Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given a suggestion to build a city in northern Syria for refugees fleeing the war-torn country. In his address at an award ceremony in Istanbul Friday, Erdogan called on the international community to join hands with the Syrian refugees. "Let's build...

A senior official of a Syrian opposition group in Paris has objected to a resumption of the Geneva peace talks due to take place on March 9, citing unfavorable conditions. Following his meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and German...

  The Syrian opposition said on Friday the government was mobilizing forces on many fronts despite an agreement to cease hostilities, and cast doubt on whether peace talks planned for next week would take place. As rockets fired by government forces were reported to hit near...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters stormed early on Friday Nusra Front's checkpoints in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp southern Damascus, a day after both sides agreed on provisional ceasefire deal and made a prisoner swap, sources said. ISIS' surprise attack on Nusra Front targeted...

Warplanes struck twice Friday on the outskirts of Syria's Douma, northeast of Damascus, the first raids there since a cessation of hostilities agreement went into effect, activists said. Rami Abdulrahman from the Britain-based the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the...

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the death of 3-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi and four other people. Anadolu Agency said Friday the court convicted the two of human trafficking but acquitted them...

A record 1.25 million asylum seekers arrived in the European Union in 2015, more than double the figure from the previous year, official figures showed on Friday. The Eurostat statistics agency said Syrians were the largest group at nearly 363,000 followed by 178,200 Afghans and 121,500 Iraqis.

 Zaman Al Wasl (Photos)- Thousands of Syrians in rebel-held areas went to streets on Friday in a move recalling the memorable peaceful protests, rising revolution flags and chanting freedom slogans. Activists have circulated online photos for 104 demonstrations from over 100 city, town and...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- Many Syrian businessmen and factories' managers and owners have moved to Egypt, especially those who work kids clothing industry, which gained fame for their high quality. Manufacturers aim to reach to internationally recognized high...

Russian and Syrian regime forces have deliberately struck hospitals and medical facilities in Aleppo as they advance on the north Syrian town, according to Amnesty International. The human rights body said it had gathered evidence of at least six deliberate attacks on hospitals and clinics in...

In the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, children are outside playing and many people are going to the shops safely for the first time in months thanks to a partial halt to the war that is providing relief even if most doubt that peace will take hold. "Look at the markets. Where...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a rare prisoner swap deal, al-Qaeda Syria's branch the Nusra Front and the Islamic State group have reached their own agreement of 'cessation of hostilities' in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The deal came after...

France and Britain called on the Syrian government and its Russian ally to immediately end attacks on Western-backed rebels, saying all sides had to fully implement a cessation of hostilities deal and allow unfettered access to besieged areas. "We ask all sides that are committing human rights...

Syria's electricity supply was gradually returning after it was cut across the country on Thursday and Internet connections were briefly disrupted, state media said. SANA news agency quoted the electricity minister saying that the network was returning and would be restored to...

A woman suspected of beheading a child in her care before brandishing the severed head outside a Moscow metro station has said she acted to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria. In video footage posted online on Thursday and circulated by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition staged deadly air strikes on the ISIS-held Raqqa city on Wednesday, killing and wounding at least 70 people as the Kurdish-led forces wage major offensive on the radical group northeast the de-facto capital, local activists said. Pro-ISIS news...

Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they were under fierce government attack near the Turkish border despite a cessation of hostilities agreement and a representative cast doubt on whether U.N.-backed peace talks would go ahead on March 9 as planned. The agreement drawn up by the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists in northeastern Hasaka province said tens of people have been killed, tortured, displaced and looted by the Powerful Kurdish PYD militia. Two days ago,  three people from the same family were killed and many wounded due to a...

Macedonia on Wednesday allowed around 250 migrants to cross its border with Greece, as 10,000 more were left waiting in miserable conditions, Greek officials and AFP reporters at the scene said. Around 170 people were allowed to pass overnight and additional small groups were accepted...

Opposition activists say a car bomb in southern Syria has killed at least 18 rebels including the commander of a U.S.-backed armed opposition group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the car bomb exploded Wednesday afternoon in the southern village of Asheh, in Quneitra...