Outgoing UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met with Syria's top diplomat in Damascus on Wednesday, the UN and state media said, to try to make progress on a post-war constitution. De Mistura announced last week he would step down at the end of November, but said he would first travel to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At a time when government agencies were honoring and hailing the medical achievements of the Mouwasat hospital in Damascus for carrying a successful operation or holding a medical conference, a number of accusations against the hospital came to the fore.  The last...

Japan's government says it has received information that a man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist captured three years ago in war-torn Syria has been freed and is now in Turkey.  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a hastily arranged news conference late on...

Body parts of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found in the garden of the Saudi Arabian consul general’s home, Sky News reported Tuesday. The Daily Star

The U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Monday targeted and destroyed a mosque in the Deir Ezzor province, according to a top pentagon official. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning told reporters the mosque was deliberately targeted by U.S. forces because it was being used as a command...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The YPG-affiliated security, Asayish, has arrested at least 30 people in northeastern Hasaka province, saying they have links with Daesh jihadist group, local activists reported Sunday. Asayish, the police force of the Kurdish autonomous cantons, waged major arrest...

Turkish and American troops could begin conducting joint patrols in a matter of days around the northern Syrian city of Manbij within the coming days, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Sunday. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters traveling...

More than 100 migrants who were rescued at sea have been waiting months to be transferred to Germany, the German government says. Bureaucracy seems to be the main obstacle. One hundred and fifteen migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea have been waiting for months in Italy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The lack of fund for the education sector in the western countryside of Hama province has caused severe shortage of textbooks along with the lack of teachers’ salaries. Teachers have been working voluntarily for the second year in four schools, while the other schools...

A Syrian war monitor and an opposition paramedics group say an explosion in the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib has killed at least seven people and wounded others. The Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said Sunday's blast occurred near a mosque killing three people,...

Bashar Assad met representatives of Russia's foreign and defense ministries in Damascus Friday, Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday. During the meeting, they discussed development of situation in Syria and reaffirmed their commitment to the "destruction of terrorist...

An offensive by US-backed forces against the Islamic State group's last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 jihadists on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said. Twenty-eight IS members were killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition around the town of Hajin, the Syrian Observatory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that Russia is planning to station S-300 surface-to-air missile system near the T-4 Airbase in a warning signal to Israel that hit the desert base three times since August. Heavy Russian engineering equipment machines have...

Daesh (ISIS) has released six of 27 Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack in southern Sweida province in exchange for a prisoner swap and ransom, a monitor said Saturday. "Two women and four children from the province of Sweida were released last night," Rami Abdel...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people, 6 Syrians and 9 Iraqi displaced, were killed Friday in the the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on a mosque in eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to local sources. The attack followed Friday prayers in the Daesh-held town of Al-Susah, activist Taj...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- For the eighth consecutive Friday, thousands of people came out to the streets of rebel-held areas to rally against the regime, condemning the Russian call to deport White Helmets workers out of Syria. The demonstrations, which took place in the province of...

A quadrilateral summit on Syria between Turkey, Russia, Germany and France will be held in Istanbul on Oct. 27, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Friday. The meeting, which will be hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will see the participation of Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-led International Coalition has set up new military base for French troops in the eastern province of Raqqa, local monitoring group said Friday. The French forces will be stationed north of the city center as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been...

The United Nations envoy for Syria announced on Wednesday he will step down at the end of November after more than four years in the key post as UN efforts to end the seven-year war show no sign of a breakthrough. "I will myself be moving on as of the last week of November," Staffan de...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Family of Owaish Buzzan has appealed to the powerful Kurdish PYD militia to release the16-year-old year daughter who fell a victim for forced recruitment by the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Buzzan, like thousands of teenagers and children, was forcibly...