The chairman of Swiss-French cement maker LafargeHolcim (LHN.S) said the company had made unacceptable errors in Syria and that it was cooperating with French investigators, according to an interview published in the French newspaper Le Figaro on Sunday. In April, LafargeHolcim’s chief...

 (Zaman Al Wasl) Israel has waged two missile attacks on Syrian military bases on Monday, according to the State TV and local activists.  The Syrian regime said the Israeli missiles had targeted Jamraya town, about 5 km (3 miles) northwest of the capital. ...

Mezza military airport has returned to service after mending the 2.5 km long runway and securing the key Air Force base in Damascus from opposition shelling. Bashar alAssad's plane took off from Mezza airport last November to Sochi where the Syrian dictator made a thank-you visit for...

(Eqtsad)- Local initiates and civil society  associations in Raqqa are working on removing earth mounds, trenches and the effects of war from the streets of the western towns and villages of Raqqa, while agricultural land is still waiting for similar projects for owners to...

Jordan's state security court has convicted five Syrians of helping Daesh (ISIS) militants carry out a 2016 car bomb attack that led to the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border. The court on Monday imposed the death penalty on one defendant and sentenced three to life in prison. A...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nasr al-Hariri, head of the opposition's negotiation committee was a subject for a US-based spy company over a request of an Arab state tracking  a period when al-Hariri was the Secretary-General of the Coalition.  Flashpoint Partner has provided...

Jets believed to be Syrian and Russian struck heavily crowded residential areas in a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens in the third week of a stepped-up assault, residents, aid workers and a war monitor said on Monday. Civil defense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Sunday have taken the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province after fierce battles with ISIS, the SDF’s media centre said. The YPG-led forces said it will set up local councils in the liberated areas saying the newly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces and Russia step up aerial and ground bombing on the besieged suburbs near Damascus, opposition news feeds said on Sunday. The strikes targeted the towns of Hammouriya and Harasta, women and children...

Talal Silo tells details of US arming terror groups in region and how the terrorist PKK/PYD-dominated SDF was formed ANKARA A former spokesperson and defector from the Syrian SDF, a group dominated by the terrorist PKK/PYD, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Friday. Talal Silo, a former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian human rights watchdog says 996 civilians were killed in November by the Syrian regime, Kurdish-led forces, ISIS, Russia and the US-led coalition. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said  November's death toll recorded a 20% increase in the toll of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the opposition delegation in Geneva agreed with the U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura to abandon the transitional period discussion in the eighth round of Syria's peace talks in contrary to media statements....

The U.S. military is shifting its stance in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday, as the program to arm the Kurdish opposition comes to a close and is replaced by increased support to local police and security forces. Mattis said the Pentagon is “changing the composition of...

 Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. ”The Israeli enemy launched...several surface-to-surface missiles towards a military position,“ it said, adding...

A former spokesperson and defector from the Syrian SDF, a group dominated by the terrorist PKK/PYD, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Friday. Talal Sillo, a former high-ranking commander and spokesperson of the U.S.-backed force who defected from the terrorist group last month, is currently in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took two villages from Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the SDF’s media centre said on Friday. The Kurdish-led alliance has advanced in al-Sheitat region in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,...

Syria’s government delegation quit U.N.-led peace talks in Geneva on Friday and said it would not return next week unless the opposition withdrew a statement demanding President Bashar al-Assad play no role in any interim post-war government. “For us (this) round is over, as a...

Turkey sent 180 commandos to the Syrian city of Al-Bab on Thursday, the military said. The troops from the gendarmerie's “Wolves” battalion, based in the Black Sea province of Tokat, held a leaving ceremony before heading for Syria. Turkish-backed Syrian fighters took Al-Bab, 40...

The Syrian regime army and a Syrian state television team Friday entered the eastern Lebanese town of Tfail, one day after around 110 Lebanese and Syrian families returned to the town, a security source said.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura pushed on Thursday both the regime and opposition delegations to enter into the core subject of negotiations, and handed them a 12-item paper including his concept for the future of Syria. A copy of the envoy’s paper, which was received by...