President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with a delegation from Sweida on Monday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made statements claiming to protect the Druze majority in the southern province, and that he would not allow the presence of the new army in the area overlooking the...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II will meet with Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa in Amman on Wednesday, local media said. The state news agency Petra carried the news, without providing details about Sharaa’s schedule during the visit, the first to the kingdom since the overthrow of the Bashar...

The head of the Syrian Turkmen Associations Federation on Monday hailed the Turkmen community’s centuries-old heritage as one of Syria’s “essential components.” At a press conference held in the Syrian capital Damascus, Tarik Sulo Cevizci described the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime in...

Syria on Monday welcomed an EU decision to suspend "selected" sanctions on the country. "We welcome the EU’s decision to suspend selected sanctions on specific sectors and see this as a step toward alleviating the suffering of our people," Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani wrote on X....

🔴 The official said: With the blessing of Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri and coordination with the coalition countries 🔴 His statement is understood as the beginning of a division and unilateral conditions on the state and the Syrians. In a gathering that included dozens of people from Sweida...

An Israeli television channel quoted two security sources as saying that the Israeli Ministry of War has begun procedures to organize the entry of workers from Syria to work in the Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights. The Kan channel said that the plan includes, in its first phase,...

The Syrian Justice and Empowerment Organization recently launched the "You Are With Us" campaign to draw memorial murals for 10,000 forcibly disappeared persons, to raise awareness of the issue of enforced disappearance, in several provinces starting from Damascus, Daraa and Idlib. Artists...

The EU on Monday announced that it is suspending sanctions on Syria’s energy, transport, and banking sectors to aid the country’s reconstruction after the fall of the Bashar Assad regime. In a statement, the EU said the move aims to “facilitate engagement with Syria, its people, and...

Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper considered that the resumption of the flow of crude oil from the areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria to the areas inside Syria, after it stopped since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, is an indication of the imminent...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that southern Syria must be completely demilitarized, warning that Israel would not accept the presence of the forces of the new Syrian government near its territory. “We will not allow forces from the HTS organization or the new...

Syria’s new authorities will hold a national dialogue conference starting on February 25 to discuss a new path for the nation after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December, two members of its preparatory committee said on Sunday. Foreign capitals will be closely watching the conference...

The US military said Saturday it had killed a senior member of al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch Hurras al-Din, which announced its dissolution last month, in an airstrike in the country’s northwest. It is the latest US strike this year against the group in Syria. Along with its Western and Arab...

As Syria enters a new phase after the fall of the regime, many returnees to the country face legal and administrative challenges due to previous security prosecutions. One such case concerns a Syrian citizen who returned to his country after years of absence, only to find himself banned...

Dozens of Syrian sailors complained about being banned from traveling, which hinders their work and livelihood, due to restrictions dating back to the former Assad regime. In a letter sent by one of the sailors to Zaman al-Wasl, he explained that they work on board commercial ships and...

The town of Al-Ghadfa in the countryside of Maarat al-Numan is suffering from almost complete destruction as a result of the bombing of the ousted regime. The houses have become uninhabitable after their roofs were completely destroyed, while the basic necessities of life have disappeared...

The European Union will suspend sanctions on Syria's banking, energy and transport sectors Monday, diplomats said, in a bid to help the country's reconstruction after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. Syria's new leaders have been clamouring for the West to ease sanctions on the country imposed...

Damascus (AFP) – Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope of reviving their ancient heritage before the community dies out. This week, a small number of Jews living in Damascus, along with others from abroad,...

The security official of the Hurras al-Din organization was killed on Friday as a result of targeting a drone belonging to the US-led international coalition forces in the countryside of Idlib province, near the Syrian-Turkish border. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that Talha...

At least 125 Syrian detainees in Roumieh prison in Lebanon continue their hunger strike for the eleventh consecutive day, in protest against the delay in implementing the announced agreement between the Syrian and Lebanese governments regarding the return of detainees. According to sources...

Two mass graves were exhumed in the town of Aqraba near the Sayyida Zeinab area south of Damascus, one of which contains the remains of at least 15 people, while work is still underway to extract more remains from the second grave.  According to local sources, the area where the two...