Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland Thursday strongly condemned the escalating situation unfolding in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta district, a besieged suburb of Damascus. At least 250 civilians were reportedly killed there within the last three days. In a statement, Freeland...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia commander in Aleppo said the group's fighters had gone to nearby Afrin region to help repel a Turkish assault and as a result, the Syrian government had regained control over Kurdish-held districts in Aleppo. "We in Aleppo have gone to the Afrin canton. As...

United Nations, United States: Russia Thursday said there was no agreement at the UN Security Council on a 30-day ceasefire for Syria and presented amendments to a draft resolution that would allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians from besieged Eastern Ghouta. The Security...

The governor of Nigeria's Yobe state told locals in the village of Dapchi Thursday that 76 of their schoolgirls who were reported to have been rescued from militant Boko Haram kidnappers were in fact still missing. The state government Wednesday said the schoolgirls had been rescued by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 20 people in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor in the past 48 hours, targeting the last ISIS-held town near the Iraqi border, local activists and ISIS news agency reported Thursday. Amaq agency said the strikes in support...

The U.N. Security Council should be convinced of the need for a ceasefire in the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, where at least 370 people have reportedly been killed, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis said Thursday. "After all the images that came out of...

Turkey's opposition said Thursday new electoral regulations proposed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party and its nationalist allies could open the door to fraud and jeopardize the fairness of 2019 elections. Under a draft law submitted to parliament Wednesday, security...

Over 200 people Thursday protested outside the Russian consulate in Istanbul against the deadly assault on Syria's rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta. More than 350 civilians have been killed in the five-day-old blitz by the Syrian regime led by President Bashar Assad in the...

Moscow Thursday said fighters in Syria's rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta had rejected Russia's offer to evacuate peacefully and were using civilians there as human shields. The U.S., rights groups and pro-government Syrian press have said Russia is taking part in air strikes that...

An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death and seven others to up to life in prison on terrorism-related charges. Thursday's verdict, reported by the state-run MENA news agency, can be appealed. Out of the 28 on trial, only 12 are in custody while the others - 16...

A four-year-old girl was killed in an airstrike that targeted an orphanage in Syria’s besieged Eastern Ghouta district, a suburb of Damascus, Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said Thursday. The orphanage, established in early 2017, is jointly run by the IHH and the...

The death toll for five days of bombardment by the Syrian regime and its allies on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta passed the 400 mark Thursday, a monitor said. "Five days of air strikes and intense artillery fire by the regime and its Russian ally have killed 403 civilians,...

At least 250 civilians have reportedly been killed in Syria’s regime-besieged Eastern Ghouta district, a suburb of Damascus, within the last three days. Since Tuesday, regime forces have stepped up attacks on Eastern Ghouta using barrel bombs, artillery fire and other types of weapons,...

Russia is ready to consider a 30-day ceasefire in Syria but only if it does not cover Daesh (ISIS), Nusra Front and other groups "who are shelling residential quarters of Damascus", Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted Thursday as saying. Lavrov's comments, made during a visit to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Schools in the opposition-held areas of Daraa have been closed on Thursday as regime forces renewed ground shelling on the southern province. Mohamed al-Wadi, Head of Education Directorate, said the suspension of teaching process was due to concerns over students...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian pioneer and University student was killed in Damascus as family denied that their son has passed away due to random cross-fire, local activists said Thursday. Ahmed Talal Fares, from central Homs city, was preparing his graduation project in Mechanical...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday condemned the killing of civilians in Syria as a massacre, adding that Berlin would reach out to Russia in its efforts to stop the violence. "What we currently see, the dreadful events in Syria, a regime fighting not against...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Thursday liberated one more village from YPG/PKK-Daesh terrorists as part of an ongoing operation in Afrin, northwestern Syria. Tal Dilor village of Jinderes district in Afrin’s southwest was cleared of terrorists, according to Anadolu...

Almost anything is more interesting than the massacre of civilians in Syria. Just look at today’s front pages. The Guardian leads on the slaughter of unarmed residents in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta, but for the rest it’s a mix of continuing scandals in international aid charities,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led Kurdish militias have expelled displaced people from the government buildings and utilities in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, residents told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The move of the Syrian Democratic Forces, mostly formed of powerful YPG...