(Zaman Al Wasl)- For the first time, hundreds of residents of Saraqib city participated in elections to vote for a local council in the opposition governed areas of rural Idlib on Tuesday.  Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Mohammad Musfra, the director of Public Relations in the former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 15 family members, including 11 children, were escaping heavy aerial bombing in Raqqa province, local activists said Wednesday. Two families, mostly women and children, from Zour Shammar village were the latest victim of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes are still ongoing between Ahrar al-Sham and Tahrir al-Sham, the main Islamist groups in Idlib for the second day ending 2-day-old truce amid fears of widespread violence in the whole northern province. The fight extended to 14 towns and villages in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes erupted on Tuesday between the two main Islamist groups in Idlib, less than 48 hours of fragile truce amid fears of widespread violence in the northern province. A woman was killed and dozen were wounded on Tuesday when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A UNDP charity partner released statistics indicating that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces and the Global Coalition forces destroyed tens of houses in the village of al-Badia in Jabal Abdul Aziz area, west of Hasaka. The news comes ahead of plans to rebuild the village...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 36 regime troops, including 6 officers, from Tartus province in the first half of July by rebels and Islamic State, regime news feeds said. Most of regime deaths were Alawites, the Assad family's sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, since the the Syrian war turned...

A suicide car bomber killed four people at a checkpoint in a Kurdish-controlled area of northeastern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A Kurdish official confirmed an attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish Kurdish internal security force, but had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four members of Asayish, Kurdish Police force, were killed on Monday when a car bomb set off near their base in Hasaka province, residents and Asayish said. A Kurdish official confirmed to Reuters that the attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish but had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine regime troops killed and wounded in the ongoing clashes with the Islamic State in the Syrian desert, pro-regime news feeds said Monday. The casualties included General Brigadier as heavy clashes take place near al-Sukhna town, 220 km (150 miles) east of central...

Syrian government forces have swept across territory south of the Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Raqqa, capturing a string of villages and oilfields from the militants, state media said Monday. The landscape south of Raqqa city strategically borders several provinces: Aleppo to the west, Homs to...

Israeli Pime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he opposes the deal brokered by the United States and Russia that led to an open-ended ceasefire in southern Syria, saying it does not sufficiently address Iranian military ambitions in the area. Placing himself at odds with US...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham reached a deal to end a week of tensions that raised fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Press officers of former al Qaeda branch told Zaman al-Wasl. Imad el-Din Mujahed said both warring parties...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The committee assigned to negotiate on behalf of the Syrian resistance controlled cities and towns of the eastern region of Qalamoun reached a “tentative agreement” with the al-Assad regime forces at a meeting held Sunday evening under the auspices of Russia. Speaking...

While thousands of people scramble to flee Syria’s battle-torn Raqqa, members of the Sheikh Wais family bravely headed back in to recover the bodies of loved ones killed there. Dodging shelling, airstrikes and snipers, the four Syrian Kurds finally made it back into the western district of...

Syrian state media say shells have hit the Russian embassy in Damascus causing material damage. State news agency SANA said two shells were fired at the Russian embassy Sunday, one hitting the compound while the other fell nearby. Syrian rebels in the suburbs of the capital have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 8 people on Sunday in eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping the death toll to 26 in less than 24 hours, activists said. The strikes hit a commercial zone in al-Mayadeen city after a day of deadly strikes left 8 family members dead,...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Al-Raqqah once deeply connected to the name al-Rashid for centuries, is now only known as ‘the capital of the Islamic State’.  For this privilege alone, the city and all its civilians, according to the Islamic State, must pay the heavy price of death and displacement...

Syrian state television reported a "terrorist explosion" north of the government-held coastal city of Latakia on Sunday and cited reports of casualties. The blast took place in Ras Shamra, a town about 12 km (7 miles) north of the city, state television said. It gave no further details....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A child girl was killed and several people were wounded Sunday in regime missile attack on Jisr al-Shughour town in Idlib province, local media center said. Idlib Media Center said regime forces launched the rebel-held town And neighboring villages early...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 Shiite militants killed by the Islamic State as fierce fighting takes place in Syrian desert east of of Homs province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The radical group launched counter attack on Iran-backed al-Ridha militia in Palmyra desert, also known...