More than 1,100 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside the Syrian capital, the U.N.’s children’s fund UNICEF said Monday. Based on surveys done in recent months, the body said 1,114 children were suffering from various forms...

Israel accused Hezbollah on Monday of orchestrating shelling across the Golan Heights frontier in order to stoke Israeli-Syrian fighting, and called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his big-power ally Russia to curb the Lebanese guerrillas. Twice last week, mortar rounds or...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 children from the same family were killed when the Russian warplanes struck ISIS-held al-Aridi neighborhood in eastern Deir Ezzor city, local activists said on Monday. The strikes have targeted the remaining four districts under ISIS control including...

Fighters with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia have credited Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan with their victory over Daesh (ISIS) in Raqqa, in apparent response to U.S. criticism of their praise of a man jailed in Turkey for treason. In a video praising Ocalan's "ideological power", the...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday Daesh (ISIS) killed at least 128 people in the Syrian town of al-Qaryatayn in central Homs over a three-week period before the Syrian regime army recaptured it on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from Syrian government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 rebel fighters were injured in an ISIS poison gas attack on their bases near Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus, local reporter said. The nature of the substance has not yet been confirmed as dozens of suffocation cases reported. Clashes erupted...

(The Daily Mail)- Tragic photos of a  Syrian  infant suffering from severe malnutrition have shown the grave consequences of the battle against  ISIS  that has forced thousands from their homes. The child was treated by a nurse at a clinic in the rebel-controlled...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Sunday of wiping the city of Raqqa “off the face of the earth” with carpet bombing in the same way the United States and Britain had bombed Germany’s Dresden in 1945. The Russian Defence Ministry, which has itself...

U.S.-backed militias said they captured a major oil field in Deir al-Zor province on Sunday, pressing their offensive against Islamic State fighters in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they gained control of al-Omar oil field, one of Syria’s largest, on the eastern...

Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli towns on Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the civil war that has repeatedly spilled over the border. The projectiles crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

 U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday hailed the defeat of Islamic State fighters in their self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa as “a critical breakthrough” in a worldwide campaign against the militants. On Friday, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally announced...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed an upcoming meeting of the Astana process on the Syrian conflict in the Kazakh capital in late October, the Kremlin said on Saturday. During their phone conversation, Putin and Erdogan talked about joint efforts...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people were arrested in the city of al-Tal, northeast the capital as regime froces waged new arrest campaign to hunt youth escaping conscription, local activists said Saturday. Murad Mardini, a communication officer in the Voice of the Capital network, said the...

The Syrian regime army and allied forces recaptured a town from Daesh (ISIS) on Saturday in central Homs province, where the extremists have lost vast territory in recent months, state media said. Syrian troops regained control of al-Qarytayn "after eliminating terrorist Daesh groups that had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian militia has seized two villages from ISIS in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, such a gain comes a day after declaring victory in Raqqa, once ISIS de-facto capital, local media unit said. The Syrian Democratic Forces took villages of Sfiera and Shaqra, ISIS...

The Israeli army attacked Syrian government artillery on Saturday after fire across the armistice line hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and warned it would intensify such retaliation in the future. The Syrian government controls only party of the territory on the other side of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS major offensive on regime forces in eastern Homs have killed at least 20 regime troops near al-Qaryatayn, the desert town that fell to Daesh favor three weeks ago, activists said on Friday. The fierce clashes took place near the village of Hamima in the eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday have thwarted Daesh attack on their bastions near Yarmouk camp in southern Damascus, local reporter said. The moderate factions based in Yalda suburb have pounded the Islamic State stronghold in Yarmouk refugees camp with mortar rounds and heavy...

The defeat of the Islamic State group in its  Syrian  bastion of Raqqa was a "historic" achievement, the US-backed force that led the months-long battle said at an official ceremony in the city on Friday. "We dedicate this historic victory to all humanity," said Talal Sello,...

Raqqa will be part of a decentralized federal Syria now the city has been freed from Islamic State, the U.S.-backed militias that captured it said on Friday, tying its future to Kurdish-led plans to set up autonomous regions in the north. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces...