Top German government leaders failed to decide on the future of the country's top spy Thursday, as a controversy he triggered risks a new crisis threatening Berlin's uneasy coalition. Leading politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel "adjourned" their talks until Tuesday, an...

More than 360,000 people have been killed across war-ravaged Syria in seven years, a monitoring group said Thursday, in a new toll for the brutal conflict. It came amid rising international concern that a looming Syrian government assault against rebels in the northwest province of...

Turkey is reinforcing its military posts inside Syria’s rebel-held province of Idlib, Turkish and Syrian rebels sources say, seeking to deter a government offensive that it says would unleash a humanitarian disaster on its border. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that an assault by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel-suspected rockets hit Iranian camp near the coastal city of Latakia that is a bastion of Bashar al-Assad, local sources said Wednesday. Heavy losses reported in the rocket attack on Damsarkho village as the regime forces surrounded the area, denying access to...

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish intelligence agents in Syria have captured a man wanted over a deadly 2013 bomb attack and brought him back to Turkey for questioning. Anadolu Agency said Wednesday Yusuf Nazik was captured in Syria's Latikia province. He was wanted for...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Tuesday that a Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib could scatter thousands of foreign militants abroad, posing a security threat to the West. "There are in all likelihood dozens of French fighters from both...

Coalition-backed ground forces in Syria have begun what is expected to be the final phase of an operation to clear the Islamic State group from a pocket of terrain, officials said Tuesday. The ground offensive, dubbed Operation Roundup, is being conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces...

An ambush by the Islamic State jihadist group has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria's southern province of Sweida, a Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday. The attack occurred late Monday in the rural Tulul al-Safa area of the province, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Grand Mufti of the Syria regime, Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, has warned the Europeans against the threat of mosques, calling them to besiege and close them, under the pretext of the Syrian experience with mosques, from which all the "problems" has erupted. The recent...

More than 30,000 people have so far fled their homes in northwest Syria since the regime and allied forces resumed air and ground bombardments there last week, the United Nations agency coordinating relief efforts said Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The education process has been suspended in stricken province of Idlib  as the Syrian regime trigger for its deadliest offensive in seven years of brutal war. The Education Directorate said the schools and education centers have turned into main target to regime...

Bashar al-Assad has approved a gas attack in the Idlib province, which is the country’s last rebel stronghold, a report on Sunday said. Reports of Assad's approval comes about a week after President Trump warned the strongman and his allies not to “recklessly attack” the province. Trump...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-backed rebel group arrested 4 Daesh militants near the border crossing of al-Tanaf who were sneaking to Iraq, commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Asaad Kahil said the Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo had captured the jihadists who were fleeing the Sweida desert...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Liberation Front, key rebel group in northwestern Syria, have pounded the Mujanzarat School in Hama province with rocket-propelled grenades in retaliation to the regime's heavy bombing on Idlib province, local activists said Sunday.  The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's military said Sunday that two U.S. F-15 fighter jets had dropped phosphorus bombs over Syria's Deir Ezzor province Saturday, the TASS and RIA news agencies reported. The air strikes targeted the village of Hajeen and resulted in fires, the Russian military...

Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib was Saturday targeted by the "most violent" Russian air strikes in a month, a monitor said, after the failure of a three-way summit on the Syrian conflict. The renewed strikes came a day after the leaders of rebel backer Turkey and regime allies...

 The Syrian regime has been using so-called barrel bombs – containers filled with explosive material since 2012 to kill as many victims as possible and inflict as much wide destruction as possible.  According to new report by the Syrian Network For Human Rights (SNHR), the...

Clahes between Kurdish forces and regime fighters in the divided northeastern city of Qamishli killed 18 combatants Saturday, the Kurdish forces and an activist group said. The rare flare-up in the Kurdish-majority city near the Turkish border saw 11 regime fighters and seven Kurds...

Russian air strikes on Syria's last major rebel bastion Saturday were the "most violent" since Damascus and its ally Moscow threatened to attack it around a month ago, an activist group said. Nearly 60 Russian air raids hit the south and southeast of Idlib province in less than three...

Russian and Syrian regime warplanes pounded towns in opposition-held Idlib province Saturday, a day after a summit of the presidents of Turkey, Iran and Russia failed to agree on a ceasefire that would forestall a Russian-backed offensive. Witnesses and rescuers said at least a dozen...