Russia and the West are braced for a fresh showdown at the world's chemical weapons watchdog this week over a new team that will name culprits for attacks in Syria for the first time. The investigators' first report identifying perpetrators is expected early next year, and tensions are...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five children were killed and 8 women were wounded by an improvised explosive device in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Sunday. The deadly IED detonated inside a school in the village of Teeba that controlled by the Iranian militias. Iran has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed military source said the regime army had set a new site for Russian’s Tochka ballistic missiles in northern Syria. The first launch for the regime-own developed missile has claimed the lives of 16 displaced persons on Wednesday when the missile rocked...

At least 5 civilians killed in Russian air strikes on northern Idlib province, activists said Sunday. The attacks targeted the towns of Maaret Na’san and Kafranbel. Syria’s northwest corner, including the Idlib region, is the last major chunk of territory still in rebel hands...

Kurdish-led fighters sought to fend off Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies Saturday near a key town in northern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said pro-Ankara fighters had launched an attack on Ain Issa, where they have bases and...

Syria's Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. After years of leading the battle against the Islamic State group in Syria, the Kurds hold hundreds of...

U.S. Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie said on Saturday there are 500 U.S. personnel in east Syria, adding he expected anti-Islamic State operations to pick up in coming days and weeks. McKenzie was speaking on the sidelines of the Manama Dialogue Conference in Bahrain.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 civilians were killed 20 others wounded in a car bomb attack in the northern Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, local activists said Saturday.  .The attack is the second in a month. On November 2, 13 people were killed by a car bomb in Tal Abyad...

Fatma, a 11-year-old displaced girl hopes she can get treatment like every burned child in the war-torn country. Fatma’s doctor Yusuf Sheikhouni says she needs facelifts for hands, eyes and ears as well as she needs a silicon mask and an artificial hair transplant.  ...

Kazakhstan will host a fresh round of Syria peace talks sponsored by Russia, Turkey and Iran on December 10-11, Kazakh foreign minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi told reporters on Friday. Tleuberdi provided no details about the agenda or participants in the talks.

A Russian-speaking man who filmed the torture and killing of a prisoner in Syria has been identified as a member of Wagner, a Russian private military company with ties to the Kremlin that has aggressively expanded into the Middle East and Africa in recent years. The video, which...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six troops of the Syrian regime’s elite forces were killed in a rocket attack by rebels in coastal Latakia province as Damascus seeks to take strategic Kabana hilltops, military sources said Friday. Nine more troops were wounded in the attack on the bastions of the 4th...

A number of orphaned British children caught up in the war in Syria are to be brought home to the UK, the foreign secretary has said. They will be the first UK citizens to be repatriated from the area of north-eastern Syria formerly controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian National Army on Thursday destroyed an Iranian site including weapons depot south of Aleppo, killing 4 militants, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Turkish-backed forces launched a Grad missile attack on the site near the town of al-Hadher in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Thursday halted an advance by regime forces and allied Iranian militias into the eatsern countryside of Idlib province, killing 15 militants, military sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The regime army has been pressing to take a strategic territory located...

Rebel rocket fire on the government-controlled northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday killed seven civilians and wounded 30, state television said. "Seven civilians were killed and 30 more were wounded by a rocket attack carried out by terrorist groups," the official broadcaster said of...

Turkey's defense ministry said Thursday that around 200 Syrians had returned to their homes after its offensive against Kurdish militants last month, with another 300 on the way. "Close to 200 of our Syrian brothers who had fled the (Kurdish militant) PKK/YPG... have voluntarily and safely...

Turkey is discussing with Russia how to address the continued presence of Kurdish YPG militants in areas covered by an agreement between the two countries, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday. Ankara halted its incursion against the YPG last month after agreeing with Moscow for...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a legal report coincides with the UN’s annual Universal Children’s Day that at least 29,017 children have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the popular uprising in March 2011.     The report documents the deaths...

An attack by Syrian regime forces on the rebel-held area of Idlib in northwestern Syria killed at least 15 and wounded several at a displaced persons camp on Wednesday, rescue workers said. Syria’s northwest corner, including the Idlib region, is the last major chunk of territory still...