(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took three towns from the Islamic State at the eastern bank of Euphrates River, local activists said on Sunday. The Kurdish-led forces backed by the International coalition airstrikes seized control of the towns of Graneej, Abu Hamam...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists said drones directed by rebels have targeted Hmeimim air base on Saturday, almost a week since similar attack left 7 Russian warplanes damaged in the coastal base.  The Russian forces shot down two drones as heavy gunfire heard from the key...

More than 2,000 Afghans deployed by Iran have been killed fighting in Syria on the side of President Bashar Assad's regime, an official in the volunteer force told Iranian media. The Fatemiyoun Brigade of Afghan "volunteer" recruits has been fighting in Syria for five years, said Zohair...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in fresh airstrikes on besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists and rescuing group said on Saturday. The volunteer first-responders Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, reported 12...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Senior commander in Jaish al-Isalm and former chief negotiator in Geneva talks has accused  an alliance spearheaded by the former al-Qaeda offshoot of collusion with the regime forces who made rapid gains in the province of Hama and Idlib over the last two weeks....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 Hezbollah militants killed in December, media outlets loyal to the Lebanese Shiite militia said. Rebel factions and activists assure that death toll of Hezbollah is more than ten amid media blackout in Lebanon over the involvement in Syria which has been...

The United States has frozen $125 million in funding for a U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees, Axios news site reported on Friday, but a State Department official said no decision had been made on the payment. Days after President Donald Trump threatened to withhold...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Qalamoun Shield, a pro-regime militia, has become a key unit in the major offensive on besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, local activists said. The group that formed from local fighters has been suffering heavy looses, activist Ahmed Yabroudi told Zaman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As regime forces backed by Russia's air force stepping up bombing on Idlib, activists have accused Hayat Tahrir al-Sham of hindering the de-escalation zone agreement where Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed last September to deploy Turkish forces in the northern province to protect...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Friday Prayers have been suspended in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs as  regime forces and allied militias step up aerial and ground bombing on the last rebel stronghold around the capital, pushing to reach troops trapped in Harasta town. State television...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad put an end to the authority of the head of the security and military committee and the head of the military security branch in Hasaka province, Brigadier General Ali Thiab.  Al-Assad announced that Thiab’s duties were over in the province considered...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists surfaced on social media footage showing huge fire in Mount Qasioun, said it caused due to explosions in the main artillery base used in offensive against the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The video carried on by SMART news agency and shared on...

Syrian regime forces Thursday battled to reach troops trapped in rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta, as a monitor said at least 28 civilians were killed in Russian and government bombardments. State television said "army units had launched an assault to break the siege" of the Armoured...

Female French extremists arrested in Kurdish-held parts of Syria should face justice there so long as they can be guaranteed a fair trial, the French government said Thursday. Debate has been swirling in France over the fate of women who went to Syria to marry Islamist fighters and now...

At least 23 civilians have been killed in aerial bombardment carried out by Syrian government forces in rebel-held parts of the Eastern Ghouta district, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Both the monitor and the Syrian Civil Defence, a group of volunteer first...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, an ISIS branch in southern Syria, has launched a surprise attack on rebel bastions in the western countryside of Daraa city, local activists said on Thursday. Rebels said they have thwarted the attack on the villages of Hait and Sheikh...

At least seven Russian planes were destroyed by rebel shelling at the Hmeymim air base in Syria on Dec. 31, Russian daily Kommersant reported late on Wednesday, citing two sources. In the single biggest loss of military hardware for Russia since it launched air strike in Syria in autumn...

Thousands of Syrian families have been fleeing towards northern parts of the Idlib province amid ongoing attacks by the Russia-backed Assad regime and the Daesh terrorist group. The attacks have reportedly occurred in the area between the northern and eastern countryside of Syria’s Hama...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Representative of the Syrian Turkmen Council in the opposition's National Coalition said his bloc will boycott the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Russia’s Sochi at the end of January, in contrary to previous report published by Zaman al-Wasl. Mohamed al-Shemali...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Shiite militants, including 3 Hezbollah members, were killed in a Daesh (ISIS) ambush in central Homs province, field sources said on Wednesday. Two more militants from al-Ridha Brigade were also killed in the ambush which took place in near the ancient city of...