Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday. Some 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime-held areas in Deir Ezzor province have been experiencing a shortage of bread for weeks as regime officials attribute increased demand for bread to the influx of people fleeing battlefield of Daesh and US-led forces in the eastern countryside. Despite...

The U.S.-led coalition against Daesh on Monday defended striking a hospital in eastern Syria. The Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a press release that Daesh terrorists used Hajin Hospital in Deir ez-Zor province as a platform to engage partner...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five children have been killed in a landmine explosion in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, local activists said Tuesday. The explosives are suspected to have been planted by regime forces in the village of al-Jarba during the war on the eastern enclave of...

The U.N. Special envoy for Syria said Monday work is still ongoing to form a committee meant to draft a new constitution before the end of the year, adding that hurdles remain in place. Staffan de Mistura made his comments in Jordan after meeting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the radical islamist militant group, has decided to execute a Syrian citizen-journalist after one year in captivity, accusing him of contacting Hezbollah and Israel to attack Daesh and jihadists groups bastions in northern Syria, local activists and...

Syrian regime forces and allied militias continued their attacks in Idlib’s de-escalation zone on Monday despite a ceasefire agreement, according to an opposition spokesman.  "The Assad regime forces continue to launch airstrikes on Idlib and Hama,” Naji Mustafa, a spokesman for...

The United Nations has begun sending desperately needed aid from Jordan to hundreds of thousands of civilians in war-torn Syria. The U.N.'s humanitarian office said on Sunday that 369 trucks will carry one month's worth of supplies to Syria. It's the first cross-border aid shipment...

State-run Syrian Arab News Agency deleted Sunday an earlier report that said that Syrian air defenses had intercepted enemy targets around Damascus international airport Sunday.

Cyprus police say they have detained 40 Syrian migrants after a boat dropped them off along the ethnically split island nation's northwestern coast. Police said Sunday authorities had initially located the boat about 25 kilometers (15 miles) off the island's coast late Saturday. The...

Lilas Almalaki didn’t know a word of German when she enrolled in an Austrian middle school two months after fleeing her war-torn homeland in 2015, so she relied on the proficient English she learned as a top student in Syria to keep the bullies in place. Hassan Husseini didn’t speak...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl reporter Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani is expected to be released on Wednesday after three weeks of arbitrary arrest by the Lebanese State Intelligence, legal source said.   The Lebanese Public Prosecution in Baalbek city has accused al-Houlani, who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As the Syrian regime arrests hundreds of young men in the Eastern and southern suburbs of Damascus despite reconciliation deal reached in April, another dirty game the intelligence has been working on related to the values of the conservative society in Ghouta district....

A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in eastern Syria, engaging in deadly battles with U.S.-backed forces. Cornered in the desert near the Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 300 civilians, mostly women and children, have been evacuated from the battleground of Hajin town through humanitarian corridors on Saturday, Kurdish media outlets said. The influx of people out of Daesh pocket in eastern Deir Ezzor province has followed heavy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six regime army officers were killed Friday when a landmine exploded inside their base in southern Daraa province, pro-regime news feeds said. The explosion took place in Battalion 210 near the town Al-Sanamayn. More than 125,000 pro-regime forces have been...

  (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- The Humanitarian Relief Agency (IYD), local NGO operating in northern Aleppo province, has launched projects for barley cultivation. The in-door project consists of five cultivation rooms, two in Jarablus town and three rooms in Kibasin town. ...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bulldozers of the US Army in northern city of Manbij have been digging day and night looking for archaeological treasures buried in the Kurdish-held town, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Manbej, 80 km north-east of Aleppo, is one of the oldest cities in Syria,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese General Security has handed over 1000 Syrian refugees to the Syrian Intelligence on Thursday following major arrest campaign in camps of the border town of Arsal, human rights advocates said. The head of the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research, Anwar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army on Thursday has buried 31 soldiers and militants in the central city of Homs, media outlets reported. The  Ferdaws  cemetery, or the Unknown Soldier Tomb, has become the last home for   the unidentified fighters....