As Islamists continue to lose ground, the US administration reportedly fears that northern territories, where its troops have been training rebel forces, will fall to the Syrian regime. The United States plans to keep a military presence in Kurdish-dominated northern Syria after...

Syrian opposition will form a 50-member delegation to participate in U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva, the main Syrian opposition meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh told a news conference late on Thursday. “There will be further meetings tomorrow to decide the members of the delegation...

The size of Russia's military force in Syria is likely to be significantly reduced and a drawdown could start before the end of the year, the chief of the Russian military general staff said on Thursday. Russia's military support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, notably through air...

Syria's main opposition stuck by its demand Thursday that President Bashar Assad play no role in an interim period under any U.N.-sponsored peace deal, despite speculation it could soften its stance because of Assad's battlefield strength. "The participants stressed that this [the...

RIYADH: Syria's fragmented opposition doubled down on attempts to unify their ranks on Thursday, the second day of a Saudi-sponsored meeting ahead of next week's U.N.-brokered peace talks. Around 140 opposition figures are gathered in Riyadh in a bid to form a unified delegation to meet...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias have taken control of al-Quriya town, one of last ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria, local sources said Thursday. Three women and a child girl were killed in the aerial bombing on the town east of al-Mayadeen city. ISIS fighters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Russian jets have have intensified bombing on Eastern Ghouta suburbs in a major campaign killed more than 90 people and deepened the suffering of 400,000 blockaded people, local activists said on Thursday. The bombardment left 11 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish YPG militia arrested two commanders operating in the Front of Raqqa Revolutionaries in Raqqa province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The powerful YPG that led the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces had sidelined 'Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa'...

Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days, the UN World Food Programme said in a report on Wednesday. Since September, approximately 174,500 people in the...

Vladimir Putin called Wednesday for "concessions and compromise" from all parties in Syria's six-year conflict as he kicked off a key summit with the leaders of Turkey and Iran aimed at reviving stuttering peace negotiations. The summit with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish...

Russia’s Vladimir Putin won the backing of Turkey and Iran on Wednesday to host a Syrian peace congress, taking the central role in a major diplomatic push to finally end a civil war all but won by Moscow’s ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian opposition groups, meeting in Saudi...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkis authorites opened a new branch of the Turkish Post Office (PTT) in al-Bab city, east of Aleppo, such a step marks more Turkish influence in opposition-held areas. According to Turkish media, PTT branch - the second branch in Syria - began to...

A Syrian opposition meeting began in Riyadh on Wednesday in a bid to unify the group’s position ahead of peace talks backed by the United Nations to end the country’s six-year civil war. Saudi Arabia backs the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) group whose leader, former Syrian prime...

Children face severe malnutrition, while the Syrian government continues to bomb the enclave in defiance of a July 'de-escalation' agreement The rebel-held enclave of East Ghouta in Syria is facing a critical humanitarian crisis, the UN and local activists say, as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 militants from the paramilitary National Defense Units have arrived in Deir Ezzor province as fighting with the Islamic State still underway in the eastern countryside, local media unit said Tuesday. The reinforcement comes as regime forces seek to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime seeks to seal a reconciliation deal in Eastern Qalamoun region, such a move aims to secure the capital , local activists said. The defeat of ISIS in eastern Syria and the shift in the Saudi Arabia stance towards Bashar al-Assad's future role were a...

Russia said on Tuesday that the resignation of “radically minded” Syrian opposition figures such as Riyad Hijab would help unite the disparate opponents of President Bashar al-Assad around a more “realistic” platform. Hijab, a former Syrian prime minister, stepped down on Monday as head...

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a political solution to Syria’s conflict, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Russia is actively trying to build an international consensus around a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two infants on Monday have lost their lives due to a rainstorm hitting the opposition-held Idlib province amid lack of basic needs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. Wael Tuaima, 25-day-old, and Yahya al-Hassoun 8-day-old, have lost their lives died as a result of the severe...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Coordinator of Syrian opposition's Higher Negotiation Committee has resigned on Monday, such a move comes two days before Riyadh conference.  Riyad    Hijab, the head of Saudi-backed opposition group that also known as Riyadh platform, has...