(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, have seized control of a strategic town on the western outskirts of Damascus on Thursday, killing and wounding dozens of regime forces, rebel sources and state-run media said. The capture of Deir...

There will be no new round of Syria talks for at least two or three weeks, the office of U.N. special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said in a statement on Thursday, after he consulted the U.N. Security Council for about two and a half hours. "He briefed on his intention to start the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman A Wasl)- Syrian rebels have thwarted regime attack on the village of al-Hadada in Latakia province for the seventh time this month, causing significant injuries and deaths among the regime forces and allied Shiite militias, local activists said. After a...

Syria's devastating war has killed more than 280,000 people, activists said Thursday in a new toll for the five-year conflict. The toll of 282,283 includes 81,436 civilians, among them 14,040 children and 9,106 women, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Non-extremist rebel fighters...