Islamic State militants in Raqqa are passing themselves off as civilians to try to avoid intensifying air strikes and shooting anyone caught trying to escape their Syrian bastion as U.S.-backed coalition forces close in, witnesses said. At a camp for the displaced in the village of Ain Issa...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopters have dropped more than 600 barrel bombs on southern Daraa province in the last two weeks as well its warplanes have conducted at least 180 raids, including 83 Napalm bomb raids, Civil Defense said Thursday. The local monitoring group said also 580...

(Zaman Al Wasl) At the regime security zone in Qamishli city, a few meters separate regime army members and a People’s Protection Unit traffic policeman. Neither party seems concerned with the other. The famous security zone in Qamishli city, which generated many questions for Syrians, is a...

Syria has given the United Nations permission to get aid to the Kurdish-dominated city of Qamishli by truck, the organization said on Wednesday, relieving the strain on a base supporting thousands displaced by the war with ISIS. Although Qamishli lies on the Turkish border, the crossing is...

U.S. troops based in Syria's southeastern desert have expanded their footprint, rebels there say, increasing the risk of direct ground confrontation between the Americans and Iran-backed pro-government forces. U.S. special forces have been based since last year at Tanf, a strategic Syrian...

Intensified coalition air strikes have killed at least 300 civilians in the Syrian northern city of Raqqa since March, as U.S.-backed forces close in on the stronghold of Islamic State forces, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has enhanced the mounting power of its allied militias with Gazelle helicopters in the Syrian desert, sources said, after reaching the eastern border with Iraq for the first time since 2015. The French helicopters that commonly used for light transport,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including children, were killed in Syrian regime air strikes on a school sheltering displaced people in southern Daraa province, local activists said in an initial death toll. The Wednesday's strikes hit Tafas town in the western countryside of Daraa.  ...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-   U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed a family of five members in Raqqa, backing Kurdish –led forces in the offensive to liberate the city from the Islamic State, local monitor said Wednesday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said the US strikes hit the...

Islamic State militants enslaved Noura Khalaf for three years, dragging her from her small Iraqi village across their territory in Syria. They bought and sold her five times before she was finally freed with her children last week. Khalaf is one of many Yazidi women that Kurdish fighters in...

A group of Syrian doctors based in rebel-held provinces said on Tuesday that aid had dropped markedly over the last two months because donors were losing interest, a factor that will make it harder for them to handle government assaults. Tens of thousands of displaced Syrians have found...

LafargeHolcim, the Swiss-French cement company, faces a French judicial inquiry into allegations it helped finance terrorism in Syria, a scandal that has already led to the exit of its chief executive. The prosecutors’ office in Paris confirmed on Tuesday that three judges would start...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 regime troops have been killed by the Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, local reporter said Tuesday. ISIS has stormed the regime bastion in Tallit al-Sawana northwest of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. 13 forces were killed and dozens...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army has made a sudden advance against Islamic State in the desert area west of Raqqa, a military media unit run by its ally Hezbollah said on Tuesday. Syria's vast deserts have become the main theater of war in recent weeks as rival forces race to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 rebel fighters were killed when Kurdish militias stormed their positions in northern Aleppo province, activists said. Rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had thwarted the suspire attack on Darret Ezza town early Tuesday, retaking checkpoints were...

The United Nations has only limited access to besieged areas of Syria, and humanitarian supplies -- even diapers -- which make it through are often looted by the country’s military, according to a UN coordinator.  Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Kevin Kennedy said the UN was...

A human rights watchdog has urged the U.S.-led coalition battling to capture ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa to make the protection of civilians its priority in the campaign. The New York-based Human Rights Watch says in a statement released on Tuesday that the United States and the local...

A new round of peace talks on Syria in the Kazakh capital of Astana is likely to be held in early July, RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying on Tuesday.   Read More:  Fighting breaks out amongst rebels in city of al Bab...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- A source close to the powerful Jaish al-Islam Islamist group refuted the implications of what was said in a leaked voice recording of Mohamed Alloush, a senior commander and spokesman for Jaish al-Islam.  The voice recording...

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters battling ISIS pushed closer to the Old City in the militant stronghold of Raqqa on Monday, a monitor said. The Kurdish and Arab fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces entered Raqqa for the first time almost a week ago, after months of battle to encircle the...