(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Syrians came out to the streets of rebel-held areas on Friday to rally against the imminent regime offensive on the northern province.  At least 20 civilians killed in the Russian airstrikes on Idlib in the past 72 hours, four today, as hundreds of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a ceasefire in the rebel-held region of Idlib in northwest Syria Friday and said an anticipated government assault on insurgents there could result in a massacre. But Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Moscow opposed a truce, and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes on Friday have extended its aerial campaign on northern idlib province, striking an array of villages under rebels control despite international warning of humanitarian disaster, activists said.  The strikes targeted rebels-held areas in...

A three-way summit between the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey that is expected to decide the fate of Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib opened in Tehran Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tehran shortly after his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia launched major arrest campaign tracking Arab residents in the eastern province of Raqqa, local activists said Friday. The Kurdish Democratic Party units backed by the domestic Asayish security stormed the city of Tabqa on Thursday, where...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday in new report that no less than three massacres were perpetrated in August by the warring parties in Syria.   The report notes that the first two years of the popular uprising saw the largest portion of ethnic and sectarian...

The political wing of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has started forming a unified administration for its territory, a move that would consolidate its authority in northern and eastern Syria. The SDF controls around a quarter of the country, much of it captured from Islamic...

The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey meet Friday in Tehran for a summit set to decide the future of Idlib province amid fears of a humanitarian disaster in Syria's last major rebel bastion. Hundreds of civilians fled the northwestern province Thursday as government forces and their...

The US Treasury announced sanctions Thursday targeting a network of business groups that supplies fuels to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, along with one that handles regime trade with the Islamic State group. The Treasury said the four individuals and five companies...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime intelligence carried out arrest campian in the desert town of Dumayr despite a reconciliation deal reached last April, residents said Friday. The Air Intelligence have arrested 25 rebel fighters from the Martyr Ahmed al-Abdu Units who agreed to lay...

Hundreds of civilians have fled villages near the front line in Idlib province fearing an imminent regime assault on the country's last major rebel bastion, a monitor said Thursday. Russia-backed regime forces have been massing around the northwestern province for weeks, while on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime intelligence has arrested a former rebel commander who signed a recolcination deal with the Syrian regime in southern Daraa province two months ago, activists said Tuesday. Ayham al-Jahmani was the commander of al-Mansour Brigade before laying down...

Syria could be spared another bloodbath if Russia and Turkey help broker a “soft solution” for the rebel-held region of Idlib, the UN said Tuesday, as Washington promised a swift response in the event of a chemical weapons attack. As Syrian troops massed near the northwestern region of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A drug toxicity at a camp for displaced people near the northern city of Hasaka has sickened 16 people, including 13 children, medics told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. The displaced people from the camp of al-Sad south of Hasaka city took ill on Tuesday after taking wrong...

 Israel has carried out more than 200 attacks against Iranian targets in Syria in the last two years, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday, in a rare summary of its campaign. According to regional sources, Israel began carrying out military strikes in Syria in 2013 against...

 Air raids have pounded areas in Syria's last rebel-held province of Idlib, killing at least 14 civilians and raising further concerns that an all-out regime offensive is only a matter of time. The strikes on Tuesday came as the United Nations urged Russia, key Bashar al-Assad...

Ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, a charity said Tuesday, in what is believed to be one of Africa’s worst mass poaching sprees. Most of the animals killed were large bulls carrying heavy tusks, Elephants Without Borders said. The grim...

Syria's Kurdish-led northeast will not be given special treatment and will be dealt with in the same way as other parts of Syria, a regime minister said on Tuesday. "We cannot give any Syrian province something which differentiates it from other provinces or ethnicities, or (allow it)...

Syrian state media and an independent monitoring group are reporting an Israeli air raid targeting regime-held areas in the center and west of the country. Syria's SANA news agency says Israeli jets flying at high altitude above Lebanon fired several missiles on the area of Wadi Ayoun...

Turkey's Red Crescent is stepping up preparations inside Syria to shelter people displaced by an expected military offensive against the rebel-held region of Idlib, the organization's head said on Tuesday. Turkey, which already hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees, has warned...