At least two civilians were killed and four more wounded on Sunday by a bomb hidden in motorbike in northeastern Raqqa province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   The booby-trapped motorbike exploded in the industrial zone of the town of Soluk which is controlled by US-backed Kurdish...

 (AP) — Tribal leaders in northeastern Wisconsin were in shock Sunday hours after a gunman opened fire at their casino complex, killing two people and wounding another in what witnesses described as a hailstorm of bullets. Brown County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Pawlak said the shooting...

Syria's Bashar Assad issued a decree Sunday granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed before May 2, state news agency SANA said. SANA did not give a reason for the amnesty but it came days before Muslims celebrate Eid el-Fitr, the feast that marks...

 The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its report released today that it documented at least 147 cases of arbitrary arrest/ detention in Syria in April 2021, including one child and 19 women, noting that arrests/ detentions and enforced disappearances continue, and that...

A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the first to receive a U.N.-secured jab. Nizar Fattouh, a nurse in Ibn Sina Hospital in Idlib city, received one of 53,800 AstraZeneca vaccines delivered...

ISTANBUL (AP) — A close aide of killed Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been caught in Istanbul, police said Sunday. The Afghan national, only identified by the codename Basim, was detained in the Atasehir district on the city’s Asian side on Wednesday, according to...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — After coming under fire from Iran's supreme leader, the country's foreign minister offered him a direct and extensive apology Sunday for recorded comments leaked to the public last week. The recordings that surfaced of Mohammad Javad Zarif, including a blunt...

Turkish and Russian forces carried out a joint patrol for a record distance in northern Syria as part of the understandings concluded between the two sides. On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces and their Turkish counterparts carried out a joint patrol for over...

 Kurdish YPG militia targeted civilians in a rocket attack killing a child in a field in northern Afrin, Turkey's Defense Ministry said Sunday. The statement said that the terrorist group targeted innocent civilians working in the field by launching eight rocket attacks. While...

Palestinian refugees in Syria have been subjected to serious violations and abuses as a result of their targeting of all kinds of lethal and internationally prohibited weapons such as napalm, cluster bombs and barrel bombs, rights monitoring group said Saturday.   The Action...

A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria's last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the first to receive a United Nations-secured jab.   Nizar Fattouh, a nurse in Ibn Sina Hospital in Idlib city, received one of 53,800...

Parties to the Iran nuclear agreement on Saturday adjourned the third round of negotiations in Vienna aimed at bringing the United States back into the accord, with the Russian side expressing "cautious and growing optimism" and saying they hoped to achieve concrete results within three weeks....

Atletico Madrid were given a huge let-off on Saturday as Elche missed a 91st-minute penalty, allowing the La Liga leaders to escape with a 1-0 win and go five points clear at the top of the table. Elche's Fidel Chaves struck the post with his injury-time spot-kick in what could prove a...

Turkish Border guards detected a tunnel dug from Syria to Turkey, said the country’s National Defense Ministry on Saturday. “Thanks to the vigilance of our heroic border guards in [the southern] Hatay province, it was found that a tunnel was dug from Syria to Turkey,” the ministry said...

At least four pro-regime fighters were killed by unknown assailants in southern Quneitra province on Friday, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. The attack took place in Umm Batneh town where Syrian regime forces and allied Hezbollah militia are deployed near the Occupied Golan...

The Dutch government acted lawfully when it stripped six Dutch-Moroccan dual citizens of their Netherlands nationality on allegations that they traveled to Syria to join Islamic extremist group ISIS or other terrorist groups. The Council of State issued a ruling on Friday saying that the former...

The rate of assassinations and arrests in southern Daraa province has increased since April, amid security chaos following a reconciliation deal between the Syrian forces and opposition factions three years ago. Ahrar Horan, local monitoring group, said Saturday that at least 58 people,...

The number of children attempting or committing suicide in northwest Syria has risen sharply over the past year, with almost one in five of all recorded suicide cases involving adolescents, Save the Children said on Thursday. Deaths by suicide increased by 86 percent in the last three months...

Uzbekistan on Friday brought back 24 women and 69 children who had been staying at the Al-Hol camp in Syria with other families of Islamic State fighters, the Central Asian nation's government said, its fifth airlift of this kind.

An unidentified aircraft has reportedly bombarded a base belonging to Turkish military forces in Syria’s northern province of Raqqah as the troops are conducting a military campaign in the area against US-sponsored Kurdish militants from the so-called People's Protection Units (YPG)....