Turkish troop reinforcements entered Syria's rebel bastion of Idlib on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, a week after a deal between Ankara and Moscow averted a government offensive. Around 35 military vehicles travelled south down the main highway near the town of Saraqib after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Satellite images showed that the suspected US-led airstrikes on Aleppo city last Friday had targeted weapons depots in the Assad Academy for Military Engineering. The airstrikes rocked what activists reported as an Iranian weapon arsenal and training camps in the...

Russia said Monday it would equip Syria with sophisticated air defense systems, a move that could worsen a rift with Israel by limiting its ability to bomb across its northern border. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow would send Russia’s powerful S-300 ground-to-air missile...

Frontier agent: What’s your name?  Aisha: My name is Fatima! Frontier agent: do you have your identity card on you, Fatima? Aisha: I lost it when we left the house. This short interaction between the Iraqi girl Aisha Hameed, 7-year-old, and a member of...

The Kremlin on Monday accused Israeli pilots of "premeditated actions" over the downing of a Russian plane in Syria last week, warning it will harm relations between the two countries. "According to information of our military experts, the reason (behind the downing) were premeditated...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Israeli naval boats have entered the Syrian territorial waters, seeking to find the wreckage of the downed Russian Ilyushin-20 with 15 troops on board was shot down by a Syrian air defense missile on September 17, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The...

The Russian military Sunday said "misleading" information from the Israeli airforce caused the downing of a Russian plane in Syria, and denounced the "adventurism" of Israeli pilots. Military spokesman Igor Konashenkov presented the results of an investigation of how a Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 111-year-old man has been killed by Kurdish-led forces as the US-backed group pressed gains against the Islamic State militant group in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activists said. Sheikh Hassan al-Rahabi was shot dead on Wednesday by a sniper in the village...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 SDF fighters were killed in Daesh attacks on their checkpoints in eastern Deir Ezzor province, activist said Saturday. Taj al-Allow said two fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed by an improvised explosive device in the town of...

Israel’s coordination with Russia on its attacks in Syria remains unchanged despite the deadly downing of a Russian plane, and the Jewish state retains its right to decide on military actions, an Israeli official said Friday. Syrian air defenses mistakenly shot down the military plane following...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Suspected US-led airstrikes rocked the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, local activists reported. Footage surfaced on social media showed plumes of smoke above the neighborhoods of al-Hamdaniyah and al-Mashhad. Activists said the missile attack had targeted...

Turkey on Friday said that steps to remove members of the “moderate opposition” from Idlib region were unacceptable. President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, made the comment at a news conference. Turkey has agreed with Russia on a demilitarized zone in the Idlib region,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 Islamic State fighters killed by the Kurdish forces on Thursday as the US-backed group pressed gains against the militant group in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activist said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have seized half of the village of...

Israel must provide Moscow with more information about the downing of a Russian military aircraft near the Syrian coast earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday, the Interfax news agency reported. Fifteen Russian crew were killed when the IL-20...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Thursday has executed 5 Daesh militants in the northwestern province of Idlib, saying they involved in series of attacks against civilians and the members of the former al-Qaeda group. One civilian was also executed by Tahrir al-Sham over links...

Memorandum on Stabilization of the Situation in the Idlib De-escalation Area The Republic of Turkey and the Russian Federation, as guarantors of the observance of the ceasefire regime in the Syrian Arab Republic.  -guided by memorandum on creation of de-escalation areas in the...

Thousands of residents of Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib headed home within 48 hours of the announcement of a deal to avoid a government offensive to retake it, a war monitor said on Wednesday. As air strikes intensified earlier this month, the looming threat of a Russian-backed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish-led Raqqa Local Council said Tuesday that  94 bodies have been been discovered at the Old Mosque in Raqqa, the one-time  capital of the Islamic State's extremist group. Abdullah al-Arian, senior official in the c ouncil, said 68 bodies were...

The Russian military says an Israeli raid on Syria triggered a chain of events that led to its Il-20 plane being shot down by a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile. Moscow reserves the right to respond accordingly. On Monday evening, four Israeli F-16 fighter jets attacked targets in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Israel against conducting air raids on Syria like the one that led to the downing of a Russian warplane by Syrian air defense missile, killing all 15 aboard. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Putin to express sorrow over the...