Before arriving in Madrid, Muhammed, Ayham, Okba and Moussa honed their skills as journalists during Syria's bloody civil war and now they have opened Spain's first refugee-led digital magazine. Launched on April 7, Baynana is an innovative online 'magazine' whose Arabic name means "Between...

Four people were killed and another 17 wounded in a car bomb attack on Thursday in the sprawling Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical sources said. The car was parked at a busy second-hand equipment market in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim district, police said. An...

BERLIN (AP) — Negotiations to bring the United States back into a landmark nuclear deal with Iran resumed Thursday in Vienna amid signs of progress — but also under the shadow of an attack this week on Iran's main nuclear facility. After more than two hours of talks characterized by Russia's...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India's two largest cities imposed stringent restrictions on movement and one planned to use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 Thursday amid a devastating surge that is straining a fragile health system....

  A study by the Dutch Social and Cultural Planning Office, including 3,200 Syrian refugees who came to the Netherlands in 2014, has revealed that the distribution of  refugees   residency in all Dutch municipalities is not helpful for their access to employment...

GENEVA (AP) — A top official from the World Health Organization says Europe has surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19 and the situation remains “serious,” with about 1.6 million new cases reported each week in the region. The comments by Dr. Hans Kluge on Thursday aimed to emphasize...

Dr. Hoda Al-Absi, Minister of Education in the Syrian opposition’s Interim Government, announced her resignation on Wednesday. Al-Absi told Zaman Al Wasl that the past period was “full of frustration.” She directed her statement to “Free Syrians”, which she described as “the...

Three tankers loaded with crude oil docked at the port of Baniyas in Tartus province, which would cover the local market’s needs of gasoline, diesel and fuel for nearly two months, State-run Al-Baath newspaper said Wednesday. The newspaper of the ruling party quoted an official source...

Al-Qaeda experts believe that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has been in a parallel transformation, which is not restricted to the theological mindset as the former al-Qaeda affiliate is founding its own economic hub in northwestern Syria.  Besides the local governing body in Idlib city,...

Kurdish officials in northeast Syria are expressing concerns over a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in their region, calling on international health organizations to intervene to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe.”   A 10-day curfew went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to...

Health Directorate in the Turkish-held region of Ras al-Ain has recorded 24 coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a new wave of the pandemic in northeast Syria A medical source told Zaman al-Wasl than 24 people were tested positive for COVID-19. Five of them were admitted to the main...

Russia has withdrawn forces from controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. The Russian military units withdrew from outposts in Tal Rifaat, Sherawa, Kashtar, Tanb, Tal Ajjar and Menagh air base north...

The remains of Khaled al-Assaad, a Syrian archaeologist beheaded by Islamic State group jihadists, have yet to be recovered, his son told AFP on Wednesday. The official SANA news agency reported in February that authorities had uncovered three corpses in Kahloul, 10 kilometres (six...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday reiterated its call on the international community to hold those accountable for violating international law, citing a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The OPCW’s...

The COVID-19 restrictions have severely impacted health services for pregnant women and new moms in Africa as many of them lost their lives amid curfew restrictions, a humanitarian NGO has voiced. “In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, curfews imposed in certain African...

The Pfizer vaccine is highly effective in preventing COVID-19 infections, deaths, and hospitalizations, according to a new study in Spain.  The investigation followed more than 116,000 nursing home residents, staff, and healthcare workers who were vaccinated in Catalonia starting...

A third wave of COVID-19 continues to take its toll on Pakistan with 135 deaths recorded over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day fatalities since June 2020. Most deaths have been reported from the northeastern Punjab and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa provinces, where...

Recent intercommunal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur State have forced 1,860 refugees to cross into neighboring Chad in the past week, according to a statement. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said the refugees -- mostly women, children, and the elderly -- have fled homes in villages near...

NEW YORK (AP) — A study of the public's attitude toward the press reveals that distrust goes deeper than partisanship and down to how journalists define their very mission. In short: Americans want more than a watchdog. The study, released Wednesday by the Media Insight Project,...

 Zaman al-Wasl obtained photographs showing two Syrian refugees, based in Austria, in a visit to their hometown Salamiyah in northwestern Hama province last March as well as they met with a militia commander.  The two brothers Abdul Karim and Yazan Shatat, who got their...