(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people, 6 Syrians and 9 Iraqi displaced, were killed Friday in the the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on a mosque in eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to local sources. The attack followed Friday prayers in the Daesh-held town of Al-Susah, activist Taj...

Scores of members of Syria’s White Helmets civil defense agency have left Jordan to western countries, according to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry. “A total of 279 civil defense volunteers have left the kingdom,” the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Some 835 Syrian refugees have registered with Lebanese General Security to return to their home country Monday, a source from the security agency told The Daily Star. About 5,000 refugees have gone home from Lebanon this year; most of the refugees are from the western...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended...