Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on Syrian army positions and military vehicles in As-Suwayda Governorate, coinciding with the entry of Syrian army and Interior Ministry forces into the city to restore internal security after days of armed clashes between Druze and Bedouin groups. The...

Violent clashes erupted in southern Syria's Druze-majority Suweida on Tuesday as government forces entered the city, an AFP correspondent at an entrance to Suweida reported. A statement from Druze religious authorities had called for local fighters to lay down their arms. But...

The death toll from ongoing clashes in the southern Syrian province of Sweida between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes has risen to more than 100, according to what Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the BBC. The Syrian Ministry of Defense said that...

More than 700 Palestinians, mostly children, have been killed by Israeli army fire while collecting water since October 2023, local authorities said on Monday. “The Israeli occupation continues to wage a systematic and deliberate war of thirst against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in a...

Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the outskirts of the countryside of Suwayda city in southern Syria on Monday, Syrian media said. The state news agency SANA said Israeli fighter jets carried out two airstrikes near the town of Al-Mazraa and a third strike in the vicinity of Kanaker....

More than 30 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured during clashes between armed Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in the southern Syrian governorate of Sweida, according to the initial reports from the Interior Ministry on Monday. The ministry expressed deep concern and...

Violence has escalated in the southern Syrian province of Sweida, transforming the city's streets and villages into a battleground for bloody clashes. More than 23 people have been killed and 87 wounded, according to a preliminary toll that is expected to rise. As clashes between local...

Syria has finalised an $800m agreement with Dubai-based DP World to redevelop its Tartous port in a bid to speed up post-war reconstruction. State news agency SANA said the deal was signed in Damascus on Sunday between DP World and the General Authority for Land and Sea Ports, in the...

Israel is expected to present a new withdrawal map during ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, after talks stalled over Tel Aviv’s insistence on maintaining control of a large area along the Gaza Strip, media reports said Saturday. Israel’s Channel 12 said mediators are waiting for the new map to...

Intermittent clashes erupted on the front lines between Syrian army forces and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Deir ez-Zor province on Saturday night amid heightened security tensions and a state of alert, private sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The clashes with the YPG-led...

The US will impose 30% tariffs on the EU and Mexico starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday. In a post on Truth Social, Trump shared separate letters addressed to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, announcing a 30%...

Syria thanked the State of Qatar on Saturday for sending helicopters, vehicles, and personnel to support efforts to extinguish the ongoing forest fires in Latakia Governorate, which have been raging for ten days. Syrian Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh said via...

Türkiye has entered into a new era of unity and strength, opening a new chapter in its history, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday following the beginning of the PKK terrorist organization's disarmament ending the 47-year terror campaign. "Today marks a new day, a new chapter in...

Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Syrian government for natural gas supply to Syria, according to the Azerbaijani state news agency AZERTAC. The MoU was signed by Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister and SOCAR’s Supervisory Board Chairman Mikayil...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Azerbaijan on Saturday for his first official visit to the country since taking office earlier this year, according to Syria’s official news agency SANA and Azerbaijan’s state-run AZERTAC. While neither agency disclosed the duration or full agenda of...

Dozens of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants began handing over weapons in a ceremony in a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, officials said, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey. Helicopters hovered above the mountain where the...

Since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011, the question of the state has become central to political and intellectual debate, particularly after the collapse of the traditional central system and the emergence of multiple forms of governance and societies outside the central authority....

Firefighting teams and the Syrian Civil Defense are continuing their intensive efforts to control two dangerous fires in the northern Latakia countryside, eight days after the outbreak of fires that have devoured vast areas of forests and woodlands. Ahmed Yaziji, director of the operations...

A private source revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that civil registry offices in Syria have begun issuing official documents with fundamental amendments to the civil records of Palestinian Syrians. The term "Palestinian Syrian," which had been in use for decades, has been removed and replaced with the...

Thirty-five Syrian families returned from Lebanese camps to the city of Qusayr and its countryside in the southern Homs countryside on Thursday, as part of a new "voluntary return" convoy, without any UN sponsorship or support from international organizations. A Zaman al-Wasl correspondent...