(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday have seized ground from Daesh in northeastern Hasaka province, taking advantage form a heavy aerial bombing by the International Coalition, activists said. The YPG-led alliance took two villages near the town of al-Shaddadi...

At least two Syrian civilians were tortured to death by the YPG militia organization in northeastern Hasakah province, local sources said on Saturday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to security reasons, told Anadolu Agency the civilians were abducted a month ago...

Turkey has completed the construction of a 764-kilometer (475-mile) concrete wall along its border with Syria, according to a Turkish official on Saturday TOKI, the state backed housing developer, built 564 km (350 mi) of the wall, while the governorates of the border provinces built...

German prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for a top Syrian intelligence officer accused of overseeing the torture and murder of hundreds of detainees, a media report said Friday. German news weekly Der Spiegel said Jamil Hassan, the head of Syria's notorious air force...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis warned Friday it would be a "strategic blunder" to pull out of Syria before U.N.-led peace efforts had made progress. A U.S.-led coalition is conducting military operations against Daesh (ISIS) in Syria and Mattis said they must not leave a "vacuum" that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) used at least 10 suicide bombers on Friday in a massive attack on Albu Kamal, in which they retook parts of the eastern Syrian town, a monitor said. At least 25 government and allied fighters were killed in the offensive, the militants' largest in months,...

The dominant U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish party in control of northeastern Syria is prepared to hold talks with the Syrian regime over the future of the area, senior Kurdish officials said Wednesday. A Damascus-based political group called the "Syrian Democratic Front," which is seen as...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three American Army troops were killed by Daesh attack in northeastern Hasaka province as its allied Kurdish-led forces launch a major attack on last ISIS pockets near the Iraqi border, local activists said Friday. The attack occurred near the town of al-Shaddadi...

The death toll from air strikes thought to have been carried out by Russian jets on a residential area in northwestern province of Idlib has risen to 38 civilians, a Britain-based monitor said Friday. The toll, which includes five children, increased after bodies were pulled from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten civilians killed and dozens wounded in Russian airstrikes rocked a de-escalation zone in Idlib province, media activist said Thursday. Russia's warplanes fired four missiles on the town of Zaradna in then orthern countryside of Idlib, activist Mohamed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday have seized a ground from Daesh as the US-backed group launch a major attack on last ISIS pockets in northeastern Hasaka province, local activists said. The Kurdish-led forces took three villages and seven farms in the...

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia was not planning to withdraw from Syria for now, adding that the military would stay there for as long as it was in Russia's interest. "We are not yet planning a withdrawal of these military forces," Putin told a televised phone-in session....

Iraq launched an air strike on a Daesh (ISIS) target inside neighboring Syria Thursday, the military said. F-16 fighter jets destroyed a building where members of the ultra-hardline Sunni group's leadership were operating, it said in a statement. Daesh, which once occupied a...

The head of NATO on Wednesday said he welcomed a Turkish-U.S. agreement on a roadmap for Manbij, Syria. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's comment came during a press conference ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. The roadmap on Manbij was announced on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 civilians on Wednesday were killed and dozen wounded in a Syrian airstrike hit an aid center in the northern province of Idlib, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.   The airstrike of Su-22 has targeted a crowd of people were waiting their food rations...

 An international human rights group on Tuesday accused the U.S. and its allies of showing little regard for civilians' lives while attacking the Syrian city that was once the de-facto capital of Daesh, the Islamic State group (ISIS), an allegation denied by the American military....

Turkish foreign minister said Tuesday YPG/PKK terrorists will be disarmed under a roadmap drawn up by Turkey and the U.S. to rid Manbij, Syria, of the terror group. The roadmap on Manbij was announced after a meeting between Cavusoglu and his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo on Monday....

An investigation commissioned by Austria's defense minister has concluded there was no wrongdoing by Austrian peacekeepers in a 2012 incident in which smugglers ambushed Syrian secret police in the Golan Heights. The probe followed the leaking of a video apparently filmed by Austrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in the Turkish-backed Syrian forces said a ceasefire to be declared soon in northern Syria. Mustaga Saijeri from Liwa al-Mu'tassem, key unit in the Free Syria Army said opposition-held areas in Aleppo, Hama and Idlib provinces to be included in the...

The U.S. hopes to establish control over the Iraq-Syria border and has deployed troops to Iraq’s Sinjar Mountain region for this purpose, according to a spokesman for the Arab tribes of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. “Roughly 150 U.S. troops in about 20 armored vehicles have recently...