By Abdullah Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 15,000 students have been studying in the universities of  the opposition-held areas in Aleppo and dlib, according to the Interim Minister of Higher Education. Abdul-Aziz al-Daghim said despite the security condition,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed detainees held by ISIS in the western countryside of Raqqa on Saturday as the radical group defies Kurdish warning to surrender by the end of May, activists said. The strikes hit an ISIS prison in al-Mansoura town, leaving dozen killed and...

Syrian troops and allied militia have pushed back ISIS militants and U.S-backed opposition fighters, gaining control of a large swath of territory in the country's strategic southern desert, the government-controlled media and a war monitor said Saturday. With the new advances, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 Islamic State fighters were killed Saturday by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Saraya al-Sham at the Lebanese border, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Hussein Abu Ali, the spokesman for Saray al-Sham said his group and the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria had thwarted...

Hundreds of civilians are fleeing two cities held by ISIS in eastern Syria after a series of deadly airstrikes that killed dozens, activists said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based activist group, said a "large-scale displacement" was underway from the cities...

 With its battered facades, pulverized houses and skeletons of buildings, one of the world’s oldest cities, Aleppo, has been utterly devastated by the war in Syria. Now, in Germany, scholars are preparing for its reconstruction one day by creating a detailed map of the Old City and its...

The United States' reengagement in Syria's war gives impetus to the Group of Seven nations to find a political solution to a conflict going on now for over six years, a senior French diplomat said on Friday. France, a NATO ally and key backer of the Syrian opposition, has sharply criticized...

The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since 2014 after driving out extremits, a monitor said on Friday. Since troops recaptured Palmyra from ISIS in March, the UNESCO World Heritage site had been accessible via Syria's third...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Lebanese soldiers on Friday were wounded near Arsal town at the Syrian border when a wanted jihadist blew his explosive belt up during the army raid, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Bilal al-Braidi had been accused of attacking the Lebanese army in Ras Baalbek...

A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen early Friday killed at least 80 relatives of ISIS fighters, activists told AFP. "The toll includes 33 children. They were families seeking refuge in the town's municipal building," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the...

To escape the nightmare of life in their besieged hometown near Syria's capital, 13 young girls sought refuge in a fairytale performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The all-girl cast spent months memorising lines from the classic Brothers Grimm fable before performing in front of a...

(Zaman al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led militias are just two miles far from the first neighborhoods of Raqqa from the eastern side, such an advance followed a promise on Thursday that no harm would come to ISIS fighters in Raqqa who turned themselves in by the end of the month....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Suspected Iraqi airstrikes killed 4 Syrians in ISIS-held city of al-Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The strikes that hit the main marketplace of the city have also left destruction, according to activist Firas Allawi. On Wednesday, 11...

The Syrian regime army said it had retaken a swathe of territory from ISIS in southern Syria Thursday in a rapid advance near areas held by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels at the border with Jordan and Iraq. The Syrian regime said earlier in May that it was a priority to recapture the sparsely...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt from an undisclosed special source that the regime air force has re-equipped four MiG-23 ML aircrafts that were previously stockpiled as unsuitable for use in the recent period. Russia is the regime’s key strategic ally, but the age of the regime’s...

  A U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led militias promised Thursday that no harm would come to ISIS fighters in Raqqa who turned themselves in by the end of the month, calling on them to lay down their arms ahead of an expected assault on the city. The Syrian Democratic Forces, which groups...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A suicide bomber blew himself up in the border Azaz town, leaving five civilians wounded, local police told Zaman la-Wasl on Wednesday. The attack was targeting a Free Syrian Army commander in the strategic town at the border with Turkey. The former ISIS-held town has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 people were killed in in Regime airstrikes on ISIS-held areas in the eastern Deir  Ezzor province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. 11 civilians, including women and children, were killed in al-Mayadeen city and 3 more people were killed in Muhaimdiya...

At least 16 civilians were killed in bombing raids early Wednesday by the US-led coalition near ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqqa, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the toll included a woman and her five children, as well as three couples. "The coalition strikes hit...

The Syrian army said on Wednesday it had killed Islamic State's military commander in Syria during operations in the north of the country, where the Russian-backed government forces are seizing more territory back from the jihadist group. If confirmed, this would represent a major blow...