(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel factions in southern Daraa province have merged under one task command as the regime army mobilizes for a campaign to regain an area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, activists and rebels commanders said Wednesday. Rebels have been on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched surprise attack on regime checkpoints in coastal Turkman mountain, killing and wounding at least 20 troops, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. Pro-regime news feeds said 9 forces, including 3 officers, were killed in the attack on...

The Syrian army stepped up shelling of opposition-held parts of the southwest as it mobilizes for a campaign to regain the area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, opposition sources said. Violence erupted at the frontline town of Kafr Shams, near the Syrian-held Golan...

Turkish Armed Forces on Wednesday began a second round of patrolling in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as part of the objective to rid the area of the YPG/PKK terror group. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground, armored vehicles belonging to the Turkish military...

People from Manbij, Syria living just across the border in southeastern Turkey expressed approval of Turkish forces taking up patrols in the city under a new deal to rid the region of terrorists and provide stability. The refugees living in Sanliurfa are very happy, as their hopes to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former al-Qaeda group is tracking ISIS sleeper cells in northern Idlib province after a series of assassinations targeted commanders of the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria. Senior commander in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham told Zaman al-Wasl that an ISIS sleeper cell was...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Brigadier  general  killed by rebels when he was heading the southern Daraa province with his Battalion 242 on Tuesday as regime army sends huge reinforcement to border area with Jordan. Activists said rebels have ambushed Mazen Ahmed Barakat's...

Rebel shellfire slammed into the southern Syrian city of Swaida on Tuesday for the first time in three years, an activist group said, as fresh regime reinforcements arrived in the area. The government holds most of Swaida province but rebels still control much of the nearby Deraa and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Hezbollah militia have pounded a border territory with Jordan, leaving dozen wounded, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. The strategic region of al-Lajat, including the town of al-Masika, has been rocked by hundreds of artillery shells,...

Turkish soldiers patrolling in Manbij are giving locals hope that they can go back home, according to a prominent longtime resident of the northeastern Syria city. Ibrahim Alhaji, who served a decade as an undersecretary at Syria’s Justice Ministry after 12 years as a judge and...

Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, on Tuesday met with senior Turkish, Russian, and Iranian officials towards the establishment of a constitutional committee for the war-battered country. The delegations entered the UN at Geneva on Tuesday morning for the closed-door...

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned a U.S. airstrike on a post of the pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi forces near border with Syria. “We condemn the act of targeting forces fighting the Daesh terrorist group in Syria and Iraq,” the ministry said in a statement....

The Syrian Turkmen Assembly (STA) Monday welcomed the Manbij roadmap devised by Turkey and the U.S., saying that the deal would not have been reached if Turkey had not launched Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin. STA leader Mohamed Wajih Joma told Anadolu Agency that the Manbij...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels are on alert as the regime forces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian militias have been mobilizing troops to launch major offensive in southern Syria despite warning from Washington, local sources said.  The regime forces seek to split up the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes erupted Monday between the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and Syrian rebels in southern Quneitra province, local activists said. Hezbollah militants have intensified their assault in the southwest region despite a clear warning by the US to take firm and appropriate...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Syrian Kurdish militia fighters were leaving northern Syria's Manbij area. Turkey's armed forces announced earlier that Turkish and U.S. soldiers had started independent patrols along the line separating Turkish-controlled areas...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll in an overnight bombing raid on pro-regime forces in eastern Syria has risen to 52 loyalist fighters, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday. "Among them are at least 30 Iraqi fighters and 16 Syrians, including 4 officers and 8...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior rebel commander killed early Monday by unknown assailants in northern Idlib province, local source said. Khalil Ismael Ersan, deputy commander of Jaish al-Ahrar, was assassinated with his son in the town of Joubas in the southern countryside of Idlib when...

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance Sunday ousted Daesh (ISIS) from a bastion in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, it said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by U.S.-led coalition air power, have been battling to expel the militants from the last villages they hold in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday have seized the town of Tal al-Shayer from Daesh in the northeastern province of Hasaka, activists said. The next step for the SDF after Tal Shayer is the town of al-Dshaisha, according to activist Mohamed al-Kheder....