(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels made Friday more gains in the Coastal Latakia province, recapturing strategic town of Kasnaba and three hilltops after week of major offensive against regime forces and allied militias in Jabal al-Akrad area, rebel commanders said. An Ahrar al-Sham commander...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces waged an arrest campaign tracking 17,000 people who escaped conscription in the coastal city of Latakia, amid severe shortage in manpower in the army, activists said. Activist Abo Ahmed Lazqani reported to Zaman Al Wasl that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people have been killed in surface-to-surface missile attack hit Otaya town in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, activists said Thursday. Three children and a woman were among the casualties, medics in Douma hospital said. In northern Idlib...

Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government, sources familiar with the Kremlin's thinking say. Getting to that point could take years, and in the meantime Russia...