Desperate to escape Syria’s terrors, Ammar Maarawi bolted. In early 2016, he paid smugglers and endured a dangerous sea crossing to Greece and an exhausting journey by train, bus and foot through Europe. Two years later, the 36-year-old is back home in Aleppo. He returned last summer –...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Several plastic mannequins appeared on window shops in the town of Atareb in northern Aleppo province. The faces were marked by red and blue to show bruises.  They wrote statements next to the mannequins encouraging men to treat women...

 Bombardment by the Syrian regime killed at least 11 civilians Friday in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, east of Damascus, a monitoring group reported. The bloodshed came a day after the latest suspected chlorine attack by the regime of President Bashar Assad on Ghouta, which...

The UN has been unable to make aid deliveries to Syrians for two months, with President Bashar al-Assad withholding approval, a UN adviser said on Thursday. Aid conveys require authorisation from the regime and security guarantees from armed groups before crossing into besieged...

Syria's Kurds Friday accused Turkey-backed rebels fighting them of mutilating then filming the body of one of their female fighters after a video appeared of her corpse. Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have since Jan. 20 pressed an offensive against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in...

A Syrian airstrike has destroyed a hospital built inside an underground cave, activists said Thursday, as regime forces continue to pound opposition areas. Five missiles struck the medical centre built 20 metres underground, putting the hospital out of service. Buried deep...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 child fighters killed by Syrian rebels while they were fighting along with the regime forces in January, sources said. Shortage in manpower among the regime forces pushed Bashar al-Assad to recruit children and women in loyal areas to defend his palace...

Turkish authorities Friday ordered the detention of 13 people for supporting the national medical association online, the newspaper Hurriyet reported, after the organization publicly opposed a military campaign in Syria. A prosecutor this week ordered the detention of 11 senior...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 displaced people have burned to death in airstrikes on their van while they were fleeing regime bombardment on rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo, Civil Defense agency said on Friday.  The White Helmets rescuing group said the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20 regime troops from the coastal province of Tartus have been killed in the last two weeks, according to pro-regime social media activists. The death toll included 2 officers and Brigadier General.    Activists also reported death of...

Four people were injured Thursday after rockets fired from Syria hit the Turkish border province of Kilis, the governor said. Two rockets hit a restaurant and a house in the center of Kilis on the 13th day of Turkey's offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia in the northern...

Intense battles raged Thursday as Kurdish fighters attempted to repel a new advance by Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters on their encircled enclave in northwestern Syria. Meanwhile, Syrian government forces pushed into Idlib province, an opposition stronghold nearby,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 97 regime troops from central Homs province were killed in January by ISIS, rebels and former al-Qaeda group in Syria, according to local activists. The death toll included 14 officers killed in the northern provinces of Idlib and Hama, eastern Homs...

A United Nations humanitarian task force has been unable to make deliveries to desperate Syrians for the past two months as President Bashar Assad's government has withheld approval for aid convoys, the U.N. humanitarian adviser said Thursday. Before they can move into besieged...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front, key Free Syrian Army unit, has launched major attack on an ISIS affiliate based near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, local activists said on Thursday.  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front, key Free Syrian Army unit, has launched major attack on an...

Turkish and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces cleared one more village of PYD/PKK terrorists on Thursday during their counterterrorism operation in Afrin, Syria, Turkish security sources told Anadolu Agency. Liberating the village of Ali Kar, located in the northern Bulbul district,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people, including 2 children, were killed and dozen more wounded in renewed airstrikes on Douma, the key of town of the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, Civil Defense agency said Thursday. 3 civilians killed and many injured, including suffocation cases...

The Trump administration is expected to let nearly 7,000 Syrians remain in the United States for another 18 months but won't let more Syrian citizens apply for the special protection program, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Under a humanitarian program known as "Temporary Protected...

 For 3,000 years, the lion sculptures of Syria’s Ain Dara stood as testaments to the Iron Age. But as Turkish bombardment pounds the region, they have little left but their paws. Syrian and Kurdish authorities have blamed the damage squarely on Ankara’s nearly two-week offensive on...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hafez al-Assad has spread a propaganda which has dominated the Syrian arena for decades of the oppression of the Alawites and their excessive marginalization, before Hafez came to power and leadership, and built for them a "glory and a great...