Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed Sunday to coordinate to prevent an authority vacuum from developing as the United States withdraws from Syria, the Turkish presidency said. In a phone call between the two leaders, Erdogan also expressed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's regime head Bashar al-Assad on Sunday issued a decree raising the salaries of military personnel and the pensions of retired military personnel, in a second rise in six months, the state-run news agency said. The military pilots, who conducted thousands of...

Iraqi presidency on Sunday denied a report claiming a proposed mediation between the PKK terrorist group and Assad regime in Syria. The London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper said in a report that Iraqi President Barham Salih is filling the gap left by the U.S. decision to withdraw its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- L’afflux de djihadistes en Syrie a creusé une autre fraction de la société déchirée par la guerre en raison du mariage illégal de djihadistes et de centaines d’enfants syriens nés de pères non identifiés. Des activistes locaux ont déclaré qu'au moins 2200 femmes...

 (Zaman Al Wasl) - Le chef du régime syrien Bashar al-Assad a publié dimanche un décret augmentant les salaires du personnel militaire et les pensions de retraite du personnel militaire à la retraite, une deuxième hausse en six mois, a annoncé l'agence de presse officielle. Selon...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday he deeply regretted U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. In an abrupt policy shift, Trump announced Wednesday that Washington would withdraw the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, upending a pillar of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's General Security has announced it will secure a voluntary return trip Monday for around 1,000 Syrian refugees from various regions in Lebanon, The Daily Star reported. About 110,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Lebanon to their home country in...

Rozan Qarqour lives with her husband and six children in a tiny room in an unfinished building, where they share a bathroom with other Syrian refugees. Her husband sells paper cups of cardamom-flavored Arabic coffee on the streets of the Lebanese port city of Sidon to earn a few dollars to buy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Forty-two judges in Suweida have filed a lawsuit against a man uncovered corruption in the judiciary and the security services in the southern Druze-dominated province, accusing him of "defaming and undermining the the state." In a meeting held at the cultural center in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl) - Quarante-deux juges de Suweida ont engagé une action en justice contre un homme qui aurait révélé une corruption dans le système judiciaire et dans les services de sécurité de la province du sud dominée par les Druzes, l'accusant de "diffamation et atteinte à l'État"....

The U.S. special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat Daesh has submitted his resignation, CBS News reported Saturday. Brett McGurk's resignation will take effect Dec. 31. He has served the post for three years. McGurk worked under the past three...

Nearly 300,000 Syrians returned to their homes after the Turkish military conducted successful operations in the region, the interior minister said Saturday "The number of Syrians who returned to their country after the Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch is 291,790," Suleyman...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A ten-year-old boy was killed Saturday when militants of the former al-Qaeda branch opened fire on a van carrying civilians in northern Idlib province, local activists said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said its checkpoint in the town of Ma'arret Mesrin had...

Iran's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the U.S. military presence in Syria had been "illogical and a source of tension", Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. President Donald Trump has begun what will be a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, declaring Wednesday they have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Some 110,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Lebanon to their home country in 2018, Lebanese General Security head Abbas Ibrahim told local news channel MTV Friday, The Daily Star reported. Such a number contracts with statement delivered by the Lebanese Caretaker...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The command of US Army in Syria has informed Jaish Maghawir al-Thawra that it will shut its base in the al-Taf border crossing with Iraq, following President Donald Trump's shock decision to withdraw from Syria on Thursday.  Muhannad Tula'a, Commander of The...

President Donald Trump made the decision to remove the U.S. troops from Syria during a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart, The Associated Press reported Friday. Trump made the decision without consulting his top national security officials and key U.S. allies, The AP reported,...

Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria may not be able to continue hold Daesh (ISIS) prisoners if the situation in the region gets out of control, top Syrian Kurdish official Ilham Ahmed said Friday. Speaking alongside her at a Paris news conference, Riad Darar, co-chair of the Syrian...

French presidency officials met representatives of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces in Paris Friday and assured them of French support, an Elysee palace official said. Officials from the U.S.-backed SDF met with advisers to French President Emmanuel Macron following...

The Arab tribes in northeastern Syria began to take some measures following the U.S. decision to withdraw from Syria, according to local sources. After the U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal, the leaders of the Syrian Arab tribes started to take some measures. Syrian...