The Saudi-led coalition expressed deep regret over a decision by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to evacuate staff from northern Yemen and said it was trying to set up "urgent meetings" with the medical aid group. MSF said on Thursday it was evacuating its staff from six hospitals in northern...
Reporting by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- When refugees arrive to Europe, they are treated according to refugee convention, they get protection and receive support, which slightly differs from country to another. In regard to Syrian refugees in Europe, Eqtsad tried to have an idea about the...
Russia said on Thursday it would support a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo, a move the U.N. Syria envoy said would allow aid to reach besieged areas soon, as long as all sides respect the temporary truce. As pictures of a dazed child pulled from the rubble in heavily bombarded rebel-held...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces on Thursday have thwarted regime and allied militias' attack on the southern countryside of Aleppo as aerial campaign extends on the eastern neighborhoods of stricken city, local reporter said. Early Thursday, regime militants waged major offensive to...
His face bloodied and completely covered in dust, the little boy sits quietly, staring ahead, dazed and shocked after an apparent air strike in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Alone in an ambulance, the boy - identified by doctors as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh - tries to wipe the blood off his...
Syrian government warplanes bombed Kurdish-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasaka on Thursday for the first time in the five-year-old civil war, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and a monitoring group said. People's Protection Units (YPG) spokesman Redur Xelil said the air strikes had hit...
Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl) The Health Directorate in Latakia announced that over 10 people have the Guillain-Barre syndrome in the city of Latakia, and the medical sources suggest they were infected while inside hospitals, because of the spread of epidemics in hospitals due to a lack of...
By Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman al-Wasl)- Following the arrows that rained on to him as a result of a report published by Zaman al-Wasl where it indicated that he accepts Bashar al-Assad’s presence in the transitional period, the deputy head of the coalition Mouaffa Nyrabia was content...
Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad) In the past few days, various media sources and social media sites circulated news about a series of new decisions to organize the process of educating Syrians in Turkey concerned with the temporary education centers overseen by the Turkish Ministry of...
(BBC)- Nearly 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons. Amnesty says its document includes interviews with 65 "torture survivors", who have described appalling abuse in jails and detention centres....
Turkey began freeing 38,000 prisoners on Wednesday, after announcing a penal reform that will make space for tens of thousands of suspects rounded up over last month's attempted coup. The reform was one of a series of measures outlined on Wednesday in two decrees under a state of emergency...
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday defended a leaked government report alleging Turkey was a hub for Islamist groups, a charge that has further strained tensions with Ankara, a key partner in efforts to stem mass migration. Turkey and Germany have had a series of disputes...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel shelling in Syria's battered northern city of Aleppo killed 12 people including a child Wednesday, state media said. State television announced "12 martyrs including a child and several wounded after terrorists shelled the Salaheddin" district in the city's...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people have been killed and 30 more have been wounded in vacuum missile attack targeted northern Idlib city, local activists said on Wednesday. The deadly missile attack rocked the city's center reducing whole blocks to rubble. Regime air force backed by Russian...
Turkish police have detained at least 24 people working for a pro-Kurdish newspaper since it was banned this week on suspicion of supporting Kurdish militants, the newspaper said. The detentions bring the number of imprisoned Turkish media workers to 99, based on figures from the European...
(The Daily Star)- The Lebanese Army said Wednesday that four Syrian nationals who had arrested for their alleged links to militant groups were referred to the judiciary. An army statement said Abdallah Muhammad Zakariya, Abdel Halim Abdel Hakim Bakkar, Ahmad Abdel Hamid Shehadeh and Muhammad...
Reporting by Abdul Hafiz al-Holani (Zaman al-Wasl) “The evil of a country where one has no friend, and evil is a human gaining what deafens” with this famous line of poetry for his beloved al-Mutanabbi, the refugee Mohammad Ismail Rahma begins explaining how he feels now as he prepares his...
Russia used an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes in Syria for a second day running Wednesday, rejecting U.S. suggestions its co-operation with Tehran might violate a U.N. resolution. Russia's Defense Ministry said that SU-34 fighter bombers flying from Iran's Hamadan air base had struck...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have destroyed two hospitals in the town of Daret Azza in northern Aleppo province late on Tuesday, waging more than 30 air strikes, the town's media center said. Most medical facilities in the the town were rocked by Regime and Russia...
(Zaman Al Wasl) Syrian resistance factions in Qudsaya in Damascus suburb took control of the Siyast checkpoint controlled by the regime forces Tuesday following severe clashes which led to liberating the checkpoint and cutting off the main road connecting to Qudsaya’s suburb. Field sources and...
