(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rigged motorcycle exploded in northeastern Hasakah province, killing one person and wounding four, Kurdish security said Tuesday.   The domestic Asayish forces in the Kurdish-held areas said the blast took place in the village of al-Hamar in the eastern...

During Syrian government bombing campaigns, 930 healthcare workers have died, and a further 3,329 were arrested in the last ten years of civil war, according to the Violet Organisation. The most recent bombing of a hospital by the Syrian regime was on March 21 this year, when Atarib Hospital in...

A decade of war in Syria has left nearly half a million people dead, a war monitor said Tuesday, in a new toll that includes 100,000 recently confirmed deaths. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the conflict has claimed 494,438 lives since it erupted in 2011 with...

For decades, Syria’s Republican Guard forces have been the last frontline of defence for the ruling Assad family in Damascus.  The Republican Guard forces, or the Presidential Guard, were founded in the early 1970s by Hafez al-Assad, as the first shield of his regime in...