A UN official expressed the “gravest" alarm Thursday that a military offensive in northwest Syria is having catastrophic humanitarian consequences due to the “unprecedented number of persons displaced.”  “Airstrikes and shelling continue affecting dozens of communities and...

For years, Ibrahim al-Dabba has been saving up money to make the umrah pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia, which for many Palestinians is the only way to leave the impoverished and isolated Gaza Strip. He registered with a tourism agency back in September, hoping to make...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters on Thursday retook a key northwestern town in Syria that was recently captured by regime forces, and cut the highway linking the capital, Damascus, with the northern city of Aleppo. The development comes days after the regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition factions took two villages and a town from Russian-led regime forces near the strategic highways in northern Idlib province, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. Backed by heavy Turkish artillery fire, the Syrian National Army launched a major...