Childhood malnutrition levels in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, which has been under government siege since 2013, are at the highest levels recorded in the country since its six-year war began, the UN said on Wednesday. The UN children's agency UNICEF said a November survey in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Several executives of the French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge were investigated on Wednesday by the SNDJ (judicial customs) on financial links to extremist groups in Syria, including Daesh (ISIS), France Inter Radio said. Some of them have already...

Dozens of mortar bombs landed on the last major rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, a war monitor and a witness said on Wednesday, despite a 48 hour truce proposed by Russia to coincide with the start of peace talks in Geneva. After a relatively calm morning,...

Russia's ambassador to the United Nations accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Wednesday of trying to partition the country by setting up local governing bodies in areas seized from Daesh (ISIS), Russian news agencies reported. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia was cited as...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by a British far-right group. One of them purports to show a Muslim beating up a Dutch boy on crutches. Another is described as showing an Islamist mob pushing a teenager of a rooftop. The third...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists based in the border town of Albu Kamal have documented death of 103 civilians in seven days of heavy bombing even after the regime claims of taking the key town in eastern Deir Ezzor province on November 19. The regime army and its allies said ten days ago...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Abu Nazmi, a Turkish old man, has been trapped with about 600,000 people in Eastern Ghouta suburbs where no hope their agony may reach an end after seven years of siege. Fawzi Suzar, who spent 25 years of his 83 in shoes making in the embattled district...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. army has re-deployed some of its units in an oil-rich region in the northeastern province of Hasaka, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Muhannad al-Yousef said a unit of the U.S. army has been moved from al-Shaddadi town in the southern countryside to...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)-  Hamza, 3-year-old, is a victim of the Syrian regime siege on Eastern Ghouta’s siege which has been since 2013. The child boy, who lost his parents in the regime bombing, has been suffering malnutrition with thousands more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine militiamen loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed  on Tuesday  in clashes with ISIS in the Syrian desert, local activists said. Despite the victory declaration against the extremist group in Syria, ISIS militants still control swaths of territory in the...

Turkey said on Tuesday it could expand its military mission in Syria to two other provinces, potentially bringing its forces into confrontation with U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers its enemies. Turkish troops have operated an “observation mission” in rebel-held...

Shaven-headed former jihadists filled a classroom in northern Syria as a Muslim cleric taught them a more moderate form of Islam than the version they had imposed in Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Their class was in a new rehabilitation center for Islamic State members set...

Media activists opposed to the Syrian government have documented much of the worst of the war in Syria. However, as President Bashar al-Assad regains control of opposition-held territory, these civilian journalists fear they will have no place in Syria’s future. “It’s not like I did not...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee family of 5 was found in a refugee shelter in the Asian side of Istanbul in Turkey tafter hree days of displacement and losing contact with realtives. The family, consisting of a father, mother and four children, experienced a harsh detention...

When the Syrian uprising began in 2011, Karam al-Masri was a young law student in Aleppo. His schoolteacher parents had raised him to be an engaged citizen, so Masri followed anti-Assad regime protesters into the streets, and posted to Facebook the video footage he captured on his old Nokia...

Assad regime agreed Tuesday to a ceasefire in opposition-held Eastern Ghouta, following days of heavy bombardment, the United Nations envoy to the war-ravaged country said. "I was just informed by the Russians today at the P5 meeting that the Russians have proposed and the government...

A Syrian government delegation to U.N.-backed peace talks in Geneva this week has not yet left Damascus and may announce on Tuesday whether it will participate, the pro-Damascus Syrian newspaper al-Watan said. United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Monday that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 regime soldiers were killed and wounded when a group of ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up in a military checkpoint in the desert town of Sukhna east of Homs province, the state news agency SANA said on Monday. The attack came day after 17 troops...

The Pentagon said on Monday it was reviewing “adjustments” in arms for the Syrian Kurdish forces that have angered Turkey, but it stopped short of halting weapons transfers, suggesting such decisions would be based on battlefield requirements. Turkey said on Friday U.S. President Donald...

Existing route known as 'Israel Trail' was ranked by National Geographic magazine as one of world's top 20 hikes in 2012 The Israeli government on Sunday agreed to fund the creation of a hiking trail through the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin...