Zaman Al Wasl news site is condemning the arrest of its reporter in the Syrian refugee camps of Arsal by the Lebanese military intelligence on Thursday and calling for his immediate release. Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani was arrested by the Military Intelligence Division from his makeshift...

Crude oil prices fell more than 4.5 percent in the past two days with a surprise increase in U.S. crude oil inventories and Russia and Saudi Arabia signaling they could ease their production limit agreement. International benchmark Brent crude fell to as low as $76.02 per barrel on...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people, including members of former al-Qaeda group, were killed on Friday in a series of attacks hit the northern province of Idlib, local reporter said. Four members from Tahrir al-Sham were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the group's...

Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria's demographic map, erecting borders between the country's ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase. Displaced Syrians, analysts, and rights defenders have described to AFP a divided country...

Residents in Syria’s northeastern Al-Hasakah province have protested against the Kurdish YPG militia for forcibly arming the youth in the city. Locals in Al-Hasakah gathered in the city center to protest against the terror group, which controls the city. Terrorists captured some...

Syrian aircraft Friday dropped leaflets on the southern province of Daraa, urging the rebels who control most of it to lay down their weapons or face an offensive. Residents told AFP that several different leaflets were scattered across the province, which has borders with Israel and...

A U.S. delegation began negotiations with Turkish officials on Manbij, northern Syria on Friday, Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Turkey and the U.S. have established a mechanism to address separate issues in working groups, including stabilization of Manbij and to prevent any...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said he hopes that U.S. and Turkish forces will avoid any risk from close encounters in northern Syria, emphasizing the importance on solving bilateral issues. Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pompeo said at his June 4...

Syrian regime media said a military airport near Homs city had come under missile attack which was repelled by its air defense systems Thursday. "One of our military airports in the central region was exposed to a hostile missile attack, and our air defense systems confronted the attack...

A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group has detained a high-profile French Daesh (ISIS) fighter in northern Syria who has been linked to terror attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, the group announced Thursday. The Syrian Democratic Forces said they captured Adrien Lionel Kiyali...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- AA)- Syrian regime forces backed by Shiite militias area readying to launch major offensive against rebels in southern Daraa province. Opposition sources told Anadolu Agency that regime forces hoped to assert control over the Nassib border crossing with Jordan,...

 Some 250 asylum-seekers have blocked a busy northern Greek highway, in a second day of protests against overcrowding and poor conditions in the nearby camp they are housed in. The peaceful protest by mostly Kurdish migrants at Diavata, on Thessaloniki's western outskirts, lasted...

 Syrian state-run media reported that the U.S.-led coalition fighting Daesh (ISIS) struck army positions in eastern Syria early on Thursday, but the U.S. military denied knowledge of it. Daesh lost most of its territory in Syria last year, but retained some remote desert areas and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Around 35,000 of those bussed out of the onetime rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus have resettled in Afrin region by Turkey as the original residents, mostly Kurds, see return as a distant dream. A Turkish-led assault this year displaced over 137,000...

Israel is pressing the Trump administration to recognize its sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, an Israeli cabinet minister said Wednesday, predicting U.S. assent could come within months. Interviewed by Reuters, Intelligence Minister Israel Katz described endorsement of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four regime troops killed by Daesh (ISIS) in surprise attack hit their bastions in eastern Deir Ezzor province Wednesday, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Nine more troops were wounded when Daesh stormed regime checkpoints near the town of Albulail east of Deir Ezzor,...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday criticized recent remarks by his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo as “illusion”. In televised statements, Zarif said Pompeo’s remarks were far from logic and not even worth being answered, according to the official IRNA news agency....

 (Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- Syrian regime forces who seized the southern neighborhoods of Damascus from ISIS on Monday have been looting properties, activists say. Footage circulated by activists showed civilians’ houses had been raided and looted by the regime army and allied...

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Wednesday that the withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria was "not up for discussion", Lebanon's al-Mayadeen TV reported. "Whether Iranian forces or Hezbollah withdraw or stay in Syria is not up for discussion because it's the (business)...

A Syrian graffiti artist is showing his solidarity with the people of the blockaded Gaza Strip by spray-painting pro-Gaza slogans and images on the ruins of opposition-held Idlib.  Aziz al-Asmar, 35, from Idlib’s Binnish district, spray-paints his art on structures that have been...