(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have killed eight civilians from the same family, 3 women and 5 children, i n the last Daesh-held pocket in Deir Ezzor province,  local activists said Tuesday.   The coalition has continued to target the Baghouz town in the...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two car bomb blasts rocked the in the northern city of Manbij, targeting Kurdish-led militias, a war monitor group reported Tuesday. One of the bombs ripped through a military car near the Martyrs Cemetery in the city of Manbij, which is controlled by...

Millions of children living in countries affected by conflict and disaster lack access to vital child protection services, putting their safety, well-being and futures at risk, UNICEF warned today as it appealed for $3.9 billion to support its work for children in humanitarian crises...

A suicide bomb attack targeted the headquarters of a council that governs the insurgent-held Idlib region of northwestern Syria on Tuesday, killing a number of people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack in Idlib city was carried out by a woman, the Observatory...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people have been wounded in a car bomb blast in the rebel-held town of Azaz, near the Turkish border, activists said Monday. The explosion occurred near the Old Bazaar east of the town, few miles from the Turkish frontier. Two civilians in...

The once-sprawling "caliphate" of Daesh (ISIS) has been reduced to a four-square-kilometer pocket of territory in eastern Syria, a senior Kurdish commander said Monday. With support from a U.S.-led military coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces are in the final stages of an assault...

Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has detained scores of residents in Idlib, following the capture of the province by the jihadi group this month, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. At least 11 civilian residents had been working documenting abuses by HTS or protesting against the...

Turkey is aiming to form safe zones in northern Syria so that around 4 million of Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey could return, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Istanbul, Erdogan also said nearly 300,000 Syrians had already returned and that he expected millions...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The spread of Iranian goods in rebel-held areas has aroused resentment among the traders and residents as accusations directed to the powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which controls the crossings. The ‘Salvation Government’, a domestic governing body close to Tahrir...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Sunday have stepped up its aerial and ground bombardment on rebel-held areas in Hama and Idlib provinces where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone in September, local reporter said Sunday. At least 14 towns and villages came under...

The wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has undergone a "successful" operation as part of treatment for early-stage breast cancer, the presidency said on Sunday. "Asma al-Assad continues her treatment against the malignant tumour," it said on its Facebook page. "Breast...

The new U.N. special envoy for Syria held talks Sunday with the head of the Arab League, whose members appear divided about whether to readmit the war-torn country. The League, which will hold its annual summit in Tunisia in March, suspended Syria's membership in November 2011 as the...

Syrian state-run media is reporting that the country's air defense systems have destroyed three "hostile" targets in the country's coastal region over a Russian air base. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says explosions heard Sunday resulted from the air defense...

Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of the the last holdout of Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria, an activist group said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, are battling to expel the last militants from hamlets in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Friday blocked the crossing of 400 tribal figures from northeastern Syria to regime-held Hama province to participate in a conference denouncing Turkish intervention in Syria, local sources said.   The tribal figures...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led forces, backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, have been so close to uproot Daesh (ISIS) from   the eastern province of Deir Ezzor  as the militants besieged in tiny enclave in Baghouz village, activists said Friday.  The US-backed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four explosions rocked the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo province on Thursday, leaving one child girl killed and 20 more civilians wounded, local activists said. Four motorbikes laden with explosives hit the towns of al-Ghandoura, Qabassin and al-Bab in...

Even as the United States plans its military withdrawal from Syria, it has taken a step towards increasing political and economic pressure on the regime of Bashar Al Assad. The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill late on Tuesday night that will allow the White House to...

Nearly 5,000 people, including almost 500 Islamic State fighters, have since Monday left the jihadist group's last bastion in eastern Syria, where IS continues to lose ground, a Britain-based monitor said. Kurdish-led forces, backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, have been...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 600 bodies to be exhumed from al-Fakhikha village south of Raqqa city, once the capital Daesh’s (ISIS) self-styled caliphate, Local Council said Monday. Al-Fakhikha is the 14th mass grave in the northeastern province.  Raqqa was liberated in...