Daesh (ISIS) has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from southern province of Swaida last week, a journalist in the area and an activist group said Sunday. Daesh killed the 19-year-old male student Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children,...

U.N. peacekeepers returned Thursday for the first time in years to the frontier between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, conducting joint patrols with Russian military police in a reflection of Moscow's deepening role in mediating between the decades-old foes in the volatile...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Saturday took full control of a desert territory at the Iraqi border in northeastern Syria, local activists said Saturday. The border line with Iraq and Deir Ezzor desert are under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces, such a gain...

May Skaf, a prominent Syrian actress and activist who emerged as a fiercely outspoken critic of President Bashar Assad's regime after the uprising began in 2011, was buried Friday in France, where she had fled after being freed from prison. The 49-year-old actress was found dead at her home...

The Jordanian army Thursday said it had killed a number of Daesh (ISIS) militants who had tried to approach its northern border with Syria. The incident Tuesday came as clashes raged between Syrian regime forces and "a gang of Daesh terrorists" in the Yarmuk Basin region of southwestern...

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Unknown assailants on Thursday killed senior commander in the powerful YPG militia in the northeastern city of Hasaka, local source said Thursday. Khoshaf Haskeh was killed in the western neighbourhood of the Kurdish- ontrolled city. Haskeh was the leader of a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A blast killed a woman and wounded others in the northwestern city of Idlib on Thursday, local reporter said. The car bomb hit thebus station in the extremist-held city.   Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Monday arrested three men said they were...

Israel said Thursday it saw potentially stabilizing benefits to Bashar Assad’s winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said it had killed seven Islamist insurgents in a rare air strike across the countries' frontier. The remarks, by Israel's defense minister, signal an...

Israel's defense minister described Syria's return to its pre-civil war situation as a given Thursday, and predicted that the Occupied-Golan Heights frontier would be quieter with Bashar Assad's central rule restored. "From our perspective, the situation is returning to how it was...

The road to Syria's border crossing with Jordan, closed by conflict in 2011, is ready for use and the Syrian regime is looking at prospects of reopening it after recovering the border from rebels, the Syrian transport minister said. Billions of dollars in annual trade moved through the...

 Four Syrian regime fighters were killed east of the capital, an activist group said Wednesday, in an ambush claimed by Daesh (ISIS). The militants struck Tuesday in a hilly area about 50 kilometers from Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "There were...

Japan says it's doing its utmost for the rescue of a Japanese journalist believed to be held in Syria after a video of a man appearing to be him was posted on the internet. Freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda was last heard from in Syria in 2015. Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga...

Russia on Tuesday said there were no plans for a major assault on Idlib, despite Bashar Assad earlier saying it was a priority to retake the province. "There's currently no question and can be no question of an operation, of a major assault on Idlib," Russia's Syria envoy Alexander...

The Syrian regime army and its allies gained full control of the Yarmouk Basin in southwestern Syria after routing Daesh (ISIS) militants, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said on Tuesday. The basin borders Israel and Jordan.  The ISIS affiliate, Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, was formed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham  on Monday has arrested three men said they were coordinating with the regime military intelligence and with Russian's Hameimym base. The jihadist group that controls most of the northern Idlib province has waged campaign against Daesh...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local opposition figure said people of Idlib province are not leaving the northern province towards regime-held areas, denying Russian reports published on Monday.   Khaled al-Khalaf, from the local council of Abu al-Thuhour town, said media outlets loyal to Bashar...

Officials from Turkey, Russia and Iran were holding technical talks Monday in Sochi, Russia, ahead of a 10th round of Syria peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, slated for July 31st. The Astana talks will address the latest situation in de-escalation zones in Syria's Idlib, the return of...

Pro-Syrian regime forces advanced in a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in southwest Syria Sunday, a military media center run by Damascus' ally Hezbollah reported, despite a threat to hostages the militants seized last week. Syrian state television broadcast footage from near the scene of the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group on Sunday has arrested 13 people over links with the Syrian regime, saying they seek reconciliation deal with the Assad forces, local sources said. The arrest raids targeted the town of al-Hubait in the southern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel commanders killed overnight by unknown assailants in the town of Maarrat al-Nou’man in northern Idlib province.  Abu Zaid al-Jammal and Osama al-Jamqra, former military commander in Alwyat Suqour al-Sham were killed when an armed group opened fire on them...