U.S.-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday to flush out holdout militants from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate." Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front line in the remote village of Baghouz near the...

Syrian regime attacks in Idlib and Hama have displaced nearly 200,000 civilians over the past five months, the Director of the Syrian Response Coordinators Team, Mohammed Al-Hallaj, said. Al-Hallaj told the Anadolu Agency that some 122,000 civilians have been displaced from the...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battled Islamic State militants holed up in the Baghouz area overnight, supported by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, the SDF said, seeking to defeat the last pockets of jihadist resistance. The SDF has been battling for weeks to defeat Islamic State at the...

The Syrian government condemned on Friday U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that it was time to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and said Syria was determined to recover the area “through all available means”. In a statement published by the Syrian state news...

After years of war, the scent of laurel oil once again wafts from a small soap workshop in Aleppo, signalling the revival of a landmark trade in the battered northern city. Surrounding soap workshops in the Al-Nayrab district still lie in ruins, badly damaged in the four-year battle for the...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was time to back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in U.S. policy and giving a boost to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the middle of his re-election campaign....

Kurdish-led forces Thursday combed the banks of the Euphrates in eastern Syria to smoke out the last jihadists preventing the much-delayed announcement of the demise of the Islamic State's "caliphate". The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an assault against the last IS...

French prosecutors have called for the uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stand trial on charges of pilfering Syrian state coffers to amass a 90 million-euro ($102 million) property portfolio in France, including a stud farm and a chateau, judicial sources told AFP Thursday....

US-backed forces pressed an offensive against the Islamic State group in its last redoubt in Syria on Thursday, denying reports the jihadist enclave had fallen. "Mopping up operations continue in Baghouz camp," the command of the Syrian Democratic Forces said in a brief statement. The...

Five civilians were killed and five others injured in overnight airstrikes in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, according to sources with the White Helmets civil defense agency. Airstrikes that continued until Thursday morning claimed the lives of four children and their father in...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied a report on Thursday that all of Daesh's (ISIS) final enclave has been captured after a Kurdish media outlet said the militant group had been finally defeated there. "Combing continues in the Baghouz camp and there is no truth (to the...

Thousands of civilians were killed while over a half million others displaced in Syria since September 2014 when the U.S.-led International Coalition forces launched a counter-terrorism campaign, a U.K.-based human rights group on Wednesday.  The report by Syrian Network for Human...

 France, one of the main contributors to the fight against Islamic State in the Middle East, has received no answers to questions about U.S. calls for it and others to help secure northeastern Syria, its foreign minister said on Wednesday. Defence Minister Florence Parly was in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The artist is a part of society; he simulates the historical, social, intellectual, political as well as economic issues as he lives the present changes within his society.  Salih al-Hajr, 40, told Zaman al-Wasl that he tried to visually document the rich details...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime on Wednesday has freed 50 detainees were held in the Hama Central Prison after weeks of tension and rebellion by political inmates, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The release followed an official visit by senior security officers in the Police and...

The operation to take Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria looked close to an end on Wednesday, with no sign of clashes as U.S.-backed fighters said they were combing the area for hidden jihadists. Reuters reporters overlooking Baghouz from a hill on the bank of the Euphrates at...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) conducted clearing operations on Wednesday after taking most of the last Islamic State pocket in east Syria, an official with the U.S.-backed militia said. Fighters searched the pocket at Baghouz near the Iraqi border for hidden jihadists, tunnels and...

Kuwaiti authorities will refer a Syrian businessman and five others to the public prosecution over charges of money laundering, local media reported on Wednesday.  Businessman Mazen al-Tarzi was arrested late Monday from his work place at Al-Hadaf magazine, Al-Qabas newspaper...

Three civilians were killed in artillery shelling by regime forces and Iran-backed groups in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province on Wednesday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.  The shelling targeted the opposition-held towns of Qalaat al-Madiq and Al-Hwaiz, the...

A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in the world” were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for victims of shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that horrified a nation known for being welcoming and diverse. The funerals...