(Zaman Al Wasl)- The autonomous Kurdish administration halted the construction works in three schools sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in northeastern Syria over demands to implement the Kurdish curriculum in these schools, local reporter said.  ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State denied Syrian regime reports of advances east of Raqqa city on Thursday, saying it has recaptured 4 villages and killed about 100 soldiers and allied militants, 58 of them in suicide bombing attack.   The radical group's news feeds said ISIS fighters...

The Syrian army and its allies have surrounded Islamic State forces in a second large enclave in the center of the country, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said on Thursday. The Syrian military advanced south from southern areas of Raqqa province, joining up with their forces north of...

The United Nations called on Thursday for a humanitarian pause to allow an estimated 20,000 trapped civilians to escape the Syrian city of Raqqa, and urged the U.S.-led coalition to rein in air strikes that have caused casualties. "Boats on the Euphrates must not be attacked, people who come...

Even as tensions between the United States and Russia fester, there is one surprising place where their military-to-military contacts are quietly weathering the storm: Syria. It has been four months since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered cruise missile strikes against a Syrian airfield...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians killed and 10 more wounded on Thursday in renewed airstrikes by the Syrian warplanes on Hola region in central Homs province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl.   thursday's strikes hit Kafrlaha and Tel Thahab towns in the northERN countryside of Homs,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Teachers in Raqqa countryside have opened school doors to children after years during the past few weeks despite destruction of school buildings as they were at the top of the list of International Coalition targets to fight ISIS. According to Abdullah al-Khalil from...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 displaced people fleeing ISIS areas killed on Wednesday in the U.S. airstrikes on northern Hasaka province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   The deadly aerial campaign in support for Kurdish-led forces fighting ISIS in northeastern Syria has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has been holding for several weeks a number of residents of Deir al-Zour who were based in the capital Damascus to pressure Jiash Usud al-Sharqiya so far refuses to enter into a negotiation process that does not include the release faction military prisoners....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish forces took key district in Raqqa city after 48 hours of deadly bombing left more than 120 people killed, local activists said.   The Syrian Democratic Forces took full control of the neighborhood of al-Rashid east of the war-torn city. The...

(The New York Times)- In an effort to purge extremist propaganda from its platform, YouTube has inadvertently removed thousands of videos that could be used to document atrocities in Syria, potentially jeopardizing future war crimes prosecutions, observers and rights advocates say....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people killed on Tuesday in rebel-held northern Homs countryside in spite of de-escalation agreement, local reporter said.   The regime's ground and aerial bombing have been reported in many villages and towns in the northern countryside of the central...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 170 civilians have been killed in a week of heavy aerial bombing in Raqqa city as U.S. allies face resistance inside the eastern and western neighbourhoods of the  de facto capital of the Islamic State, monitoring groups said. Raqqa Is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Teachers and staff in ten schools with the participation of a group of Arab students and their parents, gathered to protest the Democratic Union Party imposing a Kurdish curriculum on schools in the Ghurayan neighborhood south of Hasaka city on Tuesday. According to...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak began among Syrian refugees in Wadi Khaled refugee camps in Lebanon, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday.   Dr. Odai Obeid, Director of the district Health Center said they identified Leishmania after checking the...

The next round of talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran on settling the Syrian civil conflict has been pushed back from late August to mid-September, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said Tuesday. Kazakhstan hosts the talks which have in the past few months focused on establishing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jihadist fighters blamed Ahmad Wahid al-Abd, the Islamic State jurist and the head of a group of Islamic State fighters who recently surrendered himself to the Hezbollah militia, for losing rebel strongholds at the Syrian-Lebanese border.  In an exclusive...

Russia on Monday hailed what it said was "a dramatic shift" in the Syria conflict, saying that the Syrian army, with Moscow's help, was well on its way to pushing militants out of the central part of the country. In a statement from the Russian Defence Ministry, Colonel-General Sergei...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 people have been killed in deadly U.S. airstrikes on Raqqa city, local activists said on Monday as more than 40,000 people still trapped by aerial and ground bombing. Raqqa-based activist Ahmed Shalabi said the U.S.-led airstrikes, in support of Kurdish-led...

As Shawakh al-Omar huddled with 16 relatives in a single room in house in Islamic State's Syrian stronghold Raqqa, a mortar round slammed into the home next door, killing four people and shaking the building. The 57-year-old decided they should make a run for it. "We didn't even have...