Members of the US Congress have urged the Biden administration to implement all provisions of the Caesar Act to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its allies.During a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle E...

Syria devalued the official price of its local currency on Thursday two days after the central bank governor was sacked, state media reported.The decision came after the Syrian pound crashed over the recent months in the war-torn country, h...

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 Syri...

Russia has withdrawn forces from controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday.The Russian military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, Kashta...

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 SyriaA medical source told Zaman al-Wasl than 24 people were tested positive for COVID-1...

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 Tuesday.The newspaper of...

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 thr...

A 10-day curfew in areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in northeast Syria went into effect Tuesday in an attempt to try limit the spread of coronavirus in the region that borders Turkey and Iraq.Northeast Syria witnessed a sharp increa...

Three pro-Syrian regime militants were killed in an ambush by Daesh (ISIS) in the Badia desert in central Homs province, local sources said Monday.The ambush targeted the Palestinian Liwa al-Qusd militia near al-Sukhna town in the eastern c...

The Syrian Central Bank has applied new measure to combat black exchange market by selling US dollar to traders and importers at a slightly lower rate, seeking for a complete control on the exchange market players.The regime fixed the price...

The global chemical weapons watchdog has "reasonable grounds to believe" that Syria's air force dropped a chlorine bomb on a residential neighbourhood in the rebel-controlled Idlib region in February 2018, a report released on Monday said.T...

Syria has been labeled one of the worst countries in the world in terms of the number of mines planted since the war broke out in 2011, with more than 12,000 killed in mine and explosive accidents.Syria has become one of the worst countries...

Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the devastating Syrian regime chemical attack in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, which left 39 civilians dead including many women and children. Protesters gathered in the centre of Idlib, northwestern Syria...

 Three intelligence officers were killed Friday in an ambush set up by unknown assailants in southern Daraa province, local observatory said.The ambush targeted officers in the Political Security near Ghabageb town in the northern countrysi...

The Action Group for Palestinians said Thursday that COVID-19 pandemic has increased the suffering of Palestinians living in Syria.The Britain-based monitoring group shed the light on the deteriorating living conditions in the Palestinian c...

 Syrian authorities are unlawfully confiscating the homes and lands of Syrians who fled Syrian-Russian military attacks in Idlib and Hama governorates, Human Rights Watch said today.A pro-government militia and the government-controlled “Pe...

By Talmiz AhmadThe 10-year commemoration of Syria’s bloody civil conflict in March has evoked expressions of anguish and some new diplomatic initiatives.Nearly half-a-million people have been killed and several million more displaced since...

The man who has led Daesh/ISIS following the 2019 death of its founder is a former prisoner who helped the US eliminate his rivals in the terror group's previous organization, according to a report published on Thursday.Abu Ibrahim al-Hashi...

They are boisterous, argumentative and at times downright hilarious.Hundreds of thousands of people in the Arab world are turning to Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio chat app, to mock and vent against longtime rulers, debate sensitive issu...

At least seven civilians, including three children and two children, were killed with two children severely injured in an attack by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in northwestern Idlib province, sources said on Thursday.The missile attack ta...

Last summer, two U.S. officials ventured into hostile territory for a secret high-stakes meeting with American adversaries.The Syrian government officials they were scheduled to meet in Damascus seemed ready to discuss the fate of U.S. host...

Israel carried out a missile attack near the Syrian capital of Damascus and its southern suburbs early Thursday that wounded four soldiers, Syria’s state media said.State news agency, SANA, quoted an unidentified military official as saying...

Daesh on Tuesday abducted 19 people, mostly civilians, in the centre of war-torn Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The extremists attacked regime forces in the Badia desert, before kidnapping eight policemen...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has phoned Syria's Bashar al-Assad to discuss the demarcation of Lebanon-Syria maritime borders, according to Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe.The move came after the Syrian regime offered a R...

 Dr. Fayez Al-Khalif, Minister of Higher Education in the opposition's Salvation Government, was found dead in the western countryside of Aleppo province after he went missing last week.