Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) units liberated a village in western Afrin of PYD/PKK terrorists following an operation launched in the Raju district on Tuesday morning. According to a Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene, the village of al-Qana in west Afrin...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is not a terrorist group, but a national organization that is defending its homeland, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Addressing lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Erdogan slammed the main opposition, Republican...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 civilians killed and dozen more  wounded in fresh Russian airstrikes a marketplace in northern Idlib province, Civil Defense rescuing group said. Tuesday's strikes hit the central market of the town of Ariha, leaving seven people killed as the...

The opening of Russia's showpiece congress aimed at bringing Syria's seven-year war to an end was delayed by at least two hours Tuesday, as Moscow struggled to bring together key players. Regime-backer Moscow has invited 1,600 delegates to the meeting in the Black Sea resort of...

The Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, supporting Western claims that government forces under President Bashar Assad were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six Islamist fighters and one civilian have been killed in car bomb attack in southern Daraa province, field sources said Monday. The blast targeted Hayat Tahrir al-Sham personnel in the town of al-Msaifra in the eastern countryside. A senior commander in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees live very hard humanitarian conditions in al-Rukban Camp at Jordanian border due to neglect and lack of support from international relief organizations especially in winter. Spokesman of al-Badiya Now Page Abdul Kareem Abdullah told Zaman al-Wasl, "the...

Prosecutors Monday launched an investigation into a Turkish medical association after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted angrily to a statement denouncing Ankara's military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia. Turkey launched a cross-border offensive dubbed "Olive...

MOSCOW/Donetsk, Ukraine (Reuters) - In the fall of 2015, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine were introduced to a moustachioed new commander who, like his predecessors, went by the codename Tuman - “fog” in Russian. Also like his predecessors, he appeared to be a Russian national. He...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four children lost their lives in RPG shell exploded in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, local activists said Monday. Graneej, the newly-freed town from ISIS, still not cleaned from the ISIS-planted landmine and explosive devices.  The U.S.-backed...

At least 12 civilians were killed and 16 others injured in two airstrikes in Idlib province in northern Syria on Monday, according to an official with the White Helmets civil-defense agency.  A Russian warplane struck a marketplace in Saraqib city in the province, White Helmets...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will head a new constitutional commission that will be set up at a peace conference in Russia this week, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing official documents. Russia is hosting a two-day Syrian...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night that Israel and Poland have agreed to hold talks seeking to resolve the uproar over proposed Polish legislation that would outlaw blaming Poland for any crimes committed during the Holocaust. Earlier, Israel's Foreign Ministry...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed on Sunday in Russian airstrikes hit the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense agency said. Eight civilians, including family members and pregnant woman, have been killed in the town of Saraqeb,...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army units (FSA) on Sunday celebrated the capture of strategic Mount Bursaya in northern Syria by unfurling flags of Turkey and the FSA. According to the Turkish General Staff, the strategic peak was captured by the Turkish military and FSA...

Turkey will clean its entire border with Syria of terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, in a sign that a nine-day-old Turkish offensive into northern Syria's Afrin region could be extended further. Speaking at a congress of his ruling AK Party in the northern...

Heavy fighting resumed in Syria's Eastern Ghouta Sunday after a short period of relative calm following reports that a cease-fire had been agreed there late Friday, a war monitor and pro-government media sources said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war...

The Syrian regime and a war monitor said Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Kurdish-held Afrin region of Syria had seriously damaged an ancient temple. Ain Dara is an iron age temple with remains of large carved basalt blocks and wall reliefs. Pictures circulating online, which...

A female Kurdish fighter has reportedly carried a suicide bomb attack on Turkish military forces in Syria, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The grenade attack is believed to have killed two Turkish soldiers and destroyed an army attack. The 20-year-old woman was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians killed on Sunday as regime forces stepped up aerial and ground bombing on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, local activists said. The bombardment of the rebel-held eastern enclave of Damascus continued since Saturday after  collapse of...