(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army has mobilized troops in the southern suburbs of Damascus, seeking to attack last ISIS pockets, local activists said Wednesday. The regime aims to clean out all suburbs of Damascus from rebels and militant groups by war or reconciliation deals. Such...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped all sides involved in Syria would avoid doing anything that could destabilize an already fragile situation in the Middle East and made clear it was strongly opposed to a possible U.S. strike on its ally. The United States and its allies are...

The World Health Organization said Wednesday around 500 people had been treated for "signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals" after a suspected poison gas attack in a Syrian rebel enclave just before it fell. U.S. President Donald Trump and Western allies are...

European airspace authorities are warning aircraft to be careful over the next days when flying close to Syria because of possible military action against President Bashar Assad's forces. The Eurocontrol airspace organization said that the European Aviation Safety Agency had sent a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian air force is hiding its fighter jets in the Russian Hmeimim air base in Latakia province as Trump's administration determined to launch disciplinary air strikes over deadly poison gas attack on Douma town, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Sources assured that...

The international chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday it was sending a fact-finding mission to the Syrian town where a suspected chemical gas attack took place over the weekend, following a request from the Syrian government and its Russian backers that appeared to be aimed at averting...

At least 783 civilians were killed in attacks across war-torn Syria last month, according to a Syrian human rights group on Tuesday.   A total of 198 children and 138 women were among the civilian fatalities in Syria in March, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday warned of worsening situation in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta where tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday at the UN in Geneva, UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic said: "We estimate that more than...

President Donald Trump will skip a summit in Latin America this week to oversee the U.S. response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria after he threatened military action, the White House confirmed Tuesday. Trump was scheduled to attend the April 13-14 Summit of the Americas in Lima,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey will return Syria's Afrin to its residents, criticizing recent remarks by Russian foreign minister. Sergey Lavrov on Monday urged Ankara to return Afrin to the Bashar al-Assad regime. "This is a wrong approach. We know...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have thwarted an attack by Daesh affiliate in the southern province of Daraa, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, an ISIS branch in southern Syria, has launched a surprise attack on the town of Hait in the western...

 Russia has been jamming U.S. drones in Syria, blocking GPS signals and causing them to malfunction, according to officials.  Four U.S. officials told NBC News that the Russians had been crippling American drones for the past few weeks, seriously affecting military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that Iran had removed its drones from the T-4 military air base to Palmyra air base two weeks after the Israeli airstrikes last February. An official in the Syrian Air Force told Zaman al-Wasl that Iran on February 25 had...

The death toll from a deadly explosion in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib has risen to 28, according to a local civil defense official on Tuesday.   Around 135 people have been injured in the blast that struck a residential building in the city on Monday, Muhammed Haj Youssef...

International condemnation grew over a suspected poison gas attack in a rebel-held town near Damascus said to have been carried out by the Syrian regime, while Syria and its main ally, Russia, blamed Israel for airstrikes on a Syrian air base Monday that reportedly killed 14 people, including...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Syrian regime forces are on alert amid fears of an imminent U.S. strike, resulted in an immediate deploying for its advanced air defenses around the capital and near the Republican Palace.   Most advanced air defenses were deployed in...

(AP) - Promising a decision within hours, President Donald Trump threatened a military strike against Syria and declared on Monday that Russia or any other nation found to share responsibility for Saturday's apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians will "pay a price." The White...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria is warning that recent grave events have escalated global tensions, drawing national, regional and international actors "into dangerous situations of potential or actual confrontation." Staffan de Mistura told an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting...

President Donald Trump said Monday that "major decisions" would be made on a Syria response in the next day or two, after warning that Damascus would have a "big price to pay" over an alleged chemical attack on a rebel-held town. Trump condemned what he called a "heinous attack on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad are preparing to attack buses carrying rebels and their families who left the stricken town of Douma over Russian deal, heading to Jarabulus city at the Turkish border, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Since the evacuation route is passing...