Veteran prosecutor Carla del Ponte signed off from the United Nations Syria investigation on Monday by criticizing the U.N. Security Council and telling Syria’s ambassador his government had used chemical weapons. The former Swiss attorney general, who went on to prosecute war...

Opposition activists say Syrian government troops battling Daesh (ISIS) have crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Deir al-Zor for the first time since they broke a siege on parts of the eastern city earlier this month. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

Washington and Moscow have held high-level talks aimed at shoring up military "deconfliction" zones in eastern Syria after Russia was accused of targeting US-backed forces battling the Islamic State group in an air strike, a top US general said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces...

(Newsweek)- Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday rejected allegations it had bombed U.S.-backed militias in Syria, saying its planes only targeted Islamic State (ISIS) militants and that it had warned the United States well in advance of its operational plans.  U.S.-backed militias...

Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday rejected allegations it had bombed U.S.-backed militias in Syria, saying its planes only targeted Islamic State militants and that it had warned the United States well in advance of its operational plans. U.S.-backed militias said they came under...

Syrian regime troops seized a suburb of the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, tightening the noose around Islamic State, a Syrian military source said. The army pushed into the city this month with the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, breaking an Islamic State...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes still underway between regime troops and the Islamic State east of Homs province, left 8 officers killed, local reporter said.   Backed by Russia's airstrikes, the regime forces seek to deter ISIS from gas-rich area, such a hope still not fulfilled as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The delegation of the Syrian resistance factions presented to Astana 6 conference several files related to the cooperation of Bashar al-Assad regime with ISIS through its security services and facilitating some of the operations carried out by the organization in the central...

The former al Qaeda branch in Syria has pledged to keep fighting government forces and their Russian and Iranian allies, and denounced ceasefire talks in Kazakhstan. Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed on Friday to deploy observers on the edge of a “de-escalation” zone in Syria’s Idlib...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia`s airstrikes on Saturday have killed 14 civilians in Deir Ezzor province as  regime army, Kurdish and Iraqi forces tighten noose on ISIS in eastern Syria, local activists said.    Ahmed Ramdan, from Furat Post, localmonitorng group based in Deir...

U.S.-backed militias said they came under attack on Saturday from Russian jets and Syrian government forces in Syria’s Deir al-Zor border province, a focus of an increasingly complex conflict. The strikes wounded six fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 29 regime troops from Tartus province have been killed in two weeks by the Islamic State in eastern Syria, pro-regime news feeds said. Since May, the regime forces have been battling ISIS at the gates of Deir Ezzor city and the Syrian Badia, making rapid...

The parliament of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region approved a plan on Friday to hold a referendum on independence on Sept. 25, ignoring opposition from Baghdad and the wider region as well as Western concerns that the vote could spark fresh conflict. Parliament reconvened in Erbil,...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, their commander said on Friday, but Russia said army units had already done so near the city of Deir al-Zor. An aide to President Bashar al-Assad meanwhile said...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime warplane failed to take off due to technical failure in Dumayr airport east of the capital, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl on Friday. Activist Omar Hamdan said the warplane had been crashed after hitting an army barrack  near the airport at...

Russia, Iran and Turkey will post observers on the edge of a de-escalation zone in northern Syria’s Idlib region largely controlled by Islamist militants, the three nations said on Friday. The move is part of a broader plan under which Moscow, Tehran and Ankara will set up four such...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 regime army soldiers wounded in Tayfour military airbase in the eastern countryside of Homs province due to a huge explosion struck weapons depots, pro-regime media outlets aid on Friday. The military airbase, 85 km (about 60 miles) east of Homs lies in the...

An American citizen fighting for Islamic State in Syria surrendered to U.S-backed fighters earlier this week and has been handed over to U.S. forces, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The American surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of mostly Arab and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State said at least 320 people have killed in a deadly aerial and ground bombing on Deir Ezzor by the Syrian regime, US-led coalition and Russia, Amaq news agency said on Thursday. The horrible death toll followed Russia's seven cruise missiles on Deir Ezzor,...

Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Babila and Beyt Sahm, southern suburbs of Damascus, have  demonstrated against forced displacement and demographic change under the Four-Town evacuation deal that includes Kafriya and al-Fu'a, Madaya and Zabadani". Hundreds of people of from...