Flag carrier Turkish Airlines on Thursday landed its first Istanbul-Damascus flight since 2012, ending a 13-year hiatus that was due to Syria's civil war. Many Syrians voiced joy at returning to their homeland after years of exile. Some were seen carrying flags from December’s Syrian...

After a month of painstaking work on dozens of pieces of information and testimonies, it became clear that the file of children of detainees, martyrs and missing persons is more complicated than it appears on the surface. The Zaman al-Wasl team documented many names, most notably:...

Despite SOS Children's Villages denying its involvement in any suspicious activities in coordination with the Syrian intelligence services, documents, photos of which were obtained by Zaman al-Wasl, revealed that dozens of children of detainees in the Air Force Intelligence in Damascus were...

Syria’s top diplomat said Wednesday that lifting economic sanctions imposed during the rule of ousted president Bashar al-Assad was “key” to restoring stability in the war-torn country. For weeks, Syria’s new authorities have been lobbying Western powers to scrap restrictions that...