(Zaman Al Wasl)- The fourth batch of refugees will return next week to Syria from the Lebanese border town of Arsal, topping the number of voluntarily returned refugees to 2600, Zaman al-Wasl report said. The new batch of refugees is due to enter Syria as the evacuation procedures...

Turkey’s Assyrian community has welcomed a new regulation allowing free allocation of places of worship such as synagogues, churches, and monasteries to minority foundations. Yilmaz Hicbezmez, deputy head of an association linked to the Mor Hananyo Monastery -- also known as the...

A Syrian Kurdish official is in Damascus this week for talks with Syrian regime officials at the head of a delegation including members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an official said, their first declared visit to the capital. The visit points to moves by the Kurdish-led...

Russia Friday urged world powers to help Syria's economic recovery and the return of refugees as its Damascus ally pressed on with a campaign to re-take territory in the seven-year war. Russian Deputy Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky appealed for an end to unilateral sanctions against Syria...