Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of Daesh (ISIS) fighters on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 militants, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. Daesh is concentrating its forces around Deir al-Zor after being...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A young Syrian police officer was beaten almost to death by pro-Assad militants in Homs province when he was with his patrol checking the cars entering to the central city, activists said on Sunday.   Militants of Nusoor Homs militia, or Homs Eagles, refused to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group arrested 8 moderate fighters over claims they contacted regime army in northern Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.   The rebel fighters, who fled Madaya town with their families last April due to the four-town evacuation...

Rocket fire injured several people Sunday near the entrance to the Damascus International Fair, a key business gathering being held for the first time in five years, Syrian media said. State television, citing its reporters on the scene, said the rocket hit near the entrance of the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that while his country had foiled Western designs to topple him, his army had not won defeated insurgents and the fight was continuing. In an televised address, Assad said that even though there were signs of victory after six-and-a-half years...

Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded on Sunday when their armored vehicle hit a landmine on the Lebanese-Syrian border, a security source said. The area where the soldiers were killed was near a border stronghold close to the mountains of Arsal, where...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 worshipers were killed on Saturday when U.S.-led coalition airstrikes struck a mosque at the Syrian-Iraqi border, local activists said.   The U.S. strikes hit the ISIS-held village of al-Jazza’ In the southern countryside of Hasaka city, two days...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A commander in US-led Syrian Democratic Forces has offended displaced women to force her family to leave their house in the town of al-Shadadi, south of Hasaka city. Local activists confirmed that Ahmed Jaffal Abu Hamza, an element in Deir al-Zour military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and dozen more wounded in regime airstrikes on Hola region in central Homs province, local reporter said on Saturday.   The regime warplanes conducted 4 raids in new violation to the de-escalation agreement in the rebel-held northern countryside....

Syriac Orthodox Christians in Syria's northeastern city of Hassakeh celebrated the inauguration of the community's new bishop on Saturday, four years after the last one left the country. Six years of conflict have ravaged Syria and displaced more than half of its population, including...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS affiliated group launched surprise attack on moderate rebels in Southern Daraa province in retaliation to death of its commander in US-led coalition airstrike, rebel spokesman said on Saturday.   Jaysh Khaled Ibn al-Walid, which pledged allegiance to the...

A car bomb on Saturday hit the Syrian port city of Latakia with reports of injuries, the Lebanese Hezbollah group's al Manar television station and a monitor said. The television station flashed that an explosive laden car caused the blast in the Tashreen district of the city that lies in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four suffocation cases have been reported in Eastern Ghouta suburbs due to a regime toxic gas attack on the besieged Jobar neighborhood near the capital in spite of two-week-old ceasefire deal, medics said on Saturday. The Medical Center of Jobar said regime forces have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten people wounded in rocket attack launched by US-led Kurdish forces on al-Bab town in northern Aleppo province, local activists said on Saturday.    The assault of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) late on Friday was the first since Turkey-backed Free...

The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier. The Lebanese army operation got underway at 5 a.m....

Syria's army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, Hezbollah-run media and a war monitor reported on Friday. President Bashar al-Assad's military has advanced against Daesh along two prongs towards...

An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government would confront any "illegitimate" forces, whether Turkish or American. Bouthaina Shaaban said the fact that Syria was staging the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has reached a ceasefire deal with regime forces after weeks of fierce fighting near the capital, the group said in statement Friday.   Failaq al-Rahman agreed to join the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group on Thursday arrested a prominent rebel fighter in northern Idlib province, commander said.   The former al-Qaeda group in Syria arrested Basem al-Hammoud, 34, who operates under the Northern Division banner. The...

Syria has more than six months' worth of strategic wheat reserves, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister Abdullah al-Gharbi said on Thursday. While President Bashar al-Assad has scored vital military gains against rebels seeking to oust him in a six-year-old civil war he is under...