An Islamic State evacuation convoy trying to reach IS territory in east Syria has split in two, with some buses remaining in the open desert after others turned back into government-held areas, a U.S.-led coalition fighting the group said on Sunday. The Syrian government and Lebanon’s...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes between ISIS and Kurdish-led forces still underway in the last neighborhood of Raqqa's Old City as the U.S.-led airstrikes keep pounding the trapped civilians, local monitoring group said on Sunday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently...
(Zaman Al Wasl) Al-Nujba'a militia, which is fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad, said it held Eid prayers at its headquarters, the Second Brigade Camp in Damascus. The militia led by Akram al-Kaabi, in his capacity as the Secretary-General, said the prayer was led by “Mr Abbas...
(Zaman Al Wasl) This year's Eid al-Adha holiday is a heavy burden for the displaced people in the eastern region of Qalamoun in Damascus’ countryside. The holiday brings with it bitter memories which the war is trying to erase. However, the warm welcome of the people in the region gave the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS suicide bombing attacks killed at least 23 Syrian and Russian troops east of Hama province, pushing back the offensive of regime and its allies, residents told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. The attack took place in the ISIS-held Auqairabattown, a...
More than a dozen Syrian rebel factions have thrown their weight behind a proposed plan to create a single "national army" to unify the fractured opposition movement. The idea was proposed earlier this week by the opposition's interim government in exile and by the Syrian Islamic...
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Saturday accused US-led forces of stranding a convoy of Islamic State fighters and civilians headed for Syria's Deir Ezzor province under an evacuation deal. The convoy carrying hundreds of IS fighters as well as civilians was meant to travel from...
The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants said on Friday it had confirmed another 61 likely civilian deaths caused by its strikes in Iraq and Syria, raising to 685 the number of civilians it has acknowledged killing since the conflict began. The coalition said in a...
(Eqtsad)- The General Medical Board in the south of the capital Damascus warned that the only central hospital in the region Shahid al-Mihrab Hospital has no capacity to continue work in the absence of funds from medical organizations supporting the board which provide free medical services...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of northern Homs countryside have celebrated the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha without fears of being bombed for the first time in 6 years. The first time they do Eid Prayers in public not under the ground or in shelter, Abu Karmo from Talbiseh town told...
Around 120,000 displaced people - mostly Rohingya Muslims - in camps in Myanmar’s Rakhine state are not receiving food supplies or healthcare after the U.N. and aid groups suspended operations following government accusations of supporting insurgents. Nearly 400 people have died in...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city killed ta least 12 civilians, including children, on Thursday, local activists said as the Kurdish-led forces press more gains against the Islamic State. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces advanced in al-Dereiya and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, key rebel group fighting regime forces and ISIS in Syrian Badia, said it has freed army pilot was taken captive two weeks after shooting down his jet near Jordan's border. Thirty more regime soldiers have been released in a prisoner swap deal. The...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 local councils of embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have demanded Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to end its presence in the eastern districts of Damascus after reaching a seacefire deal with regime last month. The civil society and armed groups in Ghouta...
Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance outside Damascus Friday for morning prayers marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, state media reported. Since the start of Syria's devastating conflict in 2011, Assad has only left the capital on a few occasions. This year,...
(Politico)- The leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is likely still alive and hiding somewhere near the Iraq-Syria border, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group said Thursday. Army Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend, asked about the status of the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian displaced in al-Mabrouka camp have been suffering of deteriorating living conditions as hundreds of people keep pouring to the northern Hasaka province fleeing ISIS-held territories in Deir Ezzor, local activists said. About 1000 people reached the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prices of sacrificial animals in southern Daraa province, which has been liberated this year, have increased mostly due to the smuggling of livestock, high fodder prices and transportation costs. Awad al-Joudi, a sheep farmer in Daraa province said, "the few days...
A convoy of Islamic State fighters began a new attempt to reach territory held by the militant group in eastern Syria on Thursday after being blocked by U.S.-led airstrikes, despite warnings of more military action. More than 300 lightly armed IS fighters and about 300 family members...
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday he had traveled to Damascus to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to request the evacuation of Islamic State fighters from their enclave on the Syria-Lebanon border. The evacuation convoy left the border area late on Monday to...
