PARIS (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Paris on Jan. 5 to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with the conflict in Syria high on the agenda, a source in the French president’s office said on Saturday. Among the regional crises the two leaders plan to...

Some of the anti-regime fighters who had evacuated from Western Ghouta under a deal with the Assad regime began arriving in Idlib and Daraa provinces, according to local sources. The first group of evacuees comprising 108 group members, including 21 women and 29 children were brought to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 regime troops and allied militants were killed and 36 more wounded by rebels in the eastern countryside of Hama province, medics and activists said on Saturday. The regime forces, backed by Russian air force and Iranian-backed militias, have stepped up its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces made new gains against the Islamic State at the eastern bank of Euphrates River, taking eight villages, local activists said on Saturday. The Kurdish-led forces backed by the International coalition airstrikes on Saturday reached the...

The world's biggest journalists' organization says that at least 81 reporters have been killed on the job this year and that violence and harassment against media staff have skyrocketed. In its annual "Kill Report," seen by The Associated Press, the International Federation of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians killed and dozen more wounded in regime air strikes on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, Civil Defense rescuing group said on Saturday. The regime air force conducted more than 30 raids since early morning, pounding most of the...

Dozens of Syrian rebels and their families have departed aboard buses from an area where they have been besieged by government forces near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The move is part of a deal to clear yet another district from insurgents. The regime-controlled Syrian Central...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S. army carried out a raid on an ISIS pocket in northeastern Hasaka province late on Friday, killing 3 civilians, local activists said. The U.S. forces made an airdrop to arrest a commander in Daesh lives in the village of Tel Zahab southeast of Hasaka city....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces, backed by Russian air force and Iranian-backed militias, have stepped up its offensive on Idlib and Hama provinces, pushing to take major rebel stronghold in Syria. The Assad troops are pushing north from a corner of the adjacent province of Hama,...

 A U.S.-led coalition carried out more than 14,100 military strikes against the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq since the alliance was established in mid-2014, according to a coalition official. “From September 2014 to December 2017, the alliance carried out 14,104 strikes on Daesh...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians killed and dozen more wounded in regime’s artillery shelling on the northwestern province of Hama, local reporter said on Friday. Syria’s air force and army, supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, have stepped up an offensive in Hama...

A Syrian cameraman working for pro-regime TV network Sama was killed Friday while covering clashes on the edge of the northwestern province of Idlib, state news agency SANA reported. "The terrorists targeted a press team from the Sama satellite channel near the village of Umm Haratain,"...

Imams across Syria are directing Muslims to pray for rain during this week's congregational Friday prayers. Syrian President Bashar Assad directed imams to pray for rain in this week's prayers through a circular distributed by the Religious Affairs Ministry, SANA state news agency...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 300 Islamist fighters will leave the last Sunni-rebel held bastion near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights due to a new evacuation deal reached with the regime army near the capital, local activists and monitoring group said. A convoy of 'green' buses has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The participation of Kurdish National Council in the Syrian Dialogue Congress in Sochi still not confirmed as the key opposition unit needs further consultation with partners, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Thursday.  A delegation from the council will visit Turkey...

Twelve people were killed on Thursday by airstrikes and artillery fire in northetn  Idlib province, local civil defense sources said. According to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense agency, Russian and Syrian regime warplanes repeatedly struck residential areas of the...

Pakistani diplomats in Syrian capital Damascus have contacted an elderly couple in a besieged suburb after their plight was highlighted by Anadolu Agency. Muhammad Fazal Akram and Sughra Bibi Akram are among the 400,000 civilians caught in Eastern Ghouta by a Syrian regime blockade....

A second batch of sick civilians, most of them children, left the besieged Eastern Ghouta, aid officials said on Thursday, but hundreds of critical patients remained trapped. Four evacuations took place on Tuesday and another group of 12 made it out late Wednesday, but a top...

Islamic State fighters are trying to make their way to parts of Syria controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, where they are apparently able to operate freely. “We are seeing the movement of limited numbers of ISIS militants westwards,” said British Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney, deputy...

The terrorist group PKK/PYD and the Bashar al-Assad regime have made common cause in Syria's northern city of Aleppo --a move whose signs can be seen on the streets. Based on information obtained by Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, PKK/PYD -- the Syrian offshoot of the PKK -- and the Assad...