President Bashar al-Assad said he would recover areas of Syria held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that U.S. forces should learn the lesson of Iraq and leave the country. In an interview with Russia Today, Assad also said the government had "started now opening doors...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Military Intelligence transferred Zaman Al Wasl reporter Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani to the infamous prison of Defense Army after a week of his arrest from a Syrian refugee camp in the border town of Arsal, sources said. Al-Houlani, 40, was arrested by the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rescue workers have retrieved 15 bodies trapped under mounds of debris in the Yarmouk Palestinian Camp south of the capital, local activists said Wednesday. Bodies of a mother and her four children were retrieved after lifting heavy slabs of concrete in search of...

Displaced from her home in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, Umaima al-Sheikh and her family sought refuge in an abandoned house across the country in Afrin. The traditionally Kurdish town had been emptied of its residents just weeks earlier, after a brutal Turkish-led offensive forced tens of...