Syria has amended a controversial property law to allow people a year instead of a month to prove ownership of land seized for development, the foreign minister said Saturday. The law, known as Decree 10, allows Syria's government to seize private property for zoned developments and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime artillery pounded the opposition-held areas in coastal Latakia province on Saturday, following rebels' attacks on regime checkpoint and killing at least six troops, activists said. The ground shelling hit the villages of al-Najiyyah and Bdama, using...

A delegation from Syria's tolerated domestic opposition made a rare visit to the Kurdish region Saturday after the president threatened to use force to retake areas held by the Kurds. The Kurds, whose militia spearhead an anti-militant force backed by a U.S.-led coalition, have long...

Saudi Arabia announced another cabinet reshuffle Saturday with a heavy focus on culture and religion, as the kingdom undergoes a major image overhaul. This is the second significant government change since the appointment of Prince Mohammad bin Salman, son of the king, as heir to the...

At least 12 civilians - members of the same family - have been killed in U.S.-led coalition raids on Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Syria, a monitor said Saturday. "The air strikes and artillery fire [Friday night] by the international coalition on the village of Hidaj, held by IS in the...

Saudi Arabia has reportedly begun talks to bolster the Arab element of a U.S.-backed force tasked with defeating the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria. Turkey's official Anadolu Agency reported Tuesday that three Saudi Arabian military advisers flew to the northern Syrian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 regime forces were killed Thursday in a rocket attack hit their bastions in Turkmen Mountain in the coastal Latakia province, sources said. The anti-tank Fagot missiles came in retaliation to regime bombing which targeted a de-escalation zone area in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has been facilitating the move of ISIS militants into opposition-held areas in the southern province of Daraa, sources said.  The move comes as regime and allied Shiite militias close to launch major offensive to take a de-escalation zone near the...

Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) provided Ramadan food aid to 115,000 people in opposition-held areas in Syria, in cooperation with the King Salman Foundation, according to IHH media advisor in Syria, Selim Tosun, on Thursday. IHH and Turkey's Gebze Cayirova Municipality...

The U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal opens the way to raising pressure on Tehran to stop its military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and leave the country, a Syrian opposition leader said on Thursday. Nasr Hariri of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) spoke...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Military Intelligence has released Zaman Al Wasl reporter Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani after after a week of his arrest from a Syrian refugee camp in the border town of Arsal, sources said. Al-Houlani, 40, was arrested by the four Military Intelligence agents who...

President Bashar al-Assad said he would recover areas of Syria held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that U.S. forces should learn the lesson of Iraq and leave the country. In an interview with Russia Today, Assad also said the government had "started now opening doors...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Military Intelligence transferred Zaman Al Wasl reporter Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani to the infamous prison of Defense Army after a week of his arrest from a Syrian refugee camp in the border town of Arsal, sources said. Al-Houlani, 40, was arrested by the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rescue workers have retrieved 15 bodies trapped under mounds of debris in the Yarmouk Palestinian Camp south of the capital, local activists said Wednesday. Bodies of a mother and her four children were retrieved after lifting heavy slabs of concrete in search of...

NGO workers in Hungary could soon face prison after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government tabled what it calls the "Stop Soros" laws to parliament Tuesday, targeting "organisers of illegal migration". According to the text of the legislation, helping asylum-seekers to acquire refugee...

Displaced from her home in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, Umaima al-Sheikh and her family sought refuge in an abandoned house across the country in Afrin. The traditionally Kurdish town had been emptied of its residents just weeks earlier, after a brutal Turkish-led offensive forced tens of thousands...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozen of civilains were wounded Tuesday when the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces opened fire to disperse outraged crowd near an oil field in Deir Ezzor province, local activists said. The tension erupted when a civilian was beaten by members of the Kurdish-led...

Georgia said Tuesday it had started procedures to sever diplomatic relations with Syria after Damascus recognized its breakaway regions as independent states, a move Tbilisi dubbed manipulation from Russia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia in wars in the early 1990s...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) fighters attacked bastions of the U.S.-backed militia east of Deir Ezzor city , .killing dozens, activists said Tuesday The attack near al-Sha'fah town followed slow gains by the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the eastern bank of...

The Syrian regime army has completed preparations for an imminent offensive against rebel-held areas in southwestern Syria, a non-Syrian commander in a military alliance that backs Damascus said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights separately reported that rebels in the...