Turkey sent more reinforcements into northwestern Syria Thursday, setting up new positions in an attempt to stop a Syrian regime offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, the media and opposition activists said. The move came after a rare confrontation between...

 Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early Thursday near Damascus, wounding eight soldiers, Syrian state media said, while an opposition war monitoring group said the strikes targeted army positions as well as Iran-backed fighters, killing 12. The state news agency SANA said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The military pilot who carried out the deadly Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack in April 2017 has been appointed by Bashar al-Assad as the commander of the 70th Brigade that affiliated to the military T-4 airbase east of Homs province. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Yousef...

  Syrian air defences intercepted Israeli missiles over the capital Damascus, state media said early on Thursday without specifying the nature of the targets. Syrian state run Ikhbariyah TV said the attack was launched from over the Golan Heights as well as through Lebanese...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish artillery fire hit regime outposts near the town of Sarqeb late on Wednesday as eye witnesses confirmed that the Russian-led forces entered the strategic town in northwestern Idlib province. More than 100 shells pounded regime forces, leaving dozen killed and...

Russian-led Syrian regime forces entered Saraqeb in northwestern Idlib province, a war monitor and eye witnesses said on Wednesday, in a renewed push by Bashar al-Assad to recapture the last rebel stronghold. Regime forces were combing the town after rebel fighters fled following...

Eight humanitarian aid organisations on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire in northwestern Syria, where hostilities have displaced half a million people in the past two months. Russia-backed forces of the Syrian regime have upped their deadly bombardment of the last major rebel...

The UN Security Council will meet Thursday for an emergency session on Syria following clashes between the Turkish and Syrian military, diplomats said Wednesday. They said the meeting, which will be open to the public, was requested by the United States, France and Britain. The...

Cold weather, disease and a lack of shelter and medicine threaten hundreds of thousands of civilians as they flee fighting in Idlib province, in one of the biggest upheavals of Syria's nine-year civil war, aid groups and doctors said. The migrants, their numbers swelling by the day, are...

Syrian regime forces in Idlib must pull back behind a line of Turkish observation posts by the end of this month, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, warning that if they did not withdraw Turkey would drive them back. Speaking two days after eight Turkish military personnel...

The United States has halted a secretive military intelligence cooperation program with Turkey that for years helped Ankara target Kurdish PKK militants, four U.S. officials told Reuters. The U.S. decision to indefinitely suspend the program, which has not been previously reported, was made...

The Daesh group has maintained its capabilities in Syria despite the death of its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an independent U.S. government watchdog said in a report on Tuesday. An inspector general from the Department of Defense also said that a possible departure of American troops from...

Syrian regime forces Wednesday pressed on with their offensive in the northwest that has displaced half a million people, despite heightened tensions with Turkey. Intensive aerial bombardment and ground fighting in the jihadist-dominated Idlib region since December have killed almost 300...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for an end to fighting between Turkey and Syria in Syria's opposition-held province of Idlib on Tuesday. Guterres told reporters it was an "extremely worrying" escalation in the conflict that the Turkish army and the Syrian army were now...

The United Nations says it has received “alarming messages” from its staff in Idlib, Syria, as regime attacks continue unabated in the country’s northwest. “There are no safe spaces in Idlib; bombs are falling anywhere and everywhere. Even those fleeing the frontlines are not safe and there...

The ongoing attacks by Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and its allies forced some 40,000 civilians to flee their homes in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, over the last two days, according to sources on the ground. Forced migration gained momentum from central areas of...

At least one student was killed and seven others injured in a rocket attack on Afrin city in northern Aleppo province by the Kurdish People's Protection Units, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The Kurdish militia has targeted two schools and a mosque in Afrin’s city center...

Following an Assad regime attack on Turkish troops, Turkey will keep its military observation posts in Idlib, Syria, along with necessary fortifications, because they play a vital role, said the president on Tuesday. The deadly attack was very clear violation of the Idlib agreement and so...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb killed and wounded dozen of regime army troops south of Damascus when it blew up on the 'Peace highway', activists told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The blast targeted a checkpoint for the 68 Tank Brigade at the gate of Khan al-Sheeh in the southwestern...

A Russian-led Syrian regime offensive against the country's last rebel enclave has displaced more than half a million people in two months, the United Nations said Tuesday. "Since 1 December, some 520,000 people have been displaced from their homes, the vast majority - 80 percent - of...