The Islamic State declared responsibility for an operation against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of Deir Ezzor province, the pro-accounts of the group said on Telegram platform Sunday. In a statement, the IS claimed the killing of a member of the "SDF", following an...

The Russian mediator in Syria warned Kurdish forces that Turkey would carry out an incursion should they reject Moscow's conditions to end the tensions between Qamishli and Damascus. Informed sources told the German news agency (dpa) that the mediator informed the Kurdish Syrian Democratic...

​​The Syrian regime continues to detain more than 1,800 Palestinian refugees, including children, women and the elderly, many of whom have been forcibly disappeared.   On the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day, which falls on April 17 of each year, the Action Group for...

The US military says explosions earlier this month on a base in eastern Syria that injured several US service members were not, as it originally reported, caused by artillery or another form of indirect fire. Instead, it is now believed the April 7 attack was carried out by the “deliberate...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pummeled a hulking steel plant that held the last pocket of resistance Sunday in Mariupol, a southern Ukraine city that has suffered under siege for six weeks and whose capture would aid Moscow's plans for a full-scale offensive in the country's east. With...

DAMASCUS — Hundreds of ceramic doves are suspended over the streets of the Old City of Damascus, part of an art installation that had been set to debut before the start of Syria's war. The lifelike figurines crafted by Buthaina Al Ali, a professor at Damascus University's faculty of arts,...

RIYADH — Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on Saturday, their second call since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Saudi Press Agency said the two discussed bilateral relations and “ways of enhancing them in all fields.” The Saudi...

 The Syrian Civil Defense began the rehabilitation of a number of roads in the coastal camps and villages and towns in the western countryside of Idlib.   The White Helmets said the beneficiaries of these works are the people of the villages and towns (Khirbet Al-Jouz, Badria,...

MYKULYCHI, Ukraine (AP) — This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son's body home for burial. The questions wear her down, heavy like the winter coat and...

Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem with medics reporting at least 158 Palestinians injured in the ensuing violence as hundreds were detained. The Islamic endowment that runs the site said Israeli police entered in force before dawn on Friday, as...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of more than 900 civilians have been discovered in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital following Russia's withdrawal — most of them fatally shot, police said Friday, an indication that many people were "simply executed.” The jarring number emerged...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Friday that the Syrian regime has acknowledged the deaths of 1,056 Syrian citizens who were forcibly disappeared by the regime through the country’s Civil Registry departments, including 54 individuals from Deir al Asafeer town whose fate...

Pro-regime economic analysts predicted that the Central Bank's decision to raise the exchange rate of remittance dollars by 14 percent, will lead to opening the borders of inflation in the Syrian market, which will cause more suffering for the residents of regime-held areas.   The Central...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry promised Friday to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine’s alleged aggression on Russian territory, an ominous warning that followed Moscow's stinging symbolic loss of its navy's flagship in the Black Sea. The...

Israel has fired several missiles toward Syrian military positions near Damascus, causing material damage, Syria’s military said Friday. State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the attack occurred shortly before midnight Thursday, adding that some of the Israeli...

BERLIN (AP) — A man who allegedly launched a grenade into a crowd of civilians waiting for food in Damascus in 2014, killing at least seven people, has been charged in Germany with war crimes and murder, prosecutors said Thursday. The stateless man, identified only as Moafak D. in line with...

Kurdish Asayish forces took control of state-run institutions in the northeastern city of Qamishli in response to Syrian regime forces siege on Kurdih -held neighborhood in Aleppo city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday.   The escalation came despite a Russian mediation to...

The Russian military sustained a major blow Thursday when the flagship of the country's Black Sea fleet was badly damaged and its crew evacuated. Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the vessel with missiles, while Russia acknowledged a fire aboard the Moskva but no attack. The warship...

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s “sincerely thankful” to the U.S. for the new round of $800 million in military assistance. In his daily late-night address to the nation, Zelenskyy also said he was thankful for Wednesday’s visit by the presidents of Poland,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia's initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching, potentially decisive, battle for Ukraine's contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has...