A children's advocacy group warned Friday that half of nearly 400,000 displaced people in the Syrian government's two-month-long offensive on the country's last rebel-held region are children, calling it a wave of displacement unlike anything seen before in the war in Syria. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army captured three villages from Russian-backed regime forces in the eastern region of Aleppo province, following surprise attacks in east and west Aleppo killed at least 30 elite troops and destroyed 7 tanks, rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The French authorities have arrested the former spokesman for the Jaysh al-Islam group in Marseille over torture and war crimes charges, judicial sources told Le Figaro on Friday. Majdi Mustafa Ne’ma (nom de guerre: Islam Alloush), 32, who was in...

 Syrian regime forces were poised Friday to retake the rebel-held town of Saraqeb in the country's northwest where battles this week killed more than 400 combatants, a monitor said. Russian-backed regime forces have advanced with a double-pronged push in the Idlib region, home to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 87 civilians have been killed since the start of the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement on January 12 in northwestern Idlib province, a monitoring group said on Friday. The death toll included 33 children and 11 women, according to the Syrian Network for Human...

Once the throbbing heart of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime, Maaret al-Numan is an eerie ghost town where few buildings have been spared by nine years of war. Following a major ground offensive, the Syrian army captured the town in the northwestern province of Idlib on...

The Kremlin said Friday that Russia was fully compliant with its obligations in Syria's Idlib region, but that it was deeply concerned about what it said were aggressive militant attacks on Syrian regime forces and Russia's Hmeimim air base. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday...

Turkey may launch a military operation into Syria's northwestern Idlib province if the situation is not resolved immediately, President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday as attacks by Russia-backed Syrian regime forces risked a new wave of refugees. Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 pro-Iran Shiite fighters, including senior commanders, have been killed by Syrian rebels in Aleppo province as regime forces backed by Hezbollah and Iraqi militias press to seize last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, sources said. ...

Waad al-Kateab, the director of Oscar-nominated Syrian film "For Sama," demonstrated outside the United Nations headquarters on Thursday to denounce the bombings of hospitals in her war-torn country. "Shame, UN, shame," "Shame, (UN Secretary-General Antonio) Guterres, shame," chanted the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish truck driver was killed in a landmine explosion in the grains silos near Tal Abyad border crossing in northeastern Syria, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The YPG-planted landmine has wounded five more people, including two Turkish citizens. ...

Turkey will take additional measures against attacks targeting its forces and civilians in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, the national security council said on Thursday, after a nearly 5-hour meeting chaired by President Tayyip Erdogan. Bombardments by Russia-backed Syrian...

 Two hundred air strikes by Syrian government and Russian warplanes have hit Syria’s Idlib region in the last three days, the U.S. special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said on Thursday. Jeffrey told a press briefing that some 700,000 displaced people in northwest Syria were “on...

Warplanes struck a town in a rebel-held enclave in northwestern Syria, killing at least 10 people, including some who were fleeing the attack, opposition activists and a rescue service said Thursday. The attack, believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes backing the regime...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people, including children, were killed in airstrikes rocked a marketplace in Idlib province as regime forces and their Russian allies intensified an air offensive on the country's northwest, activists and rescue workers said. Russia has renewed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians have been killed Wednesday in airstrikes on the western region of Aleppo province as Russian-backed regime forces make rapid gains in the last rebel stronghold in northern Syria. The heavy aerial bombing targeted most of the western and southern countryside...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Moscow of "not honouring" agreements made with Ankara for northwestern Syria where Russian and Syrian warplanes have increased their bombardment, in remarks published Wednesday. "There have been agreements made with Russia. If Russia honours...

For years, Syria's Maaret al-Numan was a defiant hotspot for anti-government protests, before increased regime bombardment reduced it to a graffiti-daubed ghost town. Here is a brief profile of the strategic northwestern road hub, which the Syrian army said it had recaptured on Wednesday...

Syrian regime troops are in full control of a key rebel-held town in the country's northwest after days of intense fighting and airstrikes that displaced tens of thousands of people, the Syrian army said Wednesday. The capture of the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province marks...

Turkey's Defence Ministry said Tuesday that it would retaliate "in the strongest way, without hesitation" against any attack on its observation posts in Syria's northwestern Idlib province by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Syrian government forces entered Tuesday a town south of Idlib...