Turkey is taking necessary measures along its 150 km border with the Syrian province of Idlib, where militants linked to a former Al Qaeda-affiliate have taken control, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday. Yildirim was speaking a day after Turkey's customs minister said Turkish...

( The Guardian )- Concerns are mounting over the civilian cost of the US-led coalition’s campaign to reclaim Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, with reports of airstrikes killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians.  The reports, which cannot be definitively confirmed but are...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Friday Prayers have been suspended in the northern countryside of  Homs as regime forces keep violating a one-week-old truce, according to statement issued by Shariah Court.   The main clergy body in Hola region said fears over worshipers lives make the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of northern Homs accused Syrian regime army of violating the one-week-old truce on Thursday that left one man dead. Luai al-Izzo, commander of Ahfad Omar Battalion, said regime warplanes carried out 10 raids on Hola region north of Homs, killing one person and...

The Syrian army and its allies seized control of at least 30 km (19 miles) of Syria's border with Jordan from rebels in an attack on Thursday, two rebel groups and a Syrian military source said. A military media unit run by Hezbollah, a close ally of the Syrian government, said the army and...

 U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months. "We've cleared about half of Old Raqqa ... and we're advancing on all axes," said Haval Gabar,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As losses mount, the Islamic State seeks to recruit all young men in Deir al-Zor and the southern Hasaka countryside to fight the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Russian-backed regime forces. Member of Furat Post network Ahmad Ramdan confirmed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta, said on Thursday it had ambushed army’s elite forces in Ein Tarma, for the second time in 48 hours, leaving 20 soldiers, spokesman said. The elite forces of Fourth Armoured Division...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out 10 raids on Hola region north of central Homs city, killing one person and wounding dozen, a week since Russia brokered a ceasefire deal and deployed its military police, local reporter said on Thursday. The strikes pounded town...

After fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for six years, rebel soldier Abu Mohammed laid down his arms as part of a peace deal in his home town of Moadamiya last year. But he has now fled Syria into Turkey. His reason: the Syrian army told him to report for duty and he feared...

A group of 17 Indonesians who had joined the Islamic State group in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa have been handed over to representatives of their country and have left Syria, a local Kurdish official and a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. According to the official, Omar Alloush, the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have intensified bombing on Jobar neighborhood on Wednesday seeking to take last rebel stronghold in Damascus, local activists and rebel spokesman said. Wael Alwan, spokesman for Faylaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have made limited withdrawal from al-Sukhna town east of central Homs city, due to a series of car bomb attacks carried out by ISIS after three days of taking control of the town, local reporter said Wednesday. The radical group launched...

Women fighters danced to Kurdish songs in a village in northern Syria on Wednesday after completing their military training to join the battle against Daesh (ISIS). The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of local militias supported by a U.S.-led coalition, had given the 210 women a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs as Syrian regime forces and allied militias intensified their bombardment on rebel-held region near the capital, two days after rebels frustrated a regime attempt to advance, activists said Wednesday. The...

In a humid room in the besieged Syrian town of Douma, Abu Nabil inspects the pearly white mushrooms sprouting from white sacks hanging from a ceiling. The oyster mushrooms poking out from holes in the bags are now a substitute for meat in the rebel stronghold, where a government blockade has...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting that airstrikes on parts of the northern city of Raqqa that are controlled by Daesh (ISIS) have intensified, killing at least 29 people in the past two days. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have been trying to capture the city since...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition killed 4 children  in airstrikes hit last ISIS stronghold in northern Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday, a death toll followed a deadly bombing in Raqqa left 29 people, including 14 children. Activist Mohamed Kheder told Zaman al-Wasl that...

Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State killed at least 29 civilians including 14 children in 24 hours in the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa, a war monitor said late on Tuesday. The dead included a family of 14 who had fled to Raqqa from the desert city of Palmyra, the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A committee formed by rebel factions and civil society in northern Homs has met with the Russian military on Tuesday as part of a cease-fire deal reached last week where both parties discussed the fate of forcibly disappeared and detainees as well the food and aid entry...