Russia has sent over 63,000 troops to Syria over the course of its involvement in the conflict, the Russian defense ministry said Wednesday. A total of 63,012 Russian personnel have "received combat experience" in the war-torn country, the ministry said in a video about Russia's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Médecins Sans Frontières withdrew its staff from the National Hospital in al-Azizia in the northeastern Hasaka province after threats from unknown armed group, local media said Wednesday. 10 foreign doctors (English, Sudanese and Pakistani) from the MSF left service at...

The leader of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate has vowed to fight on in Idlib province, the country's last major rebel stronghold, in the face of a possible government offensive. Abu Mohammed al-Golani of the militant Levant Liberation Committee says state-sponsored surrenders of rebel...

(SNHR)- As five years have passed since the most heinous chemical attack the Syrian people has ever known, the pain, even after five years, is still deeply rooted not only because the criminal is still ruling Syria, but also because he followed his crime with hundreds of other attacks....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed and another was wounded in a landmine explosion in northeastern Hasaka province, local activist said Monday. The two brothers, who work in fuel smuggling, were escaping the Asayish, the Kurdish domestic security south of Hasaka city. One the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Executive Head of Syrian Democratic Council said the Kurdish-led forces might merge in the regime forces after she revealed her top meeting with Bashar al-Assad that took place in Damascus two weeks ago. Ilham Ahmed told BBC Arabic on Saturday that the US-backed...

(Zaman AlWasl)- Huge explosion rocked a base for powerful Tahrir al Sham jihadist group in northern Idlib province, leaving 3 fighters dead, local activists said Saturday. The former all Qaeda’ branch in Syria controls most of Idlib, the last territory out of Bashar al-Assad's control. ...

US-backed forces have repelled a raid by the Islamic State group targeting barracks housing American and French troops in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces and the US-led coalition supporting them were on high alert after...

The United States said Friday it is suspending $230 million budgeted for stabilization projects in Syria, citing the aid pledged by other partners in the coalition fighting the Islamic State group. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has "redirected" the funds originally set aside to help...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-led coalition airstrikes have pounded regime-held areas in eastern Deir Ezzor province, activist said Thursday. The strikes hit regime bastions in al-Shamiyyah town in the western bank of Euphrates River, activist Taj al-Allow told Zaman al-Wasl. The...

Saudi Arabia said early Friday that it has contributed $100 million to northeast Syria for "stabilization projects" in areas once held by Daesh (ISIS) and now controlled by U.S.-backed forces. The Saudi Embassy in Washington said the money "will save lives, help facilitate the return of...

The Russian military says the number of drone attacks on its main base in Syria has increased. The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, says in just one month air defense assets have downed 45 drones targeting the Hemeimeem air base. The base in the province of...

 Iraq launched an air strike on a gathering of Daesh (ISIS) fighters in neighboring Syria, killing members of the militant group who planned cross-border attacks, its military said on Thursday. F-16 fighter jets bombed and destroyed an "operations room" where the militants were meeting....

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian artillery killed a child and wounded dozen in northern Idlib province as regime forces step up its aerial and ground offensive on northwestern Syria, local activists said Wednesday. The attacks targeted the town of Khan Sheikhoun and al-Tamana'....

An antiquities museum in Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib said to house one of the world's oldest dictionaries reopened on Monday after five years, an AFP correspondent said. Dozens of visitors trickled into the museum in Idlib city to see what an official said represented just a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two women and a child boy were killed in regime airstrikes on the northern countryside of Hama, local activists said Monday. For the past 72 hours, the regime warplanes have carried out tens of airstrikes, pounding the southern countryside of Idlib and northern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A kidnapped field doctor in northwestern Syria has been freed after family paid $100,000 ransom, local sources said Sunday.   Dr. Khalil al-Agha, Head of Health Directorate in opposition-held areas in coastal region and one of the medics who joined the...

 An explosion of suspected US-led airstrikes at a weapons depot in northern Idlib province killed at least 39 civilians, including 12 children, on Sunday, a war monitor and activists said. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the US strikes had targeted depot belongs to the former al-Qaeda...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Social media activists surfaced footage for Lebanese police beating a Syrian refugee in detention center. According to Lebanese news feeds the refugee was subjected to a severe torture by the police of  of Armon town in the Aley district.  The video...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 Daesh militants and their families have surrendered to to the US-backed Kurdish forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Saturday. The militants have agreed to lay down their arms, in a rare move by the harlinder militants. Ten...