(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces took a border village from Daesh in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, activists said Monday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with the support of the Iraqi army have seized the town of al-Baouz al-Tahtani as both...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh news feeds said Monday at least 40 regime troops were killed by the militant group in the southern neighborhoods of Damascus as regime forces stepped up its ground and aerial offensive on last ISIS and Tahrir al-Sham pockets in the capital. Daesh (ISIS)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Conjoined twin boys were born in the northern city of Aleppo in a rare medical incident, medic told Zaman Al Wasl Monday. Dr. Amin Saleh Qabanadh said the twins, who weighed less than 8.3lb (3.8kg), were joined at the chest, with hearts in the same sac. Qabnadh...

Negotiators from Iran, Russia and Turkey gathered in Kazakhstan's capital Astana Monday, hoping to make progress on a political settlement in Syria as diplomatic tensions fan out across the region. The two-day talks are the first time the three foreign powers most deeply involved in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces stepped up its ground and aerial offensive on last ISIS and Tahrir al-Sham pockets in southern Damascus neighborhoods, local activists said Sunday. Daesh (ISIS) militants have been holed up there after weeks of intense bombardment on the al-Hajar...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of families have evacuated their homes in northeastern Hasaka province to avoid an imminent floods due to rise of water level in the Khabur and Jijk rivers, local activists said Sunday. After five years of drought in Syria, the heavy rain has rised water...

A fourth convoy of buses carrying people from the northern countryside of Homs province in western Syria arrived Sunday in Aleppo’s western countryside and Idlib province, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground in Idlib. The convoy of 33 buses carried 1,500 from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces and the Iraqi army have encircled a border town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, activists said Saturday. The joint operation between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Iraqi army followed coordination with the...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 civilians killed and twenty others wounded in a car bomb attack hit the northern city of Idlib, local activists said Saturday. The blast targeted a crowded district in the city which under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior rebel commander has escaped an assassination attempt in the southern province of Daraa, local activists said Saturday. The improvised explosive device targeted Wasim al-Zarqan, commander of Burkan Horan Brigades, in the town of Kafr Shams, according to...

A third convoy of buses carrying people from the northern countryside of Homs province in western Syria arrived Saturday in Aleppo’s western countryside, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground.   The convoy of dozens of buses carried 3,500 from northern Homs as...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians were killed late on Friday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against last Daesh strongholds in Hasaka provinces, activists said. The strikes east of al-Shaddadi town have killed 8 family members, mostly women and children.   ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS car bomb killed two people in Raqqa city when the Kurdish forces were removing rubble in the war-ravaged city in northeastern Syria, local media outlets said Saturday. Three more civilians were wounded due to the blast in Tel Abyad Street. Since the fall...

(Reuters) - Israel’s Defence Minister warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday to renounce the Iranian military presence in his country, saying the activities of Assad’s staunchest regional ally would only cause “damage and problems”. Speaking on a tour of the Golan...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 rebel fighters killed last Saturday in depot explosion in central Homs province, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The slain rebels were trying to detonate the weapons depot in Talbiseh town before deporting to Idlib province due to an evacuation deal with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Faylaq al-Rahman, once key Islamist group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has swindled the local council, taking $250,000 before being evacuated to northern Syria, documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed. Mustafa Saker, Head of the Local Council, demanded the group to...

Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles and does not think they are needed, the Izvestia daily cited a top Kremlin aide as saying Friday, in an apparent U-turn by Moscow. The comments, by Vladimir Kozhin, an aide to...

Iran Friday condemned Israel's air raids in Syria, saying they had been launched on "invented pretexts". "Iran firmly condemns the attacks by the Zionist regime on Syrian territory," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, cited by semi-official news agency ISNA. "The...

Syrian rebels left an enclave in south Damascus Thursday, state media said, the last in a string of rebel towns that have surrendered around the capital in recent weeks. A pocket near Homs city remains the only besieged enclave in rebel hands across the country, though insurgent...

Bahrain's foreign minister, Sheikh Khalid al-Khalifa, on Thursday backed Israel's right to "defend itself" after the Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian military targets in Syria overnight. "As long as Iran has breached the status quo in the region and invaded countries...