The U.S.-led coalition downed a Syrian army jet on Sunday in the southern Raqqa countryside during a Syrian combat mission against Islamic State militants, the Syrian army said. An army statement released on Syrian state television said the plane crashed and the pilot was missing. It said...

Iran fired missiles on Sunday into eastern Syria, aiming at the bases of militant groups it holds responsible for attacks in Tehran which left 18 dead last week, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported. Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched the mid-range ground-to-ground missiles from western...

At least one person has been wounded after a convoy seeking to deliver aid to a besieged Syrian rebel-held town came under fire, the local Red Crescent said. The incident occurred on Saturday as the convoy attempted to access Harasta in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, the Syrian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched surprise attack on Kurdish militia in the southern countryside of Hasaka, local activists said Sunday. Ahmed al-Ali, Hasaka-based activist, said ISIS suicide bombers had started the attack onthe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five civilians, including four from the same family, were killed in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes on the city of al-Mayadeen, east of Deir ezzor province, local monitoring group said Saturday. Furat Post said the U.S.-led strikes hit a school sheltering displace...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Poweful Kurdish  PYD militia has launched a new arrest campaign in the villages of the al-Malikiya area in the countryside of Hasaka targeting young men among the internally displaced to conscript them to serve in the PYD militias. The internally displaced young men and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Saturday circulated footage on social media for a man was brutally tortured by an Islamist group in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs over claim he works for Jaish al-Islam. Hassan Yahia from Saqba suburb said he had been tortured by militants affiliated to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have prevented displaced people from returning to their homes in the rural areas of Raqqa following the expulsion of the Islamic State fighters from their villages and towns. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, a local source said that some of...

Russia said Saturday that airstrikes carried out this month had killed about 180 ISIS fighters in Syria, including two field commanders. "As a result of June 6 and 8 aerial strikes on targets belonging to IS fighters, ISIS field commanders Abu Omar al-Belgiki and Abu Yasin al-Masri were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown assailants killed a prominent rebel fighter in coastal Latakia province amid hike in targeting rebel commanders by pro-regime militias, field source said Saturday. Mohamed Ali, commander in the Division 13, key Free Syrian Army unit, was assassinated by an armed group...

The United Nations special mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, wants to start a fresh round of talks between Syrian factions on July 10, his office said on Saturday. Since a resumption of negotiations last year, there have been multiple rounds brokered by the United Nations between...

The Syrian military has announced the cessation of all combat operations in the southern city of Daraa for 48 hours in support of national reconciliation. The announcement Saturday comes days after the contested city witnessed some of the worst fighting in months amid fears by opposition...

 (Zaman Al  Wasl)- Turkish-backed rebels in northern city of al-Bab ended five days of infighting as 12 rebel factions sign a deal regulates using of weapons and demands rebels to evacuate military bases in the former ISIS stronghold, local council said Saturday. It was not clear...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mother of Abdul Basset al-Sarout, a revolution Icon and vocal supporter, has demanded the former al Qaeda branch in Syria, to release her son  after two months of arbitrary arrest in northern Idlib province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A U.S.-backed militia opened fire on displaced families were trying to reach their village in the northern countryside of Raqaa, leaving five people wounded, eyewitness said on Friday. Al-Snadeed, tribesmen militia and key unit in the Syrian Democratic Forces, has...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 regime army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed in the last two weeks, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 9 officers, mostly killed in the Syrian desert, Daraa and Damascus suburbs, according to activists Mustafa...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Maarrat al-Numan in northern Idlib province on Friday went to streets, for the third time, protesting the mounting abuses of Tahrir al-Sham, the powerful Islamist alliance that led by Jaish Fateh al-Sham, the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria, local reporter...

Kurdish fighter Habun Kamishli proudly recalled the cat and mouse game she played with an Islamic State suicide bomber in the Syrian town of Raqqa, where the militant group is likely to make its last stand. “I was standing on a rooftop yesterday as our forces advanced. I noticed he was...

Air strikes hit rebel-held districts east of Damascus Thursday for the first time in weeks after shells landed in parts of the capital controlled by the Syrian government, a Reuters witness and a war monitor said. Fighting and bombardment around Damascus have eased significantly since...

A U.N. humanitarian aid adviser for Syria says trucks are being prepared to ship polio vaccine into ISIS-held areas of Deir al-Zor governorate following confirmation of a "very dangerous" outbreak of the virus. Jan Egeland made the comments to reporters Thursday in the wake of the...