More than 800 health workers have died in "acts of war crimes" in Syria since 2011, in hospital bombings, shootings, torture and executions perpetrated mainly by government-backed forces, researchers said Wednesday. The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, have turned the violent...

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said Syria's rebel delegation was expected in Astana Wednesday night for peace talks which are taking place this week to end the six year civil war. A spokesman for the ministry said the rebels would come for consultations with Russia, Turkey and Iran. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior commander in the military council of al-Bab city said the opposition fighters who are part of the Turkish-led Euphrates Shield Operations would head to Raqqa to fight the Islamic State forces as they close to finishing their military operations in Aleppo. Abu...

Civilians from Syria’s northern city of Aleppo have called for bringing Bashar al-Assad to justice for using chemical weapons against opponents in the war-torn country. Last month, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Assad regime had carried out "coordinated chemical...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 81 regime officers and soldiers from Latakia province have been killed in the last two weeks, local activist said. The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Syrian...

Water has reached a pumping station inside Aleppo and will "soon" go out to residential districts in the city, Syrian state media said on Tuesday. Aleppo's main water supply has been cut off for nearly two months, and residents have largely relied on ground wells or water bought from...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Some Syrians see that the actor Jamal Suleiman is an opposition figure playing a political role while others see him as an opposition figure playing a national role. Zaman al-Wasl met with Suleiman for a candid interview which placed Syria as the eye of...

 A third round of Russian-backed talks on the Syrian war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana Tuesday without armed rebel groups, leaving little hope for a breakthrough in ending the six-year conflict. The talks, sponsored by government allies Russia and Iran and rebel-backer Turkey,...

Syria's air force deliberately bombed water sources in December, a war crime that cut off water for 5.5 million people in and around the capital Damascus, the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Tuesday. The commission said it had found no evidence of...

The top U.N. human rights official called Tuesday for the release of tens of thousands of detainees held in Syria's prisons and said that bringing perpetrators of crimes including torture to court was vital for reaching a lasting peace. "Today in a sense the entire country has become a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abdullah al-Hassan, 52, has lost his life fearing of losing everything he had, sons, properties and money, thanks to the Syrian Democratic Forces. Activist Mostafa Mohammed told Zaman al-Wasl the story of Abdullah al-Hasan who was one of rich men in his area in Raqqa...

The Syrian opposition will not attend peace talks due to start on Tuesday in the Kazakh capital Astana, blaming Russia's unwillingness to end air strikes against civilians in rebel-held areas and its failure to put pressure on the Syrian army to abide by a widely violated ceasefire. Osama...

By Ezzedin Zakkour ( Eqtsad )- Water crisis almost all over Syria is one of the main problems face people, amid continuous interruption and cut off over villages and towns of the countryside Idlib and Aleppo. Even the "humanitarian Electricity Line” was not able to sort out the problem, due...

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces have taken some towns near northern Syria's Manbij, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, marking their latest advance against ISIS militants south of Turkey's border. Erdogan made the comment in a speech broadcast live on television. The...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and missing in Syria's civil war. The war began six years ago on Wednesday with protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government. It has since dragged in...

Syria's future will be decided only after "getting rid of extremists" and achieving political reconciliation, the country's President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Monday. As the war that has ravaged his country approaches its seventh year, Assad told reporters it was "still...

By Abdul Hafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sham Mohammad Arslan, 4-year-old refugee girl in Lebanon, has lost sight in her left eye due to medical mistake by a Lebanese doctor, father says. Sham is in urgent need for a surgery for her eye costs $3000. Such a number that is seldom to find with...

(Los Angeles Times)- As the war in Syria grinds into its seventh year this week, a vital building block of the country’s future has fallen victim to the carnage: the education of its children. About 1.75 million children and youth in Syria are out of school and most are up to six years...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian-brokered evacuation deal reached between rebels of al-Waer neighborhood, last stronghold in central Homs city, and with regime after years of bombing and severe siege, local reporter said Monday. Russia says about 1500 people, including 500 rebel fighters, to leave...

They Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, activists said. The advance was along a road that links the besieged districts of Barzeh, Qaboun and Tishrin...