President Ahmad al-Sharaa issued a decree establishing the Syrian Petroleum Company (SPC), headquartered in Damascus. According to the presidential decree, the company is a public holding company with an economic character, fully owned by the state, called the Syrian Petroleum Company...

Israeli naval forces attacked an international aid flotilla bound for the besieged Gaza Strip and detained at least 317 activists on board, organizers said on Thursday. According to the official flotilla tracker, 21 vessels were attacked by Israeli naval forces, 19 others are believed to have...

Israeli strikes killed at least 13 people across Gaza on Thursday, the territory’s civil defense agency said, including an employee of the French charity Doctors Without Borders. Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal, whose rescue agency operates under Hamas authority, said 10 people were...

Two people were killed after an assailant reportedly drove a car into pedestrians and a stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in Manchester in northwest England on Thursday, British police said, adding that officers had shot the suspect. Greater Manchester Police said officers had been...

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake rattled buildings in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul on Thursday, sending some people rushing out to the streets, Reuters witnesses and the AFAD disaster agency said. AFAD said the tremor centered in the Marmara Sea, southwest of Istanbul, along a faultline long...

South Africa on Thursday called on Israel to release activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla including Nelson Mandela’s grandson, saying Israel’s interception of the Gaza-bound aid boats was a grave offence and violation of international law. South Africa has taken Israel to the...

Israeli forces rammed a vessel belonging to the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, deployed water cannons against the fleet and mistreated its activists. “The Israeli occupation is using violence against our ships, deliberately ramming one of them, deploying water cannons, and brutally...

As the Pentagon announced the drawdown of US troops in Iraq this week, the American military is shifting its focus to the ISIS threat emanating from neighboring Syria. “We’re ending the forever war in Iraq,” a senior US defense official told reporters on a call. The official said the burden...

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani discussed with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday his plan to end the  war in Gaza  in a phone call, the Emiri Diwan said in a statement. Sheikh Tamim reiterated Qatar’s support for peace efforts and expressed confidence the...

The ceiling of a landmark building from the 1800s under renovation in Syria’s capital collapsed Wednesday, killing two workers and injuring several others, state media reported. Rescuers were searching for workers still trapped in the rubble of the building, known as the Grand Serail, in...

At least 14 Palestinians were killed and others wounded Wednesday in a series of fresh Israeli airstrikes across multiple areas of the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Seven people were killed and others injured when Israeli warplanes struck a home in the Al-Daraj...

When people emerge from the furnace of wars and conflicts and their revolutions triumph, it is not enough for the sound of the cannons to be silenced for life to return to normal. There are wounds in memory and betrayals in history that cannot be restored by simply signing an agreement or...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained an assessment of several service projects that were about to be implemented before the recent events. These projects include paving roads and implementing sewage projects the southern Sweida province. The service sector across Syria suffers from a clear deterioration....

A spokesman for the Maghreb branch of the Global Sumud Flotilla that is heading to Gaza said early Wednesday that an Israeli naval maneuver to intercept the flotilla failed and that the ships ignored the attempt against lead vessels and continued toward Gaza. Wael Naouar said through the US...

The tenth anniversary of the Russian military intervention in Syria marks a political climate completely different from the one that existed when the first Russian airstrikes began on September 30, 2015. At that time, Moscow intervened under the pretext of "fighting terrorism." However,...

German prosecutors announced Tuesday the arrest of a Syrian national accused of crimes against humanity for leading a pro-regime militia during the early months of Syria's civil war in 2011. Police arrested Anwar S. in Berlin following an investigation that led to strong suspicion of his...

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas militants have about three or four days to respond to his Gaza peace plan proposal or face the consequences. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House that Israeli and Arab leaders had accepted the plan and “we’re just waiting...

As part of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan, Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, responsible for delivering the day-to-day running of public services and municipalities for the people in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he supports US President Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war on Gaza. He emphasised his distrust of the Palestinian Authority, which under the plan would have no role in managing the strip until after a period of reform.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to his Qatari counterpart for Israel’s attack in Doha during a call from the White House, the Trump administration said on Monday. The call to Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani came as Netanyahu met with US President...