(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed five people, including three children, in a Kurdish-held town in northeast Syria Wednesday, an activist group said. The explosive-rigged vehicle detonated in Al-Qahtaniya, a town in Hasaka province, said the...

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Wednesday that talks with the U.S. aimed at averting the need for a Turkish military intervention into northern Syria had been "positive," according to state news agency Anadolu. "We witnessed with satisfaction that our partners grew closer to our...

Regime loyalists captured a town and a village from militants and allied rebels in northwest Syria Wednesday, after fierce clashes that killed nearly 30 combatants overnight, an activist group said. The town of Al-Zakat and the Al-Arbaeen village in Hama province came under regime control...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed and two more people were wounded Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in eastern Raqqa province, a citizen journalist group said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said Mohamed al-Aydan, local official in the Kurdish Democratic Union was...

Four civilians were killed in regime attacks in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, according to the White Helmets civil defense group on Tuesday.  The attacks targeted the towns of Khan Sheikhoun and Maarat Al-Numan in Idlib’s de-escalation zone, and Hama province's towns of Kafr...

Two people were killed in two car bombings late Monday in the opposition-controlled city of Jarabulus in northern Syria, according to local sources.  The first explosion targeted a car belonging to a local councilor, while the second blast targeted a vehicle belonging to the Free...

Turkey will pay a higher price later if it does not do what is necessary in northern Syria today, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday after vowing at the weekend to carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates. Turkey has undertaken two previous...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be "unacceptable" and the United States would prevent unilateral incursions, as tensions between Washington and Ankara simmer. On Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey, which already...

US military officials have arrived in Ankara for meetings aimed at preventing Turkey from carrying out an offensive against Washington’s Kurdish allies in northern Syria. The high-level meetings have been characterised by US officials as a last ditch effort to dissuade Turkey from launching...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hezbollah's drug trade came to surface in Damascus suburbs as complaints mount over the spread of drugs inside the secondary schools, local news site reported.   Captagon narcotic pills have become a real danger threatening teenagers of the western suburbs...

 Syrian militants have shelled the outskirts of the Hmeimim air base in northwest Syria, Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday. The air base was unaffected by the attack, the RIA news agency quoted the ministry as saying.

Damascus resumed air strikes on northwest Syria's Idlib Monday, a war monitor said, scrapping a ceasefire for the jihadist-run bastion and accusing its opponents of targeting an airbase of ally Russia. The northwestern region of some three million people is one of the last major centres of...

Turkish and American military officials have met for negotiations about establishing a safe zone in northeastern Syria to address Ankara's concerns about U.S-allied Syrian Kurdish forces in that region. The Turkish defense ministry tweeted on Monday that the meetings were taking place in...

After the fighting, Syrian farmer Abu Thaer returned to his farm to work. But he stepped on a landmine left behind by jihadists, changing his life for good. At a medical charity in Damascus, the 46-year-old from the southern province of Daraa lifts up his black track pants to reveal a...

Bent over a computer tablet in war-torn northwest Syria, cartoonist Amani al-Ali takes her pen to the screen to sketch life in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib. "I'm trying to get across what others struggle to say," said the 30-year-old artist, dressed in a long red jacket and...

The death toll of the deadly explosion at the Shayrat air base in central Homs province has reached a total of 31, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was unclear what had caused the deadly explosion at the Shayrat air base in Homs province....

Regime fire killed a civilian in northwestern province of Idlib Sunday, a monitor said, the first such death since a truce to protect the area. Air strikes on Idlib province and nearby areas have stopped since Thursday, when the government announced a ceasefire for the area following...

Turkey will carry out an operation east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria, in an area controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. Turkey has been running out of patience with the United States, which made an agreement with Ankara to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two Kurdish fighters killed in two blasts hit the former Daesh town of al-Shaddadi in northeastern Hasaka province, activists said Sunday. According to Malaz al-Yousif, Hasaka-based activist, a booby-trapped motorcycle went off on Saturday in the center of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime sent military pilots to Russia two months ago to follow a training on the Yak-130 twin seat trainer jet, a well-informed source in Syria's Air Force told Zaman al-Wasl.   Syria is set to receive 36 aircraft once its current conflict concludes, which...