U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that he did not envision a "strategic alliance" with Russia in Syria as Washington looks to end Daesh (ISIS) and curb Iran. "I don't see strategic alliance - perhaps tactical symmetry for a convenient moment, but not a strategic...

Air strikes on a village held by Daesh (ISIS) in the eastern part of Deir al-Zor province killed at least 13 people including seven women on Tuesday, Syrian state media and a war monitoring group reported Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S. and Turkish military commanders have discussed the possibility of creating a "secure zone" along the border with Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday amid rising tensions over Turkish intervention in the area. "Clearly we continue to talk to the Turks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed forces took the town of Graneej from Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province on Wednesday, such a gain makes the al-Sheitat region under the full control of Kurdish-led militias, activists said. For over a month, the YPG-led Syrian Democratic...

The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has distributed 139 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syrians, the group said Wednesday. The aid was delivered to Syrians seeking shelter in camps near the Turkish border, the foundation’s media adviser, Selim Tosun, said in a news release....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Wednesday have allowed tens of displaced families to return home in the eastern town of al-Mayadeen near the Iraqi border after 3 months of ISIS defeat, local activists said. The regime fight with ISIS has pushed thousands of people to flee...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians killed in Russian airstrikes on northern Idlib province, local activists and rescuing group said on Wednesday. The Napalm attack hit the town of Sanqara in the western countryside of Idlib. Meanwhile, clashes continued between Hayat Tahrir...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday said Russia bore responsibility for recent chemical attacks by the Syrian government, which Moscow backs in the country's civil war. "Only yesterday more than 20 civilians, most of them children, were victims of an apparent chlorine gas...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army said dozen of Kurdish YPG militia were taken captive amid state of panic as the Turkish army stepped up its ground and aerial campaign on the border town of Afrin. Azad Sha’bo, a Kurdish commander in the FSA...

The Turkish army was Tuesday engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militia inside Syria as the United States voiced alarm Ankara's operation could endanger attempts to bring peace to the conflict-torn country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed at the funeral of the first Turkish...

Decrying the worsening situation in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the head of Syria’s opposition delegation said Monday that helping civilians must be prioritized. “The situation in Eastern Ghouta is causing serious concern, and the last three months were the worst ever for this...

Syria’s main opposition group said Monday it needed “full and clear information” from Russia before it would  agree to take part in peace talks to be held in Sochi next week. The comments came during a visit by the Syrian Negotiations Commission (SNC) to Moscow as Russia gets...

The White House Monday urged Turkey to exercise restraint after Turkish forces launched a military campaign in Syria's Afrin region, warning that the campaign risked exacerbating a humanitarian crisis and disrupting what had been a stable area. "We urge Turkey to exercise restraint in...

The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official to visit the war-struck city months after American-backed militia retook the area from Daesh (ISIS). Green was accompanied by the head of the U.S....

Russia said Monday it had invited Kurds to take part in an upcoming Syrian peace congress in Sochi, despite a Turkish offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria. Together with regime backer Iran and rebel supporter Turkey, Russia - a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad...

The United Nations is ready to help people who might flee from the Afrin enclave, where Turkish troops are on the offensive against Kurdish fighters, the top U.N. official in Syria said Monday. Ali al-Zatari told The Associated Press in his office in western Damascus that they are...

The PYD/PKK terror group has released all Daesh prisoners under the condition that they will fight against Turkish army and Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Syria's Afrin region, according to local sources Monday. The terrorist group struck a deal with Daesh terrorists for using them as a...

Rescue workers in a Syrian rebel-held enclave east of Damascus accused government forces of using chlorine gas during bombardment of the area on Monday, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 people had suffered suffocation.   The regime army and government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS branch in southern Syria has been mobilizing its militants to seize an Israeli-Syrian buffer zone since 1973 near the Occupied Golan Heights, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Jaish Khalid Ibn al-Walid seeks to capture the ‘Yellow Zone’ that includes 5 towns...

Turkish air raids killed 11 civilians Sunday in the northern Syrian region of Afrin, including eight members of the same family who had fled fighting elsewhere, the Observatory said. The reported strikes came on the second day of "Operation Olive Branch," as Turkish tanks and troops...