A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in eastern Syria, engaging in deadly battles with U.S.-backed forces. Cornered in the desert near the Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 300 civilians, mostly women and children, have been evacuated from the battleground of Hajin town through humanitarian corridors on Saturday, Kurdish media outlets said. The influx of people out of Daesh pocket in eastern Deir Ezzor province has followed heavy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six regime army officers were killed Friday when a landmine exploded inside their base in southern Daraa province, pro-regime news feeds said. The explosion took place in Battalion 210 near the town Al-Sanamayn. More than 125,000 pro-regime forces have been...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bulldozers of the US Army in northern city of Manbij have been digging day and night looking for archaeological treasures buried in the Kurdish-held town, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Manbej, 80 km north-east of Aleppo, is one of the oldest cities in Syria,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been seven months since the Eastern Ghouta suburbs fell to regime control but living conditions and public services have not been improved, residents say. The eastern enclave of Damascus is largely neglected by the government what has negatively affected the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians were wounded Wednesday in fresh artillery fire by regime forces on rebel-held province of Idlib where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone in September,, activists said. At least 45 artillery shells hit the town of Khan Sheikhoun, leaving huge...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 25 people in key Daesh pocket in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the militant group’s news agency said Wednesday. The International coalition warplanes carried out more than 40 raids on the town of Hajin, killing 25 people,...

The United Nations has reports of Daesh (ISIS) executing people perceived as cooperating with rebel fighters in Deir al-Zor governorate in eastern Syria, the U.N. human rights boss said on Wednesday. Michelle Bachelet, speaking to a news conference in Geneva, voiced deep concern for...

Russian, Turkish, German leaders agreed to hold a new quadrilateral summit on Syria if need be, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday. Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said: "We agreed both with [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan and [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel that when...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes erupted Monday evening between former al-Qaeda branch and Ahrar al-Sham Movement in northern Idlib province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has prevented the key unit in the National Liberation Front from setting up a checkpoint in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Monday have taken ground inside Hajin town, main Daesh stronghold in eastern Syria, local activists said. The Kurdish-led alliance, backed by US  airstrikes, has seized control of al-Hawama neighborhood and the National...

A senior Hezbollah source said Monday neither the group nor Iranian positions in Syria had been struck last week during what Syrian state media had reported as an attack south of Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel carried out a missile attack in the area last...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Monday have intensified its artillery shelling on rebel-held town of Jarjanaz in northern Idlib province amid mass exodus from the town, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. No casualties have been reported in the artillery fire at Jarjanaz,...

 U.S.-led war planes targeted an Islamic State leader on Sunday in Syria responsible for killing hostages including an American, Washington’s envoy to the coalition fighting the jihadist group said. “Earlier today, coalition air forces conducted precision strikes against a number of...

A 54-year-old Argentinian woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home Saturday, a Syrian rebel official said. History teacher Nancy Roxana Papa had accepted the invitation of a Syrian man she had met online three years earlier...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in new legal report that at least 15 people died due to torture in Syria last month.   The report notes that the international law completely prohibits torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. This being a...

The lawyer of a top Palestinian official in Jerusalem arrested for illegally collaborating with Palestinian security services says an Israeli court has released his client to house arrest. Lawyer Rami Othman says the court ruled Sunday the Palestinians' Jerusalem governor, Adnan Ghaith,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Sunday it had thwarted  a car-bomb attack by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province amid mass displacement for tens of families from battlefield areas. SDF fighters have been attempting to take Daesh's last Syrian...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday he should hold another summit to discuss the situation in Idlib province where the two countries are trying to create a sustainable demilitarised zone. Erdogan made the suggestion during a meeting with...

Violence killed 231 civilians in war-torn Syria in November, according to a Syrian NGO on Saturday.  In a statement, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said 89 children and 31 women were among those killed in the previous month.  The rights group said 79...