Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to make his way to Europe and find work. He never made it there. Instead, Mehdi ended up fighting in Syria's civil war, a conflict he had nothing to...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman said on Sunday that he “absolutely rejects” any measures that impact on Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Addressing an Arab League summit in Tunis, he also reiterated Saudi Arabia’s position supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West...

Clashes with guards, violent factional quarrels and a new strain of ultra-extremism -- the Islamic State group's territorial "caliphate" may be defeated, but a camp in eastern Syria is emerging as a fresh jihadist powder keg. Dislodged in a final offensive by a Kurdish-led ground force and...

The joint Russia-Syria coordination center on refugee repatriation has said that the US troop command in Syria's At Tanf zone blocked access to refugees of the Rukban camp for monitoring and assessment of the situation, stressing that Washington had refused to take part in a coordination...

Earlier, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford denied reports that close to 1,000 of the estimated 2,000 US troops in Syria would stay in the war-torn country despite President Trump's withdrawal promises. The withdrawal of the US military contingent in Syria will be put on...

Plump fruits, bright slushies, and hair dye -- the colourful market in Al-Hol is an unlikely sight in a Syrian camp overflowing with desperate people displaced as the Islamic State group's "caliphate" collapsed. Clothing stalls stacked with colourful scarves line the side of a muddy road....

Turkey's president on Saturday said that they will "definitely" solve Syria issue on the field after Sunday's local elections in Turkey.  "We will definitely solve Syria issue on the field, if possible, and not on the table, as the first work after elections," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...

By Ben Hubbard AL HOL CAMP, Syria — She left the Netherlands to join the Islamic State in Syria, and married a fighter here. He was killed, so she married another, who got her pregnant before he was killed, too. Then this month, as the Islamic State collapsed, she surrendered with her...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 residents of Eastern Ghouta suburbs were arrested by the regime security last week as regime tracks young men who escaped conscription. The arrest campaign took place in Kafr Batna, Harasta and neighboring suburbs east of the capital, local activists say....

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report released Thursday that the identification of bodies in mass graves in Raqqa province is an international responsibility, noting that there are nearly 4,247 forcibly disappeared persons in Raqqa governorate whose fate...

The U.S.-led coalition says more than 1,250 civilians were killed in 34,038 airstrikes against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria during a more than four-year period. The coalition in a statement Thursday released the civilian death toll from the period between when the aerial campaign began in...

Despite all the difficulties his project had faced for a year, Riadh Abu Adel Al Sawadi has continued his unique experiment in the production of earthworm compost in his town in northern Idlib province. His experiment began in China, where he lived for five years, returning to his...

The demise of the jihadist empire that spirited away his teenage son could have been reason to rejoice but, for Abdelsalam Mohammed, with the fall of Baghouz came a crushing disappointment. The eastern Syrian hamlet was the Islamic State group's last bastion but for the relatives of many...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday roundly rejected Washington’s decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Syria called for an emergency meeting of the council following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision Monday to unilaterally recognize...

An Israeli missile attack late Wednesday targeted Aleppo, Syria's largest city, according to the Syrian regime-run SANA news agency. “At nearly 11.00 p.m. [2100GMT] on Wednesday, March 23, 2019, army air defenses intercepted Israeli air aggression," SANA early Thursday quoted a anonymous...

(The Syrian regime army on Wednesday intercepted several missiles that were fired by Israeli jets during raids on an industrial zone in the northern city of Aleppo with damage to materials only, state television said. “The Israeli aggression targeted some positions in Sheikh Najar...

Syria is calling on the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting over the Golan Heights, according to some diplomatic sources. Syria’s call came after U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights. On Monday,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Tuesday has freed three detainees, two men and woman, after the former-al-Qaeda group agreed to unveil the army's mass graves in Idlib province, local activists said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gave the regime the coordinates of mass graves for...

On a long-disused film set outside Damascus featuring mud houses, palm trees, alleyways and camels, actors in flowing robes are making a television series that the producers say is part of a gradual revival of their industry. Like most other sectors of the economy in Syria, the film and...

The Turkish Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces on Tuesday conducted the first independent but coordinated patrol in northern Syria, Turkish Defense Ministry said. “Within the framework of the previous agreement, the Turkish Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces carried out the...