(Zaman Al Wasl)- Almost every famous street or main metro station in the French capital, Paris contains beggars holding signs reading "A Syrian family in need of help", benefiting from the French people’s sympathy with the Syrian tragedy. That’s how they devoted themselves, individually and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For the fifth consecutive Friday, thousands of Syrians came out to the streets of rebel-held areas to rally against the regime and key ally Russia. The demonstration took place in Idlib province and the northern countryside of Aleppo. Demonstrators held up the...

A top Israeli official has said that Iran’s military presence in Syria would still be vulnerable even after Russia provides Damascus with its more advanced S-300 air-defense system. “We have made it clear to the Russians at the highest levels in recent days that we have no interest in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people wounded Thursday by an improvised explosive device in opposition-held city of Jarablus, local activists said. The local police said it had arrested the perpetrator hours after the attack that rocked a petrol station, with no further details....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country will not leave Syria until a general election is held in the war-torn Middle-Eastern nation. "Whenever the Syrian people hold an election, we will leave Syria to its owners," Erdogan said at the TRT World forum in Istanbul on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The book "When Cells Speak" recounts the stories of 52 martyrs who died under torture in Assad's prisons. Between its pages, the true meaning of the suffering of the martyrs and detainees of the Syrian regime is revealed; they were not merely figures and numbers but they were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In the third part of Aida al-Haj Yousif’s memos, the former female detainee tells how the Syrian security turned the Mother’s Day into a bitter memory.  Mother’s Day feast has eclipsed itself from Syria ever since the outbreak of the revolution against...

Military personnel have demanded an urgent investigation into the circumstances which have created a two-week delay in the return home of 119 Irish peacekeeping troops from Syria. The peacekeepers are attached to the 57th infantry group serving with the Undof United Nations mission in...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- In the wake of the Turkish-Russian deal in northern Idlib province, the town of al-Lataminah has started to recover again where thousands of displaced people have returned to their homes, or more accurately to the rubble of houses destroyed by Russian air strikes and...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- The case of Wafa Najib, former Syrian detainee, is similar to the many cases lived in the brutal conditions of prison where basic inalienable human rights are not respected.  Najib got arrested twice, in both cases she was heavily bombarded with...

Sudan summoned the European Union ambassador to Khartoum on Wednesday to protest against an EU-organised meeting of journalists that called for strengthening of press freedoms in the African country. The meeting held on Tuesday by the EU at its office in Khartoum was attended by...

Russia has completed the delivery of an S-300 surface-to-air missile system to the Syrian military as part of new security measures following the downing of a Russian plane last month. Russian Defence Minister Sergi Shoigu on Tuesday said at a meeting of the country's security council...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two US Army soldiers killed along with three Kurdish-led forces in a car bomb attack in the town of Granij in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, activists said Wednesday. Daesh car bomb rocked a joint military convoy for the US Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes intensified Tuesday between the US-backed forces and Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province as the Kurdish-led fighters press to uproot the militants from their last pockets near the Iraqi border, local activists said.  The fighting took place in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed Hassan, pseudonym, has recently left the jails of the Syrian regime after seven years of arbitrary detention due to his participation in the peaceful demonstrations intended to overthrow Bashar Assad in March 2011. Hassan told Zaman al-Wasl a part of what he saw and...

Turkey's National Defense Ministry on Tuesday evening said the first batch of U.S. army personnel have arrived in Turkey to join training for a joint patrol activity in Manbij, Syria. A statement on the ministry's official website said efforts to start the training are ongoing....

A Syrian asylum seeker stuck in transit in Kuala Lumpur airport since March has been arrested by the Malaysian authorities who said he will be deported to his home country. Hassan al-Kontar, 36, attracted world attention when he started posting videos of his life stranded at KLIA2, the...

Over the last two days, three Russian Air Force An-124−100 Ruslan cargo planes flew to Hmeimim airbase in Syria, reports Eurasia Daily. The planes flew over the Caspian Sea and then Iran and Iraq. According to the reports, seven more IL-76 military cargo planes landed in Hmeimim airbase during...

Russia has lost 112 servicemen during its three-year operation in Syria, a senior lawmaker said late Sunday in a news conference. "As of today, the losses of our armed forces in Syria stand at 112 people, with the crashes of An-26 and Il-20 accounting for about a half of them," Viktor...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they launched a missile strike against a "terrorist" headquarters in Syria in retaliation for an attack that killed 24 people in the Iranian city of Ahvaz. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had vowed a "crushing" response to last month's assault --...