A U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance has seized new territory west of ISIS' Syrian bastion Raqqa, bringing it closer to a final attack on the city, activists said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an operation to capture Raqqa in northern Syria last November, and have...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman al-Wasl)- Well-informed sources report that the authorities in Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan have prohibited the entrance of Syrian nationals holding passports issued by the opposition Syrian National Coalition. The news comes although,...

U.S.-backed forces captured a town west of Raqqa from Islamic State on Friday as they push toward the militants' Syrian stronghold, a security source and a monitoring group said. The United States said this week it started distributing weapons to Kurdish YPG militiamen who form a key part of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The former spokesman for Jaysh al-Islam on Friday has cut his links with the powerful Islamist group that operates in Eastern Ghouta suburbs after ten months since his resignation as spokesman after a controversial interview with an Israeli think received considerable...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says a chemical attack in Syria was a provocation against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Speaking at an economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, Putin strongly reaffirmed Russia's view that Assad's forces weren't responsible for a fatal chemical attack in...

Syria is unlikely to see a major "Marshall Plan" for reconstruction as peace remains elusive despite hundreds of thousands more civilians possibly returning to their homes, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking after his fifth...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 52 regime troops, including 11 officers, from coastal Tartus province were killed in May by rebels and the Islamic State, regime news feeds said.   Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful militant supplier, say no men left in the city. Funerals are...

By Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military police have arrested 173 young men using fake security identities to escape conscription and to cross the countless army checkpoints easily, father of one of the detainees told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Rasheed said he paid $2000 to an...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights has published its periodic death toll report for the month of May 2017 in which it documented the killing of 964 civilians at the hands of the parties to the conflict in Syria. The report sheds light on the de-escalation zones agreement...

The U.S. military said on Thursday it had bolstered its "combat power" in southern Syria, warning that it viewed Iran-backed fighters in the area as a threat to nearby coalition troops fighting Islamic State. The remarks by a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition battling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hussam al-Atrash, a senior leader in Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, published a series of tweets saying that Sunnis in Idlib and its environs should hand over the area to the Interim Government to administrate since it had international legitimacy in a bid to avoid genocide and the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel group operating in northern Aleppo province denounced a footage went viral on social media for a man severely tortured by a suspected Free Syrian Army unit.   Al Hamza Division and Liwa al-Sultan Mouhamed al-Fatih, separately, said that they are not...

About 10,000 civilians have fled to a camp just north of ISIS' bastion of Raqqa with hundreds more arriving each day as the battle for the city nears, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Residents are escaping Raqqa under cover of night as U.S.-backed forces close in, taking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians were killed when two explosive devices detonated at the roadside in southern Daraa province, activists said Thursday.   The attack targeted a vehicle carrying Free Syrian Army commanders on the road of Kafr Shams-Aqraba in the northern countryside....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-led airstrike killed first aide of Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, the group’s news feeds said Thursday. Ben Ali was also known as Abu Sufyan al-Selmi and Abu Humama al-Athari, according to the leaked ISIS data which obtained...

Russia said on Thursday it was systematically bombing any ISIS militants trying to flee Syria's Raqqa and had carried out two such bombing runs in the last week. A U.S.-led coalition is supporting an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in their campaign to capture Raqqa city, ISIS'urban...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least 25 regime troops and allied Shiite militants were killed on Wednesday in fierce clashes with Western-backed rebels in a region of Syria's southeastern desert, known as al-Badia, opposition media outlets said.    Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, one...

By Nouri Badi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammad Abed al-Manan Abdou, an elderly man in his 70s, did not expect that he would be killed with his wife, Salam Rashouh, and his grandson, Mohammed, in a US-led coalition airstrike.  Abdou and his family had been living under the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Women's Association held their founding conference in the town of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in northern Idlib province this week including 35 women representing various women's centers operating in the province. During the conference, an Association president, deputy...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people from the same family have been killed Wednesday in the US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city, as its allied Kurdish fighters reached the northern entrance of the city, the activist-operated Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said. The intense...