Daesh (ISIS) is building up its defenses in a pocket of territory on the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, the U.S.-led coalition said Friday, in an anticipation of assaults by Syrian and Iraqi forces aiming to snuff out the extremists' last stronghold. Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to...

The U.N.'s top human rights official is calling the Syrian government's siege of the capital's suburbs "an outrage" and says food and medical supplies must be allowed to reach civilians inside. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said Friday in a statement that residents of the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of...

A new round of UN-led talks aimed at ending Syria's six-year war will take place in Geneva from November 28, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. The talks will follow up on a meeting next week in the Kazakh capital of Astana between Russia, Iran and Turkey that is also aimed at...

GENEVA (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday ahead of peace talks aiming at a political transition scheduled to resume next month. Tillerson said that the Trump administration...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces are responsible for a deadly sarin gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun that killed scores of people, a UN investigative panel said Thursday. The joint UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) panel said in a...

 (Reuters) - Iraqi forces launched an attack to drive Islamic State from the last territory it holds in Iraq on Thursday and the Syrian army and its allies said they planned to march on the jihadist’s last Syrian stronghold. The separate assaults across the Iraqi-Syrian frontier...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 regime forces killed in an ambush set up by Faylaq al-Rahman group in the embattled Eastern Ghouta Suburbs near Damascus, spokesman said on Thursday. Wael Alwan said Faylaq al-Rahman fighters have foiled regime attempt to advance into Ein Tarma and Jobar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people have been killed in regime artillery shelling on Douma city, northeastern the capital, local activists said on Thursday.  The ground bombardment extended to Saqba and Jobar neighborhood in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs. More than...

 Iraqi forces launched on Thursday an offensive to recapture the last patch of Iraqi territory still in the hands of Islamic State, on the border area with Syria, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “Daesh members have to choose between death and surrender,” he said in a statement...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 90,000 Syrian militants have been operating in Iran-backed Shiite militias in Syria, according to a leaked document issued by the Syrian Defense Ministry early 2017. The document that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl includes list of the Iranian militias fighting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Islamist judges wounded in explosive device attack in southern Daraa province, field activists said on Wednesday. The attack that targeted the Justice Court in Daraa comes as clashes renew between an ISIS affiliated group and southern rebels. On Tuesday, a...

Former Palestinian security head  Mohammed Dahlan  is playing a lead role in Syrian negotiations, according to Arab-language media. The former Fatah official has reportedly offered Syrian opposition groups two options for the future of the country, both of which would see President...

As U.S.-allied fighters hurtle down the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, a showdown could ensue between the U.S. and Russia, whose allies are racing to take over the same strategic oil-rich territory from the Islamic State group. While the two sides will likely avoid a direct...

Russia on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution allowing the extension of the mission that investigates the use of chemical weapons in Syria. This marks the ninth time that Moscow has vetoed against a draft resolution on Syria presented before the UN Security Council....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a base belongs to moderate rebels in southern Daraa province, leaving one fighter dead and ten more wounded, local activists said Tuesday. The attack targeted ‘Mu'taz Bellah’ Brigade in Mzairib town in the western...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the country's military operation in northwest Syria's Idlib province was largely completed but the neighboring region of Afrin, controlled by a Kurdish militia, remained an issue. Turkey's army began setting up observation posts in Idlib...

The U.S.-led coalition Tuesday denied striking Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria after Damascus accused its jets of killing more than a dozen people. Syrian state television had said the U.S.-led coalition hit the government-held Qusour district, killing 14 civilians and wounding 32, on...

f(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Happiness voluntary team in coordiantion with the Civil Defense Directorate in opposition-held areas in central Homs province has organized the first children's Olympic Games The event that entitled ‘Birds of Peace for Sports and Culture’ was held between 13-22...

At least 10 members of a small militant faction linked to Daesh (ISIS) were killed Monday by suspected Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit the town of Sahm al-Jolan in the west of Daraa...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 ISIS militants killed on Monday when unknown warplanes hit their stronghold in Yarmouk Basin in southern Daraa province as fighting is underway between the Islamic State affiliate and moderate rebels, local activists said. The strikes on Sahm town in the...