(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Western-backed FSA faction attacked regime bastions in the Syrian desert after bombing its outposts near the Jordanian border early Tuesday, press offcier said. Usoud al-Sharqiya, which is the largest group operating in the Syrian Desert bordering Jordan, has attacked...

( Middle East Eye )- A green steel barrel loaded with explosives and petrol and crammed with bullets, screws, off-cuts from broken machinery - anything metal and sharp - lays bare the crudeness and cruelty of a war in which hundred of thousands have died. But this "barrel bomb" is far from...

( Chicago Tribune )- For many Americans, horrific images of children bloodied and battered by Syria's civil war have driven outrage and financial support. But for a number of Chicago-based physicians, the conflict in Syria and the oath they took to save lives have converged in their homeland....

(Eqtsad)- Shiite influence has increased in Dommar, western district of Damascus, where many Shiite families have been brought to the neighbourhood, added to buying properties, houses, shops and lands of the neighbourhood to Shiite at high prices.  Ows al-Omawi, manger of...

A new round of United Nations-backed peace talks for war-ravaged Syria is set to begin in Geneva next week, the office of the UN mediator said Monday. "Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura will reconvene the intra-Syrian talks under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva on 16 May 2017,"...

Syria's foreign minister said on Monday that his government would abide by the terms of a Russian plan for "de-escalation" zones so long as rebels also observed it. Walid al-Moualem told a televised news conference that rebels involved in the process must help clear areas they control of...

For residents of besieged Douma, the daily struggle to survive involves not just avoiding the violence that has ravaged the Syrian town, but laboring to obtain scarce basic commodities. Facing a shortage of fuel to run generators and machinery due to the siege, former construction worker Abu...

Malaysia's most-wanted member of ISIS has been killed in Syria, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Monday, citing intelligence information. Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, 26, who was on a U.S. list of global militants, was the alleged mastermind behind a grenade attack on a Kuala Lumpur...

 A group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by the United States captured a district of the town of Tabqa from ISIS on Monday, they said in a statement, a step towards the capture of Syria's largest dam. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been fighting ISIS in Tabqa for weeks,...

Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding that Beijing should be extremely concerned about it. China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim...

(Zaman alWasl)- 15 wounded fighters of the hardline Islamist group formerly known as Nusra Front from Yarmouk Camp, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, left early Monday to rebel-held Idlib province, due to an agreement reached with Iran allowed wounded fighers of the Shiite villges to leave...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The People's Protection Units (YPG) militia and Deir al-Zour Military Council mourned 12 fighters in the past two days killed in clashes with ISIS. In April, about 55 fighters were killed by ISIS, half of them are non-Syrians. According to a media source, 7 bodies of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime bombing killed four civilians on Sunday in southern Daraa province, despite a deal brokered by Russia, regime's main foreign backer, to reduce fighting, local activists said. The ground and aerial bombardment struck towns of Alma, al-Ghariya in the eastern...

The Syrian army seized control of the village of al-Zalakiyat north of Hama on Sunday amid a heavy bombardment, a war monitor reported, despite a deal brokered by Russia, Syria's main foreign backer, to reduce fighting. Violence has raged in the countryside north of Hama for over a month,...

Dozens of ISIS fighters cornered in a northern part of Syria's Tabqa are holding off US-backed forces that hold almost all of the city, a monitor said Sunday. Tabqa sits on the Euphrates River and on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of Raqa, the Syrian heart of...

Agreement has been reached to evacuate wounded fighters of the hardline Islamist group formerly known as Nusra Front from Yarmouk, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, to rebel-held Idlib province, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV reported on Sunday. The agreement is the second phase of an...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Local sources in Barza, north Damascus, told Zaman al-Wasl that the deal is to displace the people and residents of the neighborhood. The first batch will be sent to Idlib on Monday. Sources said the first batch will include about 1500 people, followed by about 7 other batches...

( BBC )- Veteran dissident Riad Seif is a widely respected figure among Syria's opposition groups, known for more than a decade of his activism against President Bashar al-Assad. Mr Seif's latest initiative is a proposal to set up a new leadership body to unite the various opposition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces stepped up their shelling of the villages of al-Asfar, al-Sakia and Khirbat Sa'ad in the north-eastern Swaida countryside under the control of Syrian resistance factions. Facebook page Swaida 24 reported regime army escalation in the region is renewed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 36 regime army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed since mid of April, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 1 general brigadier, 1 captain and 5 lieutenants, mostly were killed in Aleppo, Homs, Daraa and Damascus suburbs....