British members of parliament from the opposition Labor party visited northern Syria Wednesday to express solidarity with the region's embattled Kurdish minority. Their visit came at a time when Kurdish-controlled areas faced the threat of military operations by neighboring Turkey and...

A police force drawn up by Syria’s interim government is helping restore security in the liberated city of Afrin. Police Commander Mohamed al-Bushi told Anadolu Agency on Monday that police would eventually assume responsibility for security in Afrin once the Turkish military and the...

Syrian rebel factions in the region of Eastern Qalamoun, an opposition-held pocket north east of Damascus, announced their refusal to strike an evacuation deal similar to that seen in Eastern Ghouta, that would cede territory back to the Assad regime, al-Araby al-Jadeed reported. The group...

President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday countries that want the U.S. to remain in Syria may have to pay for the continued military presence, singling out Saudi Arabia.  The Kingdom's officials have indicated they want the U.S. to stay, Trump said, adding he has told them they may...

The 14th convoy carrying civilians and opposition fighters from Syria’s besieged suburb of Eastern Ghouta arrived in the Al-Bab district of Aleppo on Tuesday. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents based in the area, the evacuees are ongoing from the towns of Arbin, Zamalka, Ain...

President Donald Trump said he wants U.S. troops to leave Syria soon and will make a decision “very quickly” on how much longer they will stay, as his administration’s policy on its seven-year civil war remains in limbo. “I want to get out, I want to bring the troops back home, I want...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven people killed and dozen more wounded in Russian airstrikes hit northern Idlib province, local media unit said Tuesday. The Russian raids targeted a marketplace in the town of Ariha, leaving two people dead. Five more people killed in the villages of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee of Al-Dumayr town in eastern Qalmoun has met with the regime’s counterpart on Monday as Damascus eyes on the eastern territory of the capital to be freed of rebel groups, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Al-Dumayr’s rebels who involved in the...

Russia's defense ministry said Tuesday that more than 40,000 civilians who had fled Syria's eastern Ghouta have returned, Interfax agency reported. The government offensive on Ghouta has been one of the deadliest of the war, killing more than 1,600 civilians, according to the Syrian...

About 130,000 people fled a Damascus suburb during a weeks-long Syrian regime offensive, the United Nations said Monday. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UN and its partners are working to alleviate the humanitarian crisis brought on by the offensive on Eastern Ghouta, but said...

Young icons of resistance during the plight suffered by civilians victim of regime attacks in Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta district have started a new life in Turkey.  Baby Karim, who inspired a campaign of support in Turkey after he lost one of his eyes as well as his mother in...

A rebel faction trapped by government forces outside the Syrian capital agreed to evacuate to northern Syria on Sunday as reports swirled of a larger agreement that would have the government retake full control of the Eastern Ghouta region after seven years of revolt. Fighters from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of Eastern Qalamoun may face the same fate of their fellows in Eastern Ghouta as regime threatens of ferocious offensive to uproot rebels who decline to accept its three choices. Laying down arms to the army, evacuating rebels and people who want to leave or...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces stepped up its artillery shelling on opposition-held towns in southern Daraa province, local activists said Sunday. The border region with Jordan has endured to heavy artillery bombardment as regime army mobilizes troops in the next-door province of...

The U.S. is taking measures against a possible counter-terror operation led by Turkey in Syria's northern Manbij district.  The U.S. has deployed military reinforcements to Manbij, west of Euphrates River, according to information Anadolu Agency received from trustworthy local...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Failaq al-Rahman fighters began Sunday to leave Douma, their last bastion in eastern Ghouta to head to northern Idlib province as negotiations with Jaish al-Islam still underway, regime media said. The move is the first such withdrawal of Failaq al-Rahman...

A group of Syrian rebel fighters began Sunday to leave their last bastion in eastern Ghouta to head to rebel-held Idlib in northwestern Syria, state media said. The move is the first such withdrawal of Failaq al-Rahman fighters from besieged Douma, where the dominant rebel group Jaish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 'violent explosion' has rocked an Iranian-military base early Sunday in Hama province, residents said amid claims of an Israeli airstrike. Local activists said the explosion in the southern countryside of Hama was due to an Israeli raid on the 47th Brigade, a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Eight displaced people from Eastern Ghouta sububs were killed Saturday when their bus collided with a vehicle on the interstate highway near the coastal city of Jableh, regime media said.  Three civilians (father, mother and their daughter) from the Latakia...

The 11th convoy carrying civilians and opposition fighters from Syria’s besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta arrived in the central-western Hama province on Saturday. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents based in the area, the evacuees were taken from the towns of Arbin, Zamalka,...