The Syrian Monetary and Credit Council raised the interest rate on bank deposits in Syrian pounds with the aim of absorbing more liquidity in the markets, to reduce inflationary pressures, according to a statement issued by the Central Bank of Syria on Wednesday. According to the decision,...

DARAA (Zaman Al-Wasl)- The fuel crisis in southern Daraa province is deepening and getting worse day by day as no fuel shipments have been delivered since last March and the majority of residents received only 50 liters of subsidized heating allowances during the winter season. This was...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia vowed to continue its bloody offensive in Ukraine as the war neared its seventh week Wednesday, as President Vladimir Putin insisted the campaign was going as planned despite a major withdrawal and significant losses. Thwarted in their push toward the capital,...

The Jordanian Customs said on Tuesday they had seized more than about 1.4 million Captagon pills smuggled by a Syrian truck.   The Customs Department said in a statement that a suspicious truck loaded with home furniture was subjected to an x-ray machine. During a close inspection, the...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Russia's war in Ukraine amounted to genocide,” accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to “wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian." “Yes, I called it genocide," he told reporters in Iowa shortly before boarding Air Force...

Not far from a muddy trench, large stacked black pipes will soon be buried in this land in Denmark, as construction of a gas pipeline connecting Norway and Poland resumed after the invasion of Ukraine. From liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal projects in northern Germany, Finland or France...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sent huge military reinforcements to the Mahin area in the eastern countryside of Homs in order to protect its warehouses, an informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The IRGc brought on Monday evening brought new reinforcements from the city of Palmyra in...

BERLIN (AP) — A German woman who allegedly abused a Yazidi slave while in Islamic State-held territory in Syria has been charged with crimes against humanity and other offenses, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The woman, identified only as Jalda A. in keeping with German privacy laws, was...

PARIS (AP) — The thought of an extreme-right leader standing at the helm of the European Union would be abhorrent to most in the 27-nation bloc. But if Emmanuel Macron falters in the April 24 French presidential elections, it might be two weeks away. Experts say a win for far-right candidate...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his country can’t be isolated. Speaking on a visit to the Vostochny space launch facility in Russia’s Far East, Putin said Tuesday that Russia has no intention to isolate itself and added that foreign powers wouldn’t succeed in isolating...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were “carpeted through the streets.” Speaking by phone Monday to The...

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria completed a field study on the return of the displaced and the reconstruction of the "Yarmouk" camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus. The study included the decisions to return the people issued by the regime authorities, the procedures they...

Four militants of the Iraqi Hezbollah Battalions were killed and five more wounded in a surprise attack by the "Islamic State" group near the town of Al-Sukhna in the Syrian Badia desert, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The attack targeted a military headquarters in the Al-Taybeh...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Monday that it destroyed air defense systems in Ukraine over the weekend, in what appeared to be a renewed push to gain air superiority and take out weapons Kyiv has described as crucial ahead of a broad new offensive in the east. Moscow's initial invasion...

A German woman returning from Syria (Verina-M) may prosecuted and imprisoned to several years on charges of membership in a "terrorist organization" and "kidnapping of children", according to the German Bild daily.   Verina-M returned to Germany and is now standing before the "Düsseldorf...

NEW YORK (AP) — With the Russian military in retreat from around Kyiv and facing condemnation for brutal tactics, harsh political repression at home and the economy buffeted by Western sanctions, adversaries and allies alike are raising the same question about President Vladimir Putin: Can he...

The Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria confirmed that with the advent of the Holy month of Ramadan, prices witnessed an "insane" rise which mounted the suffering of the residents of Daraa camp for Palestinian refugees, who suffer from harsh living conditions and poverty.  ...

The "Iraqi Hezbollah" militia has deployed military reinforcements in the desert Sukhnah town in the eastern Homs countryside on Friday.   Zaman al-Wasl sources said the reinforcements were brought from Damascus to set up several military points, in addition to establishing two exercise...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Civilian evacuations moved forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine on Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station where thousands clamored to leave before an expected Russian onslaught. In the...

The Syria Response Coordinators team confirmed that three out of five Syrians suffer from food insecurity, after the continuous rise in food prices and the deterioration of living conditions across Syria.   The local relief group said in a statement that despite the fact that the number...