Since the Tadamon massacre was uncovered on April 28 by the American New Lines Magazine and The Guardian in which more than 280 civilians were killed in 2013 south of Damascus, many of the victims families contacted Zaman al-Wasl in search of photos or footage help them recognize the...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report, released Friday, that it documented at least 147 arbitrary arrests/detentions in May 2022, including 13 children and four women, noting that the Syrian regime arbitrarily arrested 57 citizens in May and that...

 An eighth round of talks on a new constitution for Syria has concluded with rival parties having made very little headway, the UN mediator said. The Syrian Constitutional Committee was created in September 2019 and first convened a month later. The tentative negotiations are aimed...

In northern Syria, residents are bracing for a new fight. With the world’s attention focused on the war in Ukraine, Turkey’s leader says he’s planning a major military operation to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create a long sought-after buffer zone in the border area. Tensions are...

ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine (AP) — As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won't stay that way for long. Col....

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has met with Finland’s prime minister and spoken to Turkey’s president as he seeks to overcome Turkish resistance to Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. Stoltenberg, who visited Washington this week, tweeted late Friday that he met...

A Syrian mother appealed to the Turkish authorities not to deport her to Syria and to keep her away from her child who holds Turkish citizenship because she did not obtain a work permit as a makeup artist. The refugee "Rania Sharkas" appeared in a video circulated on social media, while she...

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s intelligence chief has said he will visit Syria for talks with Syrian leaders about the fate of a US reporter who went missing in Syria a decade ago. Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said US officials want him to resume efforts to bring home Austin Tice and other Americans...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On Ukraine’s battlefields, the simple act of powering up a cellphone can beckon a rain of deathly skyfall. Artillery radar and remote controls for unmanned aerial vehicles may also invite fiery shrapnel showers. This is electronic warfare, a critical but largely...

BEIRUT (AP) — In northern Syria, residents are bracing for a new fight. With the world’s attention focused on the war in Ukraine, Turkey's leader says he’s planning a major military operation to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters and create a long sought-after buffer zone in the border area....

 A 24 year-old Syrian man believed to be among 43 other Syrian migrants to reached Cyprus on two rubber dinghies has been found dead in waters just off the island’s western coastline, Cypriot police said Thursday. A police spokesman told the Associated Press that the man was likely...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its monthly report released Wednesday that 78 civilians were killed in Syria in May 2022, including 14 children, 11 women, and eight individuals who died as a result of torture. The 14-page report details the death toll of victims...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury's finding that both Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, were defamed in a long-running public dispute capped a lurid six-week trial that also raised questions about whether the two actors can overcome tarnished reputations. The verdict handed down Wednesday...

The former Syrian Minister of Economy, Lamia Assi, called for pricing wheat for farmers according to international prices, with the addition of shipping, insurance and other costs, and not based on a cost study. In a post she wrote on her personal Facebook page, Assi indicated that regime...

Washington's U.N. envoy visited southern Turkey on Wednesday to assess aid deliveries across the border into Syria as the Biden administration gears up for a likely showdown with Russia at the U.N. Security Council over the operation's renewal. The council mandate for the long-running...

BEIRUT (AP) — A rocket struck a residential area in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed opposition fighters on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding others, opposition activist said. Some activists said that the rocket was fired on Tel Abyad by the U.S.-backed...

Turkey's president said Wednesday his country was "entering a new phase" in its goal to create a 30-kilometer (19-mile) buffer zone south of the frontier. The territory is controlled by a Syrian Kurdish administration and Ankara says it has been used to launch attacks on Turkey. Recep...

BERLIN (AP) — A German woman who took her young daughter to Syria, joined the Islamic State group there and allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman was convicted Wednesday of membership in a terrorist organization and other offenses. The state court in Celle said the...

MILAN (AP) — Even as the European Union decided to reduce Russian crude oil imports by 90% by the end of the year, Italy has become the only country in Europe to increase them, an unintended consequence of EU sanctions against Russia. Meant to punish Russia for invading Ukraine, the EU oil...

The Syrian regime army sent reinforcements from the powerful First and Third Divisions to the Kurdish-held areas in northern Aleppo countryside at the contact lines with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The two military convoys came from...