Nearly half a million Syrians have returned to their homes so far this year, including 440,000 internally displaced people and more than 31,000 returning from neighbouring countries, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Most returned to Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus, it said,...

Hamas has begun work on a buffer zone along Gaza's border with Egypt, the movement said Wednesday, as part of an effort to assure Cairo that it's serious about preventing the cross-border flow of weapons and militants. Hamas officials hope the creation of the buffer will lead to an easing of...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- The al-Ibrahim tribe in the Syrian Badiya accused Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham of fueling its tribal differences with the al-Boz Layt clan from the al-Hadidin tribe by accepting bribes from al-Hadadin tribe to cover up their struggle with the al-Ibrahim tribe. A commander in Haya’t...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made secret visit to a research center run by Tehran for developing long-range missiles and chemical weapons in coastal Tartus province during Eid al-Fiter holiday, well-informed sources said. The move comes as White House...