Syria's Kurds on Sunday renewed their appeal for international aid to put on trial thousands of captured members of the Islamic State group, including Western nationals. Almost a year since the March 2019 fall of the last IS bastion in Syria, the victorious US-backed and Kurdish-led forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Sunday reported summary executions of civilians by regime forces in the western countryside of Aleppo province. Activist Suhali Abdul Rahman said Saturday's executions followed the capture of the towns of al-Mansoura and Kafr Dael where regime forces...

 Several Turkish troops were wounded Sunday in Syria's Idlib province after Syrian regime forces targeted a Turkish military convoy with heavy artillery, prompting it to retreat northwards, the Syrian Observatory monitoring group reported. Turkey has sent thousands of troops to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two regime army officers were killed in double rebel attack in the town of Nawa in southern Daraa province, pro-regime activists said Saturday.  A series of snap attacks has been carried out by the opposition armed groups against regime army and allied militants...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said he would hold a summit with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany on March 5 to discuss the escalating violence in Syria's last rebel enclave of Idlib. The announcement comes a day after two European Union heavyweights France and...

 The highway that links the Syrian capital with the northern city of Aleppo is open for public use for the first time in nearly eight years after government forces recently captured parts of it that had been held by insurgents, the transportation minister said Saturday. The reopening...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish soldier was killed on Saturday in an attack by Syrian regime forces in the northern Idlib region, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Twitter. Turkey retaliated to the attack with full force and 21 regime targets were heavily hit and destroyed, said the...

Russian daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that Turkey has prevented four Russian military aircrafts, including two bombers, from crossing its airspace to Syria. Field sources knowledgeable about the Russian Hmeimim Air Base, revealed on Thursday that the Russian forces...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has discussed the situation in Syria's Idlib with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday. "During the telephone conversation they discussed issues of stabilization of the situation in Idlib de-escalation zone,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian  opposition forces  stormed three security checkpoints in central Homs province overnight, leaving dozen killed and wounded, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Military Intelligence outposts in the town of Talbiseh came under fire of rebel groups...

Over 875,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have been forced to flee northwest Syria since December. The scale and speed of this most recent displacement — in the middle of winter — has massively increased humanitarian needs in the country. Escalating violence and harsh winter...

Turkey's president urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone call Friday to “restrain" the Syrian regime and halt the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northwestern Syria as Damascus wages a military offensive against the last rebel stronghold in the country. Recep Tayyip...

The United Nations warned Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could "end in a bloodbath" and called again for a ceasefire, while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russian-led Syrian government offensive. Syrian troops backed by Russian air power have been...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told reporters that Turkey will not withdraw from Idlib and that he will decide his Idlib stance after speaking to Russian president, Vladimir Putin later today. He also called for "concrete action" to prevent a crisis in Syria's last rebel stronghold...

The 34-year-old and her newborn girl are being treated in one of the last functioning hospitals in the Syrian city of Idlib. Seventy hospitals have been bombed out of action, and the location of this hospital is being kept secret for fear it will be targeted next. Doctors have...

The Turkish lira and bonds slipped Friday as increasing conflict in neighbouring Syria unsettled investors, with the market also hit by a global flight to safe-haven assets in response to coronavirus worries. Syria-related jitters increased after Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 Syrian regime soldiers were killed on Friday in a missile attack by the Turkey-backed forces in northern Idlib province, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Captain Naji Mustafa, spokesman for the National Liberation Front, said the key National Army...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces made a swap deal with pro-Iran militias in the western countryside of Aleppo province, military source told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. Two rebel fighters were freed near the town of Anjara in an exchange for a militant's corpse. Also in...

The European Union is urging an immediate halt to a crushing offensive by Syrian forces that has displaced nearly 1 million people in recent weeks. The 27-nation EU said in a statement early Friday that it is ready to boost aid to the most vulnerable civilians affected in Syria's Idlib...

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday that the United States may send Patriot missile systems to Turkey to use for security in the face of the conflict in northwestern Syria’s Idlib region. Speaking in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk, Akar said talks with the United...