The Syrian regime army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest full control of the city, rebels and residents said on Monday. The intensive raids and bombing strikes...

Turkish-backed rebels fought each other on Sunday in the Syrian town of al Bab in the first bout of rebel fighting since they seized the town this year from Islamic State militants, rebels and witnesses said. It was not clear what triggered the armed clashes between rival rebel groups who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Raqqa killed 12 people, including 7 family members, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the de facto capital of the radical group, local activists and Amaq news agency said. The strikes hit the neighborhood of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Maarrat al-Numan in northern Idlib province on Sunday went to streets protesting the mounting abuses of Tahrir al-Sham, the powerful Islamist alliance that led by former al-Qaeda branch in Syria.  The protest followed tensions escalated last...

US-backed Syrian fighters seized a second district of Raqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city, as they pursued an offensive against the Islamic State group. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) broke into Raqa earlier this week after announcing the start of a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Muslim Brotherhood issued a new national charter in light of the changes that have afflicted the Syrian revolution, stressing that this charter carries much of the future political project for Syria which the Muslim Brotherhood issued in 2004.  The General...

US-backed Syrian fighters said they had seized a second district of Raqqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city, as they pursued an offensive against ISIS. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who broke into Raqqa after announcing the start of a final assault...

Jordan's army said on Sunday its border guards killed five people who were approaching its frontier from Tanf, a Syrian desert town where U.S. special forces training rebels are based. The town has been a flashpoint in recent weeks as militias backed by Iran have tried to get near the U.S....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has redeployed troops near Jabal al-Akrad area in the coastal Latakia province, eyewitness told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The Brigade 103, a Republican Guards unit, has been replaced by special forces from Brigade 53 besides militants from the paramilitary...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes have killed 31 people, including 10 from a singular family, in Raqqa city, local monitoring groups said Saturday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said ten family members were killed when the collation strikes struck their house...

Syrian pro-government forces now hold more than a fifth of the country's strategic desert, the army said Saturday, after reaching the eastern border with Iraq for the first time since 2015. The desert, known as the "Badiya", extends over some 90,000 square kilometers (35,000 square miles)...

A U.S.-backed alliance broke into the western part of ISIS' stronghold Raq1a on Saturday, the force and a monitor said, opening up a second front inside the Syrian city. Backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, the Syrian Democratic Forces have spent months tightening the noose on ISIS-held...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces thwarted a major attack by regime forces and allied militias on southern Daraa city as hundreds of families have been fleeing the border province to escape heavy aerial bombing, local activists said. Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militia, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops and allied militias on Friday have reached the Iraqi border, near the Tanf border crossing where U.S. special forces train local rebels to fight Islamic State, a pro-regime commander said. Field sources said the U.S-led coalition had colluded with...

(Eqtsad)- As soon as the wheat and barley ears dried and gained its golden color, farmers in Daraa countryside hurried to harvest them fearing they would be intentionally burnt by the regime as it has done in previous years or that a rocket or a spark would reach them and a year’s work would...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has stepped up its aerial bombing on the opposition-held areas in southern Daraa province, dropping more than 58 barrel bombs that pushed about 800 families to leave the Old City of Daraa, the local council said on Friday.   Mohamed al-Masalmeh head of...

The Russian military on Friday accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria of providing safe corridors for ISIS to leave the area around its stronghold of Raqqa. Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russian forces in Syria, said ISIS made a deal earlier this month with the Kurdish forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes pounded the opposition-held areas in southern Daraa province with incendiary bombs on Thursday, including the grand mosque in the Old City, residents said.   The Napalm bombs hit the neighborhoods of Daraa al-Balad, al-Sad and al-Mukhayyam....

U.S.-led coalition forces launched heavy raids into Friday morning in support of Syrian fighters battling to oust ISIS from its bastion of Raqqa, activists said. The Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces broke into Raqqa city's east earlier this week, months after they...

Three new cases of polio have been recorded in Syria in the first outbreak of the virus in the country since 2014, the World Health Organization and a partner initiative said. The new cases were registered in the oil-rich province Deir Ezzor, the majority of which is controlled by ISIS and...