Lawyer Firas al-Shoufi proposed the idea of Sweida's independence during an interview on Al-Mashhad TV, raising questions that go beyond constitutional or sectarian debate and touch on the core of the complex geopolitical reality in the region. While al-Shoufi presents his vision of a "state"...

More than 410,00 Syrians who fled to Turkey during the rule of Bashar al-Assad have returned home since he was overthrown in December, the government announced Thursday. Turkey’s interior ministry said 411,649 Syrians had so far returned, the rate picking up in recent weeks, with the...

A UN team of investigators found in a report on Thursday that a major outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal areas in March could constitute to a war crime. The report also pointed out at the involvement of all sides in these violations. The incidents invovled loyalists to...

Four civilians were killed and five injured in an explosion at an ammunition depot near the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria, the Syrian Ministry of Health announced Thursday. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the explosion was caused by the detonation of an ammunition depot near the...