Mosques across Syria held prayers calling for rain yesterday, in an effort to ease a drought that recently hit the country. The prayers were said to have been ordered by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The Middle East was hit by wildfires in recent weeks, forcing thousands of people...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Saturday announced their second prison amnesty in the space of five months. The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), said in a statement on Saturday that all prisoners serving time for petty crimes will be...

Wrapped in plastic and white sheets, the ashen corpse of Mohammed Al-Shuhna, a Syrian mercenary allegedly killed in Azerbaijan, is shuttled back to north Syria just two weeks after he had first left. In the grainy mobile phone footage sent to The Independent  by Mohamed’s friends, a...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Six Syrian rebels were killed in Azerbaijan while fighting the Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh region.  Sources confirmed that the slain fighters were buried in different areas of northern Syria, after their bodies were transported by military...