Clashes on Sunday between Turkish-backed rebel factions vying for influence in the northern Syrian town of Afrin left 25 fighters dead, a war monitor said. Turkish troops and allied rebel groups seized the Afrin region from Kurdish forces in March after a two-month air and ground offensive....

The U.S.-led anti-militant coalition hit back Sunday at reports its airstrikes on a Daesh (ISIS) holdout in eastern Syria had killed civilians, appearing to blame their deaths on regime forces. More than seven years into the country's civil war, multiple offensives have whittled down...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Turkey prepares for new offensive to uproot Kurdish militias near the border, the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is still trying to mobilize the Arab tribes to join the US-led militias in northeastern province of Hasaka. Most of the key Tribal figures...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- EU has chosen Deema Alam Farraj, a Jordanian social media activist who appeared in a video praising Bashar al-Assad, in its human campaigns, such a move contradicts the principles of the international organization.    A quick tour in Farraj’s official twitter...

A spokesman of Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist movement has been killed in a military operation in the country's northeastern Borno state, the army said late Saturday. “Reports available reveal that one Sale Ahmad Sale a. k. a. Baban Hassan the leader of Al-Barnawi Media group, a faction...

In response to growing Taliban attacks, Afghan forces have stepped up group assaults on the militants, killing at least 30 in the Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, an official confirmed on Saturday. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar’s governor, told Anadolu Agency...

Syrian regime forces Saturday took back control of Daesh's (ISIS) last holdout in southern Syria after months of fighting, a war monitor said. Regime forces retook Tulul al-Safa, between the provinces of Damascus and Swaida, "after Daesh fighters withdrew from it and headed east into...

Coalition air strikes Saturday killed at least 36 civilians related to Daesh (ISIS) in a militant holdout in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, a Britain-based monitor said. Seventeen children were among the family members killed in Abu Hassan village of Deir Ezzor province, the...

For the first time, the United States voted Friday against an annual U.N. resolution condemning Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights, dropping its practice of abstaining in the vote. The nonbinding resolution was adopted in a General Assembly committee by a vote of 151 to 2, with the United...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite fragile buffer zone deal and mounting skirmishes, thousands of people came out to the streets of rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces to rally against the Syria regime and the key ally Russia.   Demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad has  directed calls for reserve military service in the province of Latakia. These calls for recruitment included a large number of people from Syrian areas who signed agreements of reconciliation. These requests coincided with large media campaigns...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the start of winter and the crushing storm rains in the eastern province of Raqqa, emerged the urgent need for large bridges on the Euphrates River and its tributaries along with the small bridges on the irrigation channels and valleys of Sailiya. ...

The Russian military says nearly 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned home to their country in recent months. Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev of the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters Friday that nearly 6,000 people returned to Syria in the last week alone, according to data collected by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 23 regime troops were killed and wounded Friday in a surprise attack by rebels near the planned buffer zone in the northwestern province of Hama. The attack targeted three checkpoints for regime army forces near the village of Forrow in the Ghap Plain in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The considerable increase in the phenomenon of homelessness in the public gardens and streets of the city of Latakia was concurrent with the decrease in the exchange rate of the Syrian Pound since the end of 2011, which equally coincided with the acceleration of the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 18 civilians, including 13 children and 4 women, have been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Daesh news agency said Thursday. Amaq reported that the US-led airstrikes on the villages of Baghouz and al-Sousa...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have imposed royalties on buses carrying people of rebel-held areas in northern Idlib to regime-held areas in Hama province, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The ‘crossing tariff’ reached 400$ for each bus wants to enter Hama province via ...

Bashar al-Assad has called on the country's Druze community to do military service, days after members of the minority were released following a mass abduction in July by the Islamic State group. Sweida province is the heartland of Syria's Druze minority, who made up around three percent of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 people, including women and children, have been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Daesh news agency said Tuesday. Amaq reported that the 25 airstrikes on the villages of al-Sha’fah and al-Kamsha near the Iraqi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Families of Hama prison detainees have protested in front of the notorious prison as their sons began hunger strike against arbitrary death sentences by the regime's Terror Court, activists said Tuesday. The sit-in that organized by mothers and wives of the detainees...