The Syrian regime-run news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defense that shot down most of them. “The results of the aggression so far were limited to a strike on one of the warehouses at Damascus...

Turkey sent a convoy of commando units and armored vehicles to the Turkish province of Hatay on the Syrian border, state-owned Anadolu news agency said Friday. The convoy was being sent to reinforce a Turkish military presence on the border near the northern province of Idlib, the last...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained a picture of a woman detainee Hana’a Abdulatif Khaled, who died under torture, and due to medical negligence in Damascus (Adra) Central Prison. The former detainee Luna al-Agha has revealed that Han’aa, who was born in 1987 in the town of...

The United States plans to host a global summit focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, next month in Poland, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News in a report published on Friday. In an interview with the news network, Pompeo said the international gathering would be...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had the impression that the United States wanted to stay in Syria despite the announced withdrawal of U.S. troops, RIA news agency reported. U.S. President Donald Trump last month unexpectedly announced a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria.

An American military official says the U.S.-led military coalition has begun the process of withdrawing troops from Syria. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-coalition fighting Daesh (ISIS), says the U.S. started "the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria." In a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local civil initiatives opened the first rehabilitation center for children with disabilities last December in the northeastern city of Jarablus, seeking more integration and adaptation in the post-war phase.  The center adopts the learning-through-playing as an...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria announced by President Donald Trump last month will go ahead despite widespread criticism. "President Trump's decision to withdraw our troops has been made. We will do that," Pompeo told a joint...

The main militant alliance in Idlib region reached a deal Thursday ending days of deadly fighting with rival rebels and extending its influence over the whole rebel enclave. The agreement brings an immediate end to the fighting between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Al-Qaeda's former...

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad expressed optimism Wednesday over dialogue with Kurdish groups that want to strike a political deal with Damascus, suggesting progress had been made in contacts mediated by Russia. Kurdish-led groups who control swathes of northern Syria have...

A group of volunteer doctors associated with a Turkish aid group provided health services and humanitarian assistance to civilians in Syrian towns cleared of the terror group. Istanbul-based Yeryuzu Doktorlari Association (YDD) has helped thousands of people in 2018, according to a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fatma, an 8-year-old Syrian refugee girl found dead Wednesday morning after torrent of floodwaters swept her from a road in the northern Minyeh-Dinnieh district on Tuesday where she was playing with her sister, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. Minyeh...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- People and rebel factions of Maarret al-Nu'man have refused the hand over their town to Tahrir al-Sham as the former al-Qaeda branch seeks to gripe the noose on most of northern western Syria.  Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels and residents of town have...

Flooding across Lebanon inundated major highways and dozens of refugee settlements Tuesday. A Syrian girl remains missing and some 50 people were injured across the course of the day. A number of roads were forced to close due to the extreme flooding precipitated by storm Norma....

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey will not refrain from military action to protect its borders from what he describes as threats posed by Syrian Kurdish fighters. The minister spoke Wednesday, a day after Turkey rejected U.S. national security adviser John Bolton's...

The Assad regime in Syria “lost its legitimacy due to its atrocities against Syrian people,” according to Martin Longden, the U.K.’s special representative for Syria. Longden said on Twitter on Tuesday that the U.K. closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012 and “we have no plans to reopen...

The Syrian regime dropped thousands of internationally-banned barrel bombs in 2018, causing numerous civilian casualties in opposition-held parts of the country, a U.K.-based rights watchdog said Tuesday. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), as many as 185 civilians...

Russian military police have begun patrolling around the Syrian city of Manbij, a spokesman said Tuesday, moving into an area once held by US-backed Kurdish forces. Russian forces are acting in support of Syrian government troops who recently deployed around Manbij, in Aleppo province...

 The flooding, heavy winds and severe drops in temperature in Lebanon affected the spontaneous camps of Syrian refugees in the majority of the country's areas, with over 50,000 people remaining in at-risk zones, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. "UNHCR...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many young men in the eastern town of Al-Muhasan in Deir Ezzor province have joined the revolution since its early days and heavy prices are still being paid. Muhannad al-Jassim, who left the Journalism school at Damascus University of Damascus, was one of them....