. Few details emerged about what transpired a day earlier in the detention facility in...

For generations her husband's family managed the iconic Baron Hotel in northern Syria, but after years of war the inn is empty and Rubina Mazloumian says she is too tired to carry on. The Baron Hotel was once the fanciest in Aleppo, Syria's second city, visited by a long list of celebrated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Lebanese General Security announced Friday that another series of voluntary Syrian refugee returns will take place early next week from various areas across Lebanon, the Daily Star reported. The voluntary return trips will depart Monday starting at 6 a.m. from...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- A legal report issued this week has shed the light on the mounting abuses against the Syrian detainees inside the Lebanese prisons. The sentences issued by the Lebanese Military Court against Syrian detainees are clearly and unequivocally...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Danish Immigration Service has informed many Syrian refugees that their residency would not be renewed and better for them to accept the voluntary return to Syria, especially for people of Damascus. The decision comes after many decisions taken by the Danish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish PYD militia has launched new conscription campaign in northeastern Hasaka province, tracking hundreds of youth from Arabs and Kurds, local activist said Friday. The campaign comes as Russia encourages the young men in the Kurdish-dominated area to join the...

A court in Germany has found a 29-year-old Syrian man guilty of war crimes for torturing members of pro-government forces in Syria. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the Stuttgart regional court sentenced Mohamad K. to four years and six months in prison. K., whose...

Dozens of displaced families on Thursday left the Rukban camp in southeastern Syria and reached a crossing point in the Syrian Desert, state-run news agency SANA reported. The displaced Syrian families reached the Jlaighem crossing in the eastern countryside of Homs Province in central...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that documented chemical attacks in Syria have amounted to nearly 221 attacks since 23 December 2012, the date of the first recorded use of chemical weapons in the country, until 4 April. This came in a report released on Thursday on the...

Heavy bombardment by the Syrian army of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region has killed 22 civilians, a monitor said Thursday, the latest violence to theaten a seven-month-old truce. The ceasefire was brokered by the main foreign backers of the warring parties in September to head off a...

Syria's foreign minister said Thursday that the Trump administration "lies" all the time about withdrawing its troops from the country, and that its decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights increases America's isolation, "even among its closest allies."...

Syrian government shelling killed at least a dozen people in the rebel-held northwest on Thursday, rescue workers said, as Damascus said its patience was running out over the implementation of a Russian-Turkish agreement in the area. The shelling killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens...

Young children nursing severe facial burns, others suffering from malnutrition -- an exodus of jihadist families and civilians from the Islamic State group's vanquished final enclave is overwhelming eastern Syria's hospitals. A handful of health facilities in the Kurdish-administered...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Wednesday of "devastating" results if Turkey strikes Syria as he met in Washington with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. "Secretary Pompeo expressed support for ongoing negotiations regarding northeast Syria, while warning of the potentially...

The Reuters team sat down in the dimly lit room in the camp in Ain Issa, northern Syria, and waited for the two Belgian sisters-in-law to arrive. Our reporters in Brussels had been following their story for months: the women had joined Islamic State in Syria at its height, surrendered to...

Israel's military says it has recovered the remains of an Israeli soldier missing since the 1982 war in Lebanon. The body of Sergeant First Class Zachary Baumel, a US-born tank commander, was flown back to Israel on an El Al plane a few days ago. He was one of three soldiers still...

A blast in Syria’s Raqqa on Wednesday that wounded people was caused by an unexploded mine left by Islamic State going off, not by suicide attacks, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said. The head of the SDF’s media office Mustafa Bali told journalists in an online message that...