Humanitarian groups could begin delivering much-needed aid in three besieged Syrian towns as early as Sunday, spokesmen said on Friday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said they were preparing convoys packed with food and...

Turkey introduced visa requirements for Syrians arriving by air and sea on Friday, part of efforts to stem the flow of illegal migrants to Europe, forcing hundreds of Syrians to return to Damascus, officials said. Some 400 Syrians transiting through Beirut were unable to board two...

Syrian refugee Hussein Hammoud is banking on a broom handle to protect his 12 children from the winter cold. He is using one to prop up the flimsy shelter that has already collapsed once this year under the weight of snow in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. "The snow brought down the tent on our...

An Islamic State militant carried out a public "execution" of his mother because she asked him to leave the group, activists say. Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother, Lena al-Qasem, 45, outside the post office in Raqqa, Syria, eyewitnesses said. Raqqa has served as IS' de facto capital...

The European Union on Friday welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's decision to allow humanitarian access to the town of Madaya, and called for a halt to all attacks on civilians in the conflict, ahead of peace talks later this month. The war in Syria has killed an estimated...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nihad Abed, a Syrian young man has chosen to sit outside in very cold snowing weather in his underwear holding the revolution’s flag, to protest against siege in Madaya. The temperature was almost minus 10, but he expressed to Zaman Al Wasl that he...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday Germany must have a "fundamental" debate about how to integrate newcomers, as police identified 16 people suspected of a shocking rash of sexual assaults blamed on migrants. As outrage grew over the assaults, which included two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish police, in statement issued Thursday, said it had arrested two men who involved in the assassination of Syrian journalist Naji al-Jerf ten days ago in Gaziantep, the Turkish border town with Syria. The statement which did not disclose the criminals' nationality or...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted Thursday an incursion attempt by Syria regime forces into al-Manshiya neighborhood in the southern Daraa city, Revolution Local Committees said. Rebels were able to push army troops back despite the surprise ground and aerial attack that started early...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Thursday have staged air strikes on Eastern Ghouta towns near Damascus, killing at least 21 people, including children,  and wounding about 140, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Local activists said 12 people have been killed in the stricken...

A predominantly Arab faction of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Thursday that it has started a ground operation to cross into the west of the Euphrates River, a move strongly opposed by Turkey. The Revolutionary Army group said via Twitter that it had started a ground operation to take...

Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has reportedly been wounded in an air strike in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a military statement said on Thursday. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. "There are confirmed reports that the so-called terrorist...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes staged new strikes on Zamalka, an eastern suburb of Damascus, killing at least 6 people, including children,  and wounding 50, local activists said Thursday, in less than 24 hours since 10 people lost their lives in the aerial bombing on Zamalka....

(BBC)- The Syrian government has agreed to allow aid into the besieged rebel-held village of Madaya, the UN says, amid reports of residents starving to death. The UN humanitarian co-ordinator said it was planning to deliver humanitarian assistance "in the coming days". Aid agencies...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 400 fighters from al-Sheitat tribe have joined the U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS in northern Syria, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The fighters and their families who were living in the PYD-held town of Shadbag have moved to Tal Abyad town in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman AL Wasl)- Amna and Amina, the two Syrian girls from Qusayr in Homs, live now in Arsal, the Lebanese border town, who devoted their lives to help their blind and disabled father, have lost their father in Christmas day, even before receiving the fund they were...

The Obama administration has a vision for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's departure. Even if it works, the president won't be around to see the plan through. An internal U.S. timeline for a best-case Syrian political transition, obtained by The Associated Press, sets a date of March...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish police on Wednesday have arrested seven Syrian people said they were involved in the assassination of Syrian journalist Naji al-Jerf ten days ago, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Turkish police is due to hold press conference to stand on the crime clues on Thursday....

Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of the six-month-old siege imposed  on the town of Madaya northwest of  Damascus has risen to 31, local activists and medics said Wednesday. Of 31 deaths in Madaya in recent weeks, 10 were attributed to a lack of food and the rest were either shot...