Scores of members of Syria’s White Helmets civil defense agency have left Jordan to western countries, according to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry. “A total of 279 civil defense volunteers have left the kingdom,” the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 18 regime forces from coastal Latakia province have been killed since mid September, pro-regime news feeds reported. The death toll included 5 army officers. Most of them were killed in the clashes with Daesh in the southern province of Sweida and eastern...

 The academic year began on Wednesday for Syrian orphans at residential complex in southern Hatay province of Turkey. The complex, which was jointly built by Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and Yetim Vakfi (Orphan Foundation), includes newly-constructed primary...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian woman has given birth to quintuplets in northeastern city of Qamishli, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. Hana' Hatem Soufi Salih gave birth by the caesarean section  at al-Amal hospital in the Kurdish-dominated city.  The five babies...

With a mounting uproar over the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been playing a critical role in the White House’s response to the situation, according to multiple sources. A senior Trump administration official said...

A Syrian man who launched an arson attack and took a woman hostage at a German train station was an unemployed refugee with psychological problems and a history of street offences, police said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors who deal with terrorist cases said they planned to take over the...

A day after jihadists missed a deadline under a demilitarisation deal for Idlib, key powerbroker Russia said the deal was still going ahead. The agreement, reached by rebel backer Turkey and regime ally Moscow, gave "radical fighters" until Monday to leave a horseshoe-shaped buffer...

Syrian President Bashar Assad has tentative plans to visit Crimea in April 2019 and is in talks about starting regular passenger flights between Syria and the Black Sea peninsula, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. The agencies cited members of a Crimean delegation visiting Syria...

For seven years, Sheikh Mahmud al-Taweel had been unable to see relatives living in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But with the reopening of the Quneitra crossing Monday, the Syrian Druze hopes to reunite with them soon. As the Syrian national anthem blasted from...

Syrian opposition groups hope to see a viable cease-fire imposed in Idlib, Ahmed Tuma, former prime minster of the Syrian Interim Government, said at a Monday press conference convened in Istanbul. Speaking at a press conference organized by the Syrian National Coalition to discuss the...

Some four million civilians taking shelter in Syria's Idlib province -- with Turkey's efforts -- have been protected from a possible massacre and migration risk imposed by the Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies. Located in northwest Syria, Idlib has become one of the regions hit by the...

The border crossing between Jordan and Syria was opened on Monday after a three-year closure, according to a Jordanian government spokeswoman. “The Jaber-Naseeb border crossing will be open for 8 hours a day,” Jumana Ghunaimat said Monday. She said technical committees from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian historic cities of Aleppo and Palmyra were presented in the “Endangered Heritage Protection Fair” in the Institute of the Arab World in Paris this week, with the participation of the Louvre Museum and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Some 835 Syrian refugees have registered with Lebanese General Security to return to their home country Monday, a source from the security agency told The Daily Star. About 5,000 refugees have gone home from Lebanon this year; most of the refugees are from the western...

A deadline passed Monday without militants leaving a planned buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib as set out under a Russian-Turkish deal. The radical fighters were supposed to withdraw from the buffer as a final condition to implementing a Russian-Turkish deal...

A Russian-Turkish deal to set up a buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion hung by a thread Sunday, as jihadists showed no sign of withdrawing hours before a deadline. The accord also provides for the clearance of heavy weapons from a U-shaped zone around the northwestern...

The border crossing between Jordan and Syria will reopen on Monday after being closed for years, a Jordanian government spokeswoman and Syrian state television said Sunday after weeks of talks. "This was a crucial artery of trade between Jordan and Syria and transit to other countries,"...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday threatened to inflict "very strong blows" on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the group. "Hamas has apparently not understood the message – if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in...

Rebels have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwest Syria, an activist group said Sunday, days after they were meant to have withdrawn such weapons from the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in the zone fired several "mortar shells at an army...