Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two Lebanese security officials said on Friday. The officials said that “many members”...

Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab States announced that he will visit Syria the day after tomorrow, Saturday, at the head of a UN delegation to present a support program for the reconstruction process and the...

Iran’s top diplomat warned Friday against “destructive interference” in Syria’s future and said decisions should lie solely with the country’s people, writing in Chinese state media as he visited Beijing. Abbas Araghchi touched down in the Chinese capital on Friday afternoon, Iranian state...

The Israeli military reported it conducted air strikes on Friday targeting “infrastructure” on the Syrian-Lebanese border near the village of Janta, which it claimed was used to smuggle weapons to the armed group Hezbollah. “Earlier today, the IAF (Israeli air force) struck infrastructure...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that his country had sent 500 tons of flour to Syria. This came in a post on the X platform, in which Zelenskyy explained that they had provided flour with the aim of helping the Syrian people. He added that 500 tons of...

The number of refugees returning to Syria from neighboring countries has exceeded 50,000 since the fall of the Assad regime in December, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, confirmed on Thursday. Grandi said that the number of Syrian refugees returning to...

Four members of the Syrian General Security Forces were killed and six others were injured in an ambush near the town of Talkalakh in the western countryside of Homs, carried out by armed groups outside the law that were previously part of the forces of the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad....

The Arab League regional bloc called on Iran on Thursday not to fuel “strife” in Syria, after the ouster of Tehran ally president Bashar al-Assad ended decades of rule by his clan. Al-Assad’s regime crumbled on December 8 and he fled for Russia, another key backer of his rule, after an...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) concluded its 46th extraordinary ministerial meeting on Thursday, emphasizing the need for economic empowerment of Syria and urging the lifting of international sanctions on the war-torn country. In its final statement, the GCC called on all partners,...

The Military Operations Department announced on Thursday the arrest of Major General Mohammed Kanjo Hassan in the village of Khirbet al-Ma'za in the Tartous countryside. He is responsible for the field courts in the "Sednaya" military prison. Kanjo is accused of playing a major role in...

The new Syrian General Command announced on Thursday the appointment of Anas Khattab as head of the General Intelligence Service, the official news agency reported. Khattab’s appointment comes as part of a series of administrative and security amendments aimed at restructuring security...

The Syrian Ministry of Interior announced today, Thursday, that the Israeli occupation army has withdrawn from the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria, after entering the areas adjacent to the buffer zone last week and violating the 1974 ceasefire agreement. The new government...

On Wednesday, the Central Bank of Syria allowed banks, exchange companies, and money transfer companies to deliver remittances received from outside the country in foreign currency or the Syrian pound, according to the beneficiary's desire. Observers believe that this will help stabilize...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained official lists of the names of more than 500 martyrs who were detained during the first two and a half years of the revolution. The lists included the names of victims of Arab nationalities. The lists included the names of detainees who were over 75 years old, one of...

At least 14 security forces were killed and 10 were injured after being ambushed by remnants of the criminal regime in the countryside of the coastal city of Tartus, the Syrian Interior Minister stated late on Thursday.   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the security...

Activists on social media circulated controversial videos on Wednesday showing a frightening escalation of sectarian rhetoric and incitement to violence by religious figures and gangsters known for their loyalty to the ousted Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and its ally Iran. In one of the...

Homs Police Command imposed a curfew in the central city on Wednesday, starting from 6 pm until 8 am, as part of intensive efforts to enhance security and stability in the city. Military sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the Military Operations Department deployed additional forces from the...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in several areas of Syria after a video circulated showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in the country’s north, a war monitor and witnesses said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said large demonstrations took place in the coastal cities of Tartus...

Dozens of local residents from the village of Suwaysa demonstrated near the buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights in protest against the presence of Israeli forces, which penetrated the center of the village and entered barracks in the middle and around it. Daraa 24 network said that...

The Military Operations Department destroyed on Wednesday huge quantities of narcotics that were seized in the security square in the Kafr Sousa area, in the Syrian capital Damascus, Zaman al-Wasl correspondent reported.. The destroyed materials include about one million Captagon pills,...