Lebanese General Security said 377 refugees who had been living near the northeastern border town of Arsal returned to Syria Saturday, in a voluntary return the agency coordinated with the UNHCR, the Daily Star reported. Most of the refugees are from the western Qalamoun...

Syrian regime soldiers are celebrating the recapture of the main border crossing with Jordan, raising portraits of President Bashar Assad and tearing down rebel flags. Troops captured the Nassib border crossing a day earlier, after rebels announced they had reached an agreement with...

180,000 children have been forced to flee their homes with little means of protection, shelter or assistance, UNICEF said Friday.   In a statement, the agency said it had received “horrific reports” from southern Syria, including the death of an entire family in the city of...

Preliminary analysis by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog found chlorine was used in an attack in Douma, Syria, in April that killed dozens of civilians and prompted air strikes by Britain, France and the United States, it said Friday.  The Organization for the Prohibition of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people, including 7 SDF fighters, were killed on Friday in a car bomb attack targeted Kurdish-led forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl. The Daesh-suspected attack took place in the town of al-Bseera east of Deir Ezzor...

Syrian regime forces on Friday reached a vital border crossing with Jordan and raised the national flag for the first time in years, state media reported, reinstating sovereignty over a key region that potentially reopens the way for Syrian exports to Arab countries. State news agency...

Syrian regime army and allied militias to pull out of eastern Daraa and Russian-led forces to take charge under new deal: rebel spox Reuters

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces pressed new gains against Daesh in northeastern Hasaka province, taking two villages, local activists said Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) backed the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have seized the villages of Qabr Taha and...

Syrian regime forces in south Syria have advanced along the Jordanian border, seizing a string of villages, and will soon reach the strategic Nasib border crossing, a pro-Assad commander said Friday. The army and allies in Daraa province arrived at the frontier on Thursday and "within a...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said no less than 4,082 arrest cases were recorded in the first , half of 2018, including 667 cases in June by regime forces and armed groups, according to the watchdog's July report .   The report notes that arbitrary arrests have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jordan's Professional Association will set up a field hospital at the border as influx of Syrian displaced continue due to the ongoing offensive by regime and allied militias. Ali al-Obous, head of the association's council told Zaman al-Wasl the Union of Jordanian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A family of six members, four children and two women, has been killed in Russian airstrikes on southern town of Saida on Thursday, rescuing Civil Defense agency said. Dark clouds of smoke rose over rebel-held areas in Daraa province on Thursday as Bashar Assad's Russian...

Jordan's mediation has succeeded in getting Syrian rebel negotiators back to the table with Russian officers over a final deal that ends the fighting and brings state control over Daraa province, a Syrian opposition spokesman said. Ibrahim al Jabawi said the two sides were expected to...

Dark clouds of smoke rose over Syrian rebel-held areas near the border with Jordan on Thursday as Bashar Assad's Russian allies unleashed heavy air strikes and regime forces launched ground assaults. Assad aims to recapture the entire southwest including the frontiers with the...

The Islamic State group says the son of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed fighting Syrian regime forces. The announcement of the death of the al-Baghdadi's young son appeared on the group's social media accounts late Tuesday. It included a picture of a young boy...

Russian air strikes against rebels in southern Daraa province resumed Wednesday, residents and an activist group said, after a rebel said talks to restore regime rule there peacefully had failed. The air strikes targeted the towns of Tafas, northwest of the provincial capital Daraa, and...

The European Union on Wednesday slammed attacks by the Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies on opposition-held Daraa province in southwestern Syria. "Such attacks are clear violations of international law and international humanitarian law that also put at risk any progress in Geneva...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh fighters attacked regime forces in Syrian desert late on Tuesday, taking number of troops captive, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Ahmed Joma'a, Dumayr-based activist, said the surprise attack by Daesh had targeted a military post neat al-Seen airport near the...

Syrian opposition forces on Wednesday offered a cease-fire in Syria’s southern Daraa province in return for allowing civil institutions to resume operations in areas under their control.  The offer comes as part of a raft of proposals submitted to Russian officials by armed...

Syrian rebel negotiators began a new round of talks with Russian officers Tuesday over a peace deal in southern Syria under which they would hand over weapons and allow Russian military police to enter rebel-held towns, an opposition spokesman said. Accompanied by a major Russian aerial...