Turkey said Sunday the northern Syrian town of Tal Rifaat would be the next target of its cross-border campaign after the capture of Afrin from Syrian Kurdish militia. "God willing, we will ensure this operation achieves its goal after taking control of Tal Rifaat in a short period of...

Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians were bussed out of a second pocket of the besieged eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus Sunday after rebels agreed to leave several towns and villages after years of siege and weeks of heavy bombardment. Close to 900 people were evacuated from the...

Turkey will soon be with the people who are seeking its support along the Syrian border, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Speaking at the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s ordinary provincial congress in Black Sea province of Samsun, Erdogan said: “We will not...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Saturday has made a swap deal with Daesh to retrieve bodies of troops killed in southern Damascus suburb last Monday.   Unknown number of female detainees was released instead by the regime. Daesh launched a surprise attack on Monday night...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- As more than 105, 000 people have been evacuated from Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists say the evacuees are suffering harsh humanitarian conditions in the mass detention camps. Thousands of people were transferred to Adra area northeast of the capital where the...

Syrian rebels began evacuating a second part of Eastern Ghouta Saturday, regime-run media said, in the latest such deal this week for the former opposition bastion. "Several buses carrying 500 fighters and their families have reached the Arbin crossing, in preparation for their...

Russia's Defence Ministry said more than 105,000 people have left Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave, including another 700 on Saturday since government forces began an assault to retake it a month ago, RIA news agency reported, citing the military. RIA referred to evacuations taking place...

 After the UN gave Russia coordinates of hospitals in East Ghouta, near Syria’s capital Damascus, Russian forces have reportedly attacked one of the facilities. Jan Egeland, the head of the UN’s humanitarian operations for Syria, tweeted on Thursday that the coordinates had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A newly-taken photo near Eastern Ghouta suburbs has recalled days of feudalism and enslavement as regime officials and pro-Assad's warlords hurry to distribute sandwiches and water on the evacuees from the stricken district. Syrian activists, including pro-regime...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people have been killed and 25 more wounded in suspected car bomb blast in northern Idlib city, Civil Defense rescuing groups and local media unit said Saturday. The exposition took place in a crowded street in the city center, according to Idlib Media...

Days after Turkish forces captured Afrin, hundreds of people gathered at a cinema in Istanbul this week for the premiere of a film about commandos battling militants in the Syrian town. “Maroon Berets 2: Afrin” follows a Turkish commando unit trying to retrieve a warhead from militants in...

 Syrian rebels agreed to surrender a second besieged enclave in eastern Ghouta Friday, state television reported, as their comrades in another insurgent pocket in the area continued their withdrawal after a month-long assault by the army. Capturing eastern Ghouta, near the capital...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 37 people burned to death when Russia's warplanes pounded their underground shelter in Arbin town with Napalm and incendiary bombs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.  "Russian air strikes and incendiary weapons killed the...

Faylaq al-Rahman, key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has agreed ceasefire from midnight to negotiate exit from stricken enclave    

A prominent Syrian Kurdish leader Thursday criticized Russia for giving a "green light" to Turkey to carry out an offensive in Syria's Afrin region, saying it wouldn't have happened without Moscow's approval. Turkish troops and allied Syrian forces seized control of the northwestern...

Syrian rebels and their families left Eastern Ghouta Thursday under a Russian-brokered evacuation deal that is the first for the shrinking opposition enclave outside Damascus. They were bussed out in direction of the northwestern province of Idlib, after hours of waiting in a buffer...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian airstrikes on a local market in the northwestern province of Idlib have killed at least 42 civilians, Civil Defense agency and local activists said. The deadly strikes hit the town of Harem, which is controlled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a group led by Syria's...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday clearing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the Syrian region of Afrin after the capture of Afrin city at the weekend, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. "We have three martyrs today. They were martyred while clearing IEDs," Yildirim...

Syrian rebels freed 13 soldiers in return for the release of five rebels on Thursday, the first step of a deal over Harasta town in Eastern Ghouta, a Hezbollah War Media Center. Around 1,500 Ahrar al-Sham fighters and 6,000 family members will evacuate the town on Thursday, said the...

Large numbers of Syrian civilians were leaving the rebel-held eastern Ghouta town of Douma early on Thursday, a war monitor said, and a Russian video feed showed groups bearing children and luggage crossing into government territory. Some 1,500 people left early on Thursday and 2,000 late...