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US-led airstrikes kill 35 people in Deir Ezzor: Daesh news agency

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 people, including women and children, have been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Daesh news agency said Tuesday. Amaq reported that the 25 airstrikes on the villages of al-Sha’fah and al-Kamsha near the Iraqi...

At least 6 wounded in massive blast in Homs

At least six people were wounded in a massive explosion in the regime-controlled city of Homs, state news agency SANA and activists reported Tuesday. "Six civilians were injured by a bomb explosion inside a bus in ... the al-Zahra neighborhood," SANA quoted the head of the Homs police...

Families of Hama prison detainees protest death sentences

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Families of Hama prison detainees have protested in front of the notorious prison as their sons began hunger strike against arbitrary death sentences by the regime's Terror Court, activists said Tuesday. The sit-in that organized by mothers and wives of the detainees...

Idlib: Tahrir al-Sham on alert amid fears of imminent offensive

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group is on alert amid concerns of imminent offensive on northern Idlib province following violations for the Russian -brokered buffer zone agreement, sources said. All the formations and units of Tharir al-Shall, an alliance led by Syria's former...

Former AFP reporter in Eastern Ghouta wins journalism award

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian photojournalist, Amer al-Mawhebani, known as Amer al-Shami, was honoured on Monday by a French Varenne foundation for his work and courage. The Varenne Foundation presented him with its grand prize in the photojournalism category for his picture of a...

Israeli air raids kill three Palestinians as Gaza tensions rise

At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials, in the latest escalation less than 24 hours after a deadly covert Israeli operation in the besieged enclave. The air strikes on Monday followed a barrage of rocket fire...

Syrian prisoners on hunger strike over death sentences

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian prisoners in Hama central prison on hunger strike against arbitrary death sentences by the regime's Terror Court, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The detainees in all sections and wings have decided to participate in the strike in order to push the regime to...

US-backed force says resuming anti-Daesh offensive in eastern Syria

A Kurdish-led force backed by a U.S.-led anti-militant coalition said Sunday that it was resuming its offensive against Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an Arab-Kurdish alliance, had announced it was suspending its operation in Deir al-Zor on October 31 after...

Tahrir al-Sham kills 8 army troops in Latakia: sources

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group has attacked regime army in the coastal Latakia province overnight, killing at least 8 troops and wounding others, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The attack in the mountainous region of Jabal al-Turkman followed the death of 8 regime...

US, Iraqi forces kill dozens of Daesh militants

The U.S. military says American and Iraqi forces killed more than 50 Daesh (ISIS) militants, including several commanders, in northern Iraq last month. U.S. Central Command said Sunday that an Oct. 30 operation in Salahuddin province killed five Daesh leaders and more than 30 other militants,...

After IS, Damascus suburb residents blocked from going home

Abu Mohammed thought he could finally go home after jihadists were expelled from his Damascus suburb, but he says Syrian authorities have blocked his return by wrongly classifying his dwelling as unfit to live in. In May, regime forces turfed the Islamic State group out of a chunk of...

Tahrir al-Sham kills 8 Syria troops near truce zone: activist group

Militants have killed at least eight Syrian regime troops near a planned buffer zone around the country's last major rebel bastion, an activist group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack took place late Friday in the north of Hama province near the...

Fuel prices increases people suffering in opposition areas

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The suffering of people in rebel-held areas in northern Syria has increased due to the recent rise in fuel prices, which put low income people in front of hard choices, in light of the low temperatures and the flash floods which unleashed by heavy rains. Mohammed...

US-led coalition airstrikes kill 26 civilians in eastern Syria

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children Friday in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. "Twenty-six IS family members including 14 children and 9 women were killed in coalition air...

Thousands rally against 'fragile' buffer zone deal in northern Syria

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of people on Friday came out to the streets of rebel-held areas in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo provinces to rally against the Syrian regime and to denounce the fragile buffer zone deal. Demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the Syrian revolution and...

Two killed children among liberated Syrian hostages held by Daesh

Daesh (ISIS) militants shot and killed two children during an operation to liberate a group of hostages from southern Syria that were being held by the extremist group since July, a father and activists said Friday. Nashaat Abu Ammar, a resident of Swaida whose wife, two sons and...

Jaish al-Izza thwarts regime attack in northern Hama

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday have thwarted regime’s surprise attack on the northern countryside of Hama province, local reporter said. The regime forces pushed into the stronghold of Jaish al-Izaa near the town of al-Latameh. The overnight clashes left 23...

Strategic Murak crossing reopens due to Buffer Zone deal

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has reopened the Murak crossing that links between regime-held areas in Hama province and rebel-held areas in northern Idlib province, such a step following the Russian-brokered buffer zone agreement, local activists said Thursday. Since Russian has...