More than 410,00 Syrians who fled to Turkey during the rule of Bashar al-Assad have returned home since he was overthrown in December, the government announced Thursday. Turkey’s interior ministry said 411,649 Syrians had so far returned, the rate picking up in recent weeks, with the...

A UN team of investigators found in a report on Thursday that a major outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal areas in March could constitute to a war crime. The report also pointed out at the involvement of all sides in these violations. The incidents invovled loyalists to ousted...

Four civilians were killed and five injured in an explosion at an ammunition depot near the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria, the Syrian Ministry of Health announced Thursday. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the explosion was caused by the detonation of an ammunition depot near the...

Turkey will provide weapons systems and logistical tools to Syria under a military cooperation accord signed on Wednesday, a Turkish Defense Ministry source said, adding that Ankara would also train the Syrian army in using such equipment if needed. Turkey, a NATO member, has been one of...

Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered Tuesday outside the UN headquarters in New York City to raise their voices about Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. Waving Palestinian flags, demonstrators banged pots and pans to protest Israel's starvation campaign in Gaza. They also drew attention to...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan criticized on Wednesday Israel’s role in recent conflicts in Suwayda, Syria, highlighting Türkiye’s concerns over external interference in Syrian affairs. "One of the main actors behind this dark picture (of Suwayda events) has turned out to be Israel,"...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani reiterated his country's support for Syria's stability and sovereignty over its territory on Tuesday, and his rejection of any aggression against it. He emphasized his commitment to strengthening coordination and solidarity between the two countries...

The northeastern province of Hasakah is witnessing a sharp security escalation, coinciding with escalating tensions between the Kurdish SDF militia and Arab tribes, particularly around Jabal Abdul Aziz and the Nashwa Road. The SDF closed the road linking Nashwa and the mountain, fearing...

Zaman al-Wasl publishes photos of the admission register at Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus, which includes the names of hundreds of detainees who arrived during the first quarter of 2016. In the register, the word "corpse" is written next to the name of each person who arrived dead,...

Syria has pledged to hold accountable all perpetrators of the recent violence in the southern city of Suwayda and to fully cooperate with the UN in investigating the violations, US Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack said Tuesday. In a post on his official X account, Barrack said the Syrian...

Syria’s foreign minister and a senior official in the country’s Kurdish administration have met in Damascus, sources from both sides told AFP on Tuesday, days after  the government boycotted talks in France. Damascus had said it would not participate in the Paris talks after the Kurds...

The Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday the death of a Syrian army soldier during the thwarting of an infiltration attempt by groups affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) toward army positions in the Tal Maaz area east of Aleppo. In a statement carried by the Syrian Arab...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained a copy of an official document issued by the Military Field Court in Damascus, confirming the execution of Talal Yahya Odeh, born in 1984 and originally from the village of Rayyan in Homs. The document, dated February 12, 2016, shows that Odeh was convicted of "crimes...

Tensions have escalated between a number of Syrian tribes and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in recent hours, with successive statements declaring a general mobilization, in line with Sheikh Faraj al-Hamoud al-Salama's call to fight the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants and their...

In a coordinated security operation between Germany, the Netherlands, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, five individuals suspected of involvement in smuggling hundreds of migrants, mostly Syrians, to Western European countries via the so-called "Balkan Route" were arrested. The NOS website...

Australia will formally recognize an independent State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday. Albanese, along with Foreign Minister Penny Wong, told reporters that the Palestinian Authority has given commitments to disarm, recognize...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, has blasted Israel for the killing of journalists working for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network in besieged Gaza. “The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip...

The German Journalists' Association (DJV) on Monday strongly condemned the killing of Palestinian journalists by Israeli military forces in Gaza and called for an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths. DJV Chairman Mika Beuster denounced the killing of an "unbearably high...

The deadly violence at the Sweida hospital lasted approximately 48 hours (July 15-16). Surveillance cameras captured it, but only three minutes were released a month later. This leaves a whole series of events missing, most notably the killing and exhumation of 140 bodies belonging to General...

Syria’s interior ministry on Monday said it would hold accountable those responsible for the apparent killing of an unarmed man at a hospital during violence last month in Druze-majority Sweida province, after a purported video of the incident emerged. “We condemn and denounce this act in...