The Syrian army's advance in Aleppo slowed on Thursday but a victory was still firmly in sight after President Bashar Assad vowed that retaking the nation's second city would change the course of the six-year civil war in his favor. Lightning gains in recent days in which government forces...

Reporting by Faris al-Refai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated a tragic story a Syrian paramedic who had been shocked to find his three children among the aerial bombing casualties after being transferred to the hospital of Maer Tmasrin in northern Idlib province on Tuesday.  The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters launched major attack on regime forces and allied National Defense militia in a gas-rich territory east of Homs province, activists said Thursday. The hard-line group clashed with regime forces near al-Shaer and al-Muhr districts where the Syria's main strategic...

(Sky News)- Syria's Bashar al Assad has rejected pleas from rebel fighters in Aleppo for a truce. The president said victory in the battle-ravaged city would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's five-year civil war. He was speaking after a fierce three-week offensive in which...