To keep civilians safe, the Turkish army has been busy destroying mines and roadside bombs planted by YPG/PKK terrorists in the town of Afrin, Syria after its liberation last Sunday. Over the last three days, 46 explosives were safely detonated, according to Anadolu Agency...

Some 1,500 insurgents and 6,000 of their family members will start leaving the town of Harasta in Syria's eastern Ghouta Thursday under an evacuation deal, a military media unit run by the government's ally Hezbollah said. It added that they would be transported to rebel-held Idlib...

A lightning assault by Daesh (ISIS) that put the militants in control of a southern part of the Syrian capital killed 62 regime fighters, a monitor said Wednesday in a new toll. Daesh launched the surprise attack on Monday night to seize the Qadam neighborhood of Damascus. The...

Russian airstrikes on the village of Kafr Batikh in northwestern Idlib province killed 22 people on Wednesday including 19 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday. Some 15 of those killed in the strike, in the eastern part of Idlib province, were from one...

A Russian-brokered deal has been reached to evacuate a Syrian rebel group from a town in Eastern Ghouta to opposition-held northwestern Syria in the first such deal in the last remaining rebel bastion near the capital, two opposition sources said on Wednesday. Fighters from the Ahrar...

Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed a major threat to Israel and the region and was a "message" to others. The first public acknowledgement by Israel that its F-16 and F-15 warplanes...

Rockets fired on a market in a regime-controlled neighborhood of Damascus Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting the capital. The government blamed rebels in the eastern suburbs...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten displaced people have been killed Tuesday when Russia's warplanes pounded their camp in northern Idlib province, a Civil Defense source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Russian used high-explosive missiles in the deadly strike on the camp in Hass village in the...

Humanitarian aid Tuesday reached desperate families displaced to the northern Syrian town of Tal Rifaat by a nearby Turkish offensive, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Ankara's two-month assault on Kurdish fighters in the region of Afrin, further west, has forced tens...

Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) on Tuesday delivered more humanitarian aid in northwestern Syria as part of Operation Olive Branch. In a statement, the foundation said food, childcare packages and hygiene kits have been delivered to the families in Afrin's town center,...

Opposition in Syria’s Afrin region will establish a local parliament with 30 representatives from Kurdish, Alevi, Arab and Ezidi communities, according to a representative of the opposition Tuesday. Hasan Sindi from the opposition in Afrin is coordinating a “liberation congress” for the...

The United Nations called on Tuesday for full access to civilians inside and outside of Syria's eastern Ghouta to meet their urgent needs, after some 50,000 have fled in recent days. Another 104,000 are estimated to have been uprooted by fighting around the northern town of Afrin, where 10,000...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime forces have arrested a prominent commander of one of its pro-militias, following clashes with Tiger elite forces, sources said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Afifa along with 12 members of his militia were arrested after clashes with forces subordinated to Suhail...

A monitor said Tuesday three dozen pro-regime fighters were killed in a southern district of the capital as Daesh (ISIS) militants took control of it in a surprise nighttime attack. There was no immediate comment from the regime on the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

An air strike on a school in Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 17 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in a dwindling rebel-held pocket of Ghouta that has...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition has made an airdrop in the northeastern province of Hasaka, tracking suspected ISIS militants in border village with Iraq, residents told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The U.S. helicopters made the airdrop in Tel Hamis, where U.S. troops raided two...

A British woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the Syrian region of Afrin was killed in the Turkish-led offensive on the area, a spokeswoman for the forces said Monday. Anna Campbell was killed last week in the Afrin enclave, Nisrin Abdallah said, a spokeswoman for the Kurdish...

Turkey's military operations in Syria will continue further east until several towns stretching hundreds of kilometers towards the Iraqi border have been cleared of militants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Ankara a day after Turkish forces and their rebel...

At least 20 civilians have died in a resumption of Syrian regime bombing on Douma, the largest town in shrinking rebel-controlled pockets of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said Monday. Thirteen were killed late Sunday in air strikes and artillery fire on the battered town, and another seven...

Turkish forces will withdraw from the Syrian border region of Afrin, leaving it to its "real owners", once it has been cleared of "terrorists", Turkey said on Monday. Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies swept into the regional capital, also called Afrin, on Sunday, raising their flags in...