Kurdish party leader Abdullah Ocalan on Thursday urged fighters to lay down their arms and to dissolve the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group that he founded. Here are five key dates in the history of Ocalan and the PKK, which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state...

Israel released about 600 prisoners overnight, including the longest-serving prisoner and a man convicted of killing an American peace activist, in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held by Hamas. They were supposed to have been released last weekend after Hamas freed six living hostages....

Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday recent Israeli strikes targeting Syria, accusing it of attempting to destabilize the situation in the country. The Kingdom’s foreign ministry issued a statement on X saying that Israel was attempting “to destabilize [Syria’s] security and stability in...

As part of efforts to normalize relations between Washington and Moscow, a Russian delegation arrived at the US Consulate General residence in Istanbul for a meeting to discuss operation of their respective embassies. The Russian delegation reached the residence in Istanbul at 09.50 a.m. local...

Syrians ranked third in the list of foreign brides and grooms in Turkey, according to the Turkish Statistical Authority's announcement of marriage and divorce data for the year 2024. According to the data, the number of couples who got married in 2024 reached 568,395, while the number of...

Palestinians released from Israel's Ofer Prison arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Thursday.​​​​​​​ An Anadolu correspondent said a bus carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners accompanied by teams from the International Red Cross arrived at the Cultural Palace, where...

The Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Kelly Clements, confirmed that the situation in Syria presents opportunities, but it also faces challenges, as refugees continue to return from neighboring countries, but they are also internally displaced within Syria. This came in a special...

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Wednesday that it will hand over the remains of four Israeli captives on Thursday in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of prisoners. “The resistance will hand over the bodies of four Israeli captives on Thursday, in parallel with Israel’s...

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman on Wednesday on his third foreign visit since ousting Bashar al-Assad. King Abdullah II greeted al-Sharaa at Amman’s Marka airport, the royal court said in a statement. The two leaders then headed to Raghadan Palace...

The Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources called on oil companies that were operating in Syria to return, welcoming the suspension of European sanctions, the Syrian News Agency reported on Wednesday. Ghiath Diab said, "We welcome the European Union's decision to lift sanctions on the energy...

At least five Israeli airstrikes pounded the city of Al-Kiswah, south of the capital, and the countryside of Daraa, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes targeting military sites belonging to the First Division in the Al-Kiswah area...

Final statement of the Syrian National Dialogue Conference: 1- Preserving the unity of the Syrian Arab Republic, its sovereignty over all its territories, and rejecting any form of fragmentation and division, or giving up any part of the homeland. 2- Condemning the Israeli incursion into...

Syrian Civil Defense teams picked up on Tuesday the remains of more than 20 unidentified bodies from the basement of a residential building in the town of al-Sbeinah of Damascus countryside. “After receiving information from civilians and activists about the presence of human skeletal...

Hundreds gathered in the southern city of Sweida on Tuesday to denounce the speech of the Israeli occupation government's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to confirm the rejection of any separatist projects, the Sweida 24 network said. The city of Sweida witnessed demonstrations...

Syria’s President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said he plans to establish a transitional justice committee, in a speech Tuesday after the opening of a national dialogue conference. Al-Sharaa, whose group “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” toppled longtime president Bashar al-Assad in December, also emphasized the...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that his country’s military is preparing to occupy the Gaza Strip under the leadership of the newly appointed Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, in coordination with US President Donald Trump’s administration. Smotrich made the remarks during a...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expressed concern Monday over the situation in the occupied West Bank. "The International Committee of the Red Cross is deeply concerned with the impact of ongoing security operations on the civilian population in Jenin and Tulkarem, Tubas and...

The Israeli army said on Tuesday an earlier report of suspected aerial targets in the Golan Heights area was the result of false identification. The army earlier said it had intercepted a suspected target. It said the incident had ended and was under investigation.

Within the Zaman Alwasl initiative to reveal the fate of Syrian detainees. You can view this file which includes 1000 names of detainees who were killed under torture in Assad's prisons between 2014 - 2017 You can also search in the martyrs search engine which includes 13,000 Click...

President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with a delegation from Sweida on Monday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made statements claiming to protect the Druze majority in the southern province, and that he would not allow the presence of the new army in the area overlooking the...