(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime Palestinian paramilitary group mourned three officers said they had been killed by former al-Qaeda group as the regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold south of the capital. The Militia of Fateh al-Intifada has engaged in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Reconciliation talks have been suspended between the Russian army and the negation committee in Northern Homs and southern Hama, sources said Sunday. The Russian military, which brokers the evacuation and ceasefire deal in Syria, has suspended the Sunday's meeting...

Air strikes pounded an insurgent-held area near Damascus Sunday, footage broadcast by state TV stations showed, as the Syrian regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold near the capital. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the al-Hajar al-Aswad district as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish-led Raqqa Local Council has transferred two mass graves containing 500 bodies of civilians and Islamic State jihadists out of the city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The move came as the local organizations and civil community work to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bread prices have been doubled in Hasaka days after the breadwinners stopped selling bread in the northeastern city, local reporter said Saturday. Local activists attributed the prices hike to the lack of flour, as the Syrian regime is the only supplier for flour in...

A team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in Douma, Syria on Saturday to collect samples as it tries to determine whether such weapons were used there on April 7, the agency said. In a statement, the OPCW said it would now...

About a month after liberating the region across Turkey’s border from Kurdish militias and ISIS, the Turkish military has opened an emergency services hospital in Afrin, northwestern Syria. The hospital, which can treat 400 patients a day, provides residents in the town of Jinderes with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces stepped up its ground and aerial attack on the southern neighborhoods of Damascus as clashes are still underway with Daesh and former al-Qaeda group, local reporter said Saturday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said five Palestinian people were killed in...

(Zambian Al Wasl)- Rebels started leaving eastern Qalamoun region outside the capital on Saturday, regime-run media said, after a new deal was reached between opposition fighters and the Russia-backed regime. The agreement for the eastern Qalamoun  is the latest in a string of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed on Friday in a rocket attack by the U.S.-backed forces on ISIS pockets in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said. The two family members were killed due to the bombing of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the town of al-Sousa in the...

Washington (AFP) - The United States is offering a reward of $1 million for information about Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria since 2012. The FBI announced the reward this week, without any explanation on the timing. "The timing of this reward is unrelated...

The Syrian regime has launched fresh military operations in opposition-held parts of the northern Homs province. According to information gathered by Anadolu Agency correspondents in Syria, regime forces have launched fresh assaults since Monday against rebel-held areas of northern...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said it had killed 20 Palestinian fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad in Yarmouk refugee camp as regime forces backed by heavy aerial campaign launched major offensive to uproot Daesh and former al-Qaeda group from southern neighborhoods of Damascus,...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday at a meeting in Moscow with United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura that U.S.-led air strikes in Syria had harmed the peace process, the RIA news agency reported. Shoigu said last weekend's strikes were carried out at the least...

A U.N.-marked vehicle was in the area close to the site of the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma on Friday under escort from Russian military police, a Reuters witness said. The arrival of the vehicle comes three days after a U.N. security team turned back while doing...

 Syrian state media says Daesh (ISIS) militants have agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus. The SANA news agency says militants will be given the option to stay and reconcile with the government or leave on buses to Daesh-held territory in the eastern Syrian desert....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels agreed late on Thursday to give up four more towns in the eastern Qalamoun region to the Syrian regime, in a string of handovers by rebels following the evacuation of Dumayr, the strategic town northeast of Damascus, spokesman said. Said Seif, spokesman for...

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Friday Russia did not know how the situation in Syria would evolve in terms of the country maintaining its territorial integrity, the Interfax news agency reported. "We don't know how the situation is going to develop on the question of...

Britain's U.N. ambassador said Thursday the Russians and Syrians must uphold the promises they made to let chemical weapons inspectors visit the site of a suspected poisonous gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma - and "it should happen expeditiously." Karen Pierce said in an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces began bombarding the Hajr al-Aswad neighborhood and Yarmouk Palestinian camp inside Damascus only hours after reports surfaced that Daesh (ISIS) militants would be given two days to leave, activists said Thursday. Local opposition activist Sami Dreid, in...