Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other using poison gas. The rebels, including both Free Syrian Army factions...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt that regime forces imposed a security cordon around Tartus central prison on Sunday afternoon following some of the political prisoners carrying out an insurrection. The political prisoners managed to gain control of the entire prison after breaking down room...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo’s activists mourn the death of Ahmad Sindet the military leader of Jaish al-Islam in northern Syria following his killing by a thermobaric missile launched by the Russian warplanes. Sindet was in the village of Minyan that borders New Aleppo neighborhood after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State forces have shuffled the cards once more by withdrawing from significant positions in Aleppo’s countryside, namely the infantry school, Tel Shaeir, and the al-Maslimyet cement factory on Saturday evening.  The withdrawal happened quietly and...