(Zaman Al Wasl)- Crop fires have burned more than 300 hectares in northeastern Syria, including areas under Turkish army control, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. A massive fire flared up early Friday in an array of villages in Turkish-held Ras al-Ayn region north of Hasakah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 268,000 displaced people have returned to their homes in northern Idlib province since a Russian-brokered ceasefire reached on March 6, Syria’s Response Coordination Group said  Friday. The local monitoring group has warned that constant ceasefire...

Israeli planes made another round of airstrikes in Syria last week, targeting Iranian militia bases in the east and an alleged chemical weapons research laboratory in Aleppo province. The number of Israeli strikes in Syria over the past nine years is estimated to be in the hundreds, but the...

Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned Friday after less than a month on the job over what an official said was "incompatibility" with President Jair Bolsonaro's approach to fighting the country's spiralling coronavirus crisis. Teich, a 62-year-old oncologist, joined the far-right...