Russia called on Friday for Washington to restart direct military-to-military cooperation to avert "unintended incidents" near Syria, at a time when U.S. officials say Moscow is building up forces to protect President Bashar al-Assad's government. The United States is leading a...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A newly-freed prisoner from the central prison in Sweida talked about the unbelievable violations inside the prison. Issa, the nickname of the speaker to Zaman al-Wasl, he is a university student from the province of Damascus countryside was arrested by the Syrian...

The governor of Greece's northern Aegean region says authorities have managed to register 20,000 refugees and migrants who had been on the island of Lesbos in the space of three days, significantly easing the overcrowding on the island. Regional governor Christiana Kalogirou told...

Islam Amy fighters have seized control of Tel Kurdi district in the northeastern suburbs of the capital amid intense efforts to liberate detained females from the central prison of Damascus, activists said on Friday. Jaysh al-Islam, the dominant rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, said...

Most vulnerable Syrian refugees do not even have an opportunity to flee to Europe although over 360,000 Syrian refugees in countries neighboring Syria have stopped receiving food assistance amid funding shortage, the U.N. warned. World Food Programme...

Islam Amy fighters have pressed slow advances near the central prison of Damascus amid intense efforts to liberate detained females, including activists, who were put in the custody northeast the capital, rebel commanders said Thursday. Jaysh al-Islam, the dominant rebel group in Eastern Ghouta...

Chancellor Angela Merkel won a hero’s welcome as she visited a Berlin migrant center Thursday, with Syrians cheering and taking selfies as Germany threw open its doors to thousands of refugees. “We are so happy Mrs. Merkel came to see us today,” said a joyful Ramadan Salah, a 35-year-old Syrian...

Dozens of Syrian regime troops and Islamic State fighters have been in fighting around Deir Ezzor air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, activists and monitoring groups said on Thursday. Islamic State used at least two car bombs in its latest attack on the...

At least 6 civilians, including 2 women and 3 children, were killed in the northern countryside of Aleppo city when two ISIS suicide bombers set of two truck bombs in rebel-held towns, local reporter said on Thursday. The first suicide bombing took place in a crowded neighborhood in the town of...

President Barack Obama has directed his administration to prepare to take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, the White House said on Thursday. It is the first specific commitment the United States has made toward increasing its acceptance of refugees from the war-torn...

Sen. John McCain displayed a photo of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian refugee on the Senate floor Wednesday as he urged stronger leadership from President Barack Obama on Syria. McCain, a Republican, stood next to an enlarged, close-up photo of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his 5-year-old...

Western states have provided counter-terrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling Islamic State, the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria. The internal security force, known as...

A car hit three migrants walking along the main road in the dark near the city of Szeged in southern Hungary and one of them died in hospital Thursday, police said in a statement. The other two were seriously injured in the accident near the Roszke migrant camp on the Serbian border. Hundreds...

Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, Reuters said on Thursday, Islamic State used at least two car bombs in its latest...

A Turkish soldier was shot dead at the border with Syria in southern Turkey by an unidentified assailant who opened fire from Syrian territory, the Dogan news agency reported on Thursday. The shooting occurred in the Reyhanli district of Turkey's Hatay province. Dogan gave no...

ISIS claims to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage and is demanding ransom for their release. The extremist group posted pictures of the two men wearing yellow prison outfits in the latest issue of its online magazine Dabiq, which was released Wednesday. It identifies...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that the United States was "committed to" taking in more of the Syrian refugees fleeing war in their country. Kerry spoke to reporters after meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including one that addressed the migrant crisis in...

For the Muslim community in Reyaad Khan's neighborhood of Cardiff in Wales, this week's news he had been killed by Britain in a drone strike in Syria was just the latest in a series of shocks about radicals in their midst. Three years ago, two brothers from the same area, Riverside, were...

The U.S.-led coalition targeted Islamic State with 17 air strikes in Syria and Iraq on Tuesday, including one that destroyed the militant group's operating base near Ramadi that was a key supply hub, according to the U.S. military. That strike, which hit a weapons and explosives storage...

(Interview by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Coalition’s ambassador to France Monzer Makhous talked to Zaman al-Wasl about the Syrian refugees crisis in Europe, saying that two basic criteria rule the distribution of refugees to European countries, the first is the...