Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. The crush “during a civilian event at the mosque... resulted in the death of three people,” Governor Maher Marwan told SANA. The White...

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by airstrikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria’s northern Manbij region, a war monitor said. The latest reported fighting comes despite the United States saying Wednesday that it was working to address...

The UN on Wednesday reported severe Israeli restrictions on aid efforts in Gaza, where civilians are enduring "horrific levels of violence" amid ongoing attacks. "Our colleagues from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report that Palestinian civilians endure...

A former detainee by the Syrian Military Intelligence exclusively confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that the American journalist and former Marine Corps officer Austin Tice was detained in the cell next to him on December 13, 2018, about six years since his arrest on August 13, 2012. The former...