Syrian regime troops Wednesday were engaged in heavy clashes with Turkish forces in the countryside around the border town of Ras al Ain in an area where a military offensive by Ankara aims to create a "safe" zone, state media said. It did not give details but Turkish-backed rebels...

Talks between Turkish and Russian officials on developments in northeast Syria have concluded and the two delegations have “largely” reached an agreement, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying by state media on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said...

Turkey has information that the Kurdish YPG militia has not completed its withdrawal to 30 kilometers from the Turkish border in northeast Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, despite assurances from Russia that they had left. He told lawmakers from his AK Party that Turkey...

Syria's government condemned what it called the occupation of its land and the opposition demanded justice and peace Wednesday at the opening of a U.N.-backed panel designed to bring about political reconciliation ending years of civil war. The first meeting of Syria's so-called...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A father and hid child son were killed Thursday in Russian airstrikes on the town of Kafranbel as regime forces backed by Russia have been mobilizing troops in the southern countryside of Idlib, seeking to take the last rebel stronghold near coastal Latakia province,...

Russia has informed Turkey that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters have withdrawn from a strip of land near the Syrian-Turkish border within a deadline set by Ankara and Moscow, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Under an accord clinched by Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin a...

Pivoting from the dramatic killing of the Islamic State group's leader, the Pentagon is increasing U.S. efforts to protect Syria's oil fields from the extremist group as well as from Syria itself and the country's Russian allies. It's a new high-stakes mission even as American troops are...

Syrian regime forces and the Turkish military clashed on Tuesday for the first time since Ankara launched an offensive in northeastern Syria three weeks ago, a war monitor said. "Heavy fighting erupted for the first time between the Syrian and Turkish armies," the Syrian Observatory...

Germany charged two alleged former Syrian secret service officers with participating in crimes against humanity, in what rights activists said Tuesday would be the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan and Eyad al-Gharib were arrested in February together...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 regime forces were killed and 8 more wounded by rebels on Monday following failed incurion attempts  into Kabana hilltops in coastal Latakia province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The elite Fourth Armoured Division backed by Iranian militias have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A newly-formed rebel group in central Homs province has attacked two security posts in the town of Rastan, according to statement issued Monday.   The ‘Resistance Brigades in Homs’ said in statement posted online that its members had targeted the headquarters...

More than 30 nations fighting the Islamic State group will gather in Washington on November 14 in a French-initiated meeting as the United States pulls troops from Syria, a US official said Monday. Ministers from nations in the coalition against the extremists will "look at the next steps...

Kurdish YPG forces have not fully withdrawn from a strip of northeastern Syria under a Russia-brokered accord that is about to expire, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Monday, as Ankara prepared to discuss its next steps with Moscow. Turkey began a military offensive in northeastern Syria...

U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said Monday that he would meet foreign ministers from Turkey, Iran and Russia in Geneva Tuesday, a day ahead of the first meeting of Syria's Constitutional Committee. Turkey's Mevlut Cavusoglu, Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif and Russia's Sergei Lavrov...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian National Army have seized new ground from regime-backed Kuridish forces near the town of Ras al-Ain in northeastern Syria as clashes are still ongoing, local activists said Monday. The clashes between both sides in a zone between the towns of Tal...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have thwarted fresh incursion attempts by Russian Special Forces in the southern countryside of Idlib province, field sources said. Clashes have been reported in Tal Ja’afar area as Russia's forces use advanced military equipment backed by...

Footage of the US special forces raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Syrian compound reportedly consisted of overhead surveillance footage and no audio, prompting questions over the extent of the dramatic licence taken by Donald Trump in describing the final moments of one of the most wanted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians were killed and others wounded by an improvised explosive device in al-Rai town near the Turkish border, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Turkish-backed Syrian National Army took control of the town in 2016, but since then scattred attacks are...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents on Syria’s Barisha village said they found the vest of Abu Bakr al-Baghdaid, the world's most wanted man that he was wearing in a propaganda video eared last May. The shadowy leader is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid, President Donald Trump...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led International coalition on Sunday has killed the spokesman of Daesh (ISIS) in northern Idlib province hours of the US dawn-raid that eliminated daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Ziad jarad, head of the political office in...