(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led airstrikes killed three civilians and wounded several more east of Shaddadi town in northeastern Hasaka province, residents said Tuesday. The attack was in retaliation to a deadly four ISIS suicide bombing on Rajm al-Salibi, the location of a checkpoint and refugee...

(Zaman al Wasl)- Syrian regime has increased the tax on the goods and food entering the rebel-held Daraa province in a step pushing for more harsh living conditions, activists said. Every food staple and anything enter the southern province via the the new crossing point in Kherbat Gazaleh...

US-backed fighters battled to clear ISIS from a final pocket of Syria's Tabqa on Tuesday after seizing 90 percent of the city, the force and a monitor said. Tabqa sits on the Euphrates River as well as on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of Raqqa, the Syrian heart...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven local councils in the Eastern Ghouta called on Jaish al-Islam to end its offensive in the embattled suburbs and to end the fighting with rival groups, saying the main loser will be civilians and nothing else, according to statement issued Tuesday. The civil councils...

A Syrian rebel delegation has arrived in the Kazakh capital Astana for Russian-led talks aimed at ending the country's civil war after the group snubbed the previous round, Kazakhstan said Tuesday. A rebel delegation led by Jaish al-Islam faction leader Mohammad Alloush has arrived in Astana...

( New York Times )- Last month’s chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held Syrian town may have caught the world’s — and President Trump’s — attention, but it was not the only recent suspected use of a nerve agent by Syrian government forces. On three other occasions in the months leading up...

( CNN )- An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has learned. The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The local council of Jisr al-Shughour said Tuesday the key northern city is a stricken area as the regime and Russia’s bombing turned big parts of the city in Idlib province into ruins. The city that overlooks on the Alawites-dominated villages of coastal Latakia province has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl learned that 31 prisoners were released on Monday from al-Suwayda prison to fight alongside Assad forces in a deal the regime held with criminals accepting to fight in return for their release. A well-informed source said the group released is the first batch...

 Syria's armed opposition groups have confirmed their attendance at peace talks that are set to resume in the Kazakh capital, Astana, later this week, a Kazakh official said on Tuesday. Mohamed Alloush will head the opposition delegation in the talks. The talks, which will focus on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Tuesday attacked on the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Monday in al-Kubar village in Deir al-Zour, taking advantage of sand storm in the area. At least 8 SDF militants killed in the attack, pro-ISIS news feeds said. The organization confirmed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian military pilot killed his son two weeks ago in an airstrike was supposed to hit rebels in southern Daraa province but hit a regime bastion instead, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The friendly fire has been accustomed in Syria when the Russia bombing killed regime army...

Syrian government forces used deadly nerve gas in Khan Sheikhoun and in three other recent attacks, Human Rights Watch said Monday, describing a "clear pattern" of chemical weapons use that could amount to crimes against humanity. President Bashar Assad's forces are also stepping up chlorine...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful YPG militia, in statement issued Monday, said ten of its fighters had been killed by ISIS this week in the northeastern city of Tabqa, five of them were from Iran and Turkey. The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday they had pushed Islamic State fighters...

A new UN body tasked with identifying individuals guilty of atrocities in Syria should start work shortly, a key step towards holding war crimes suspects to account, the UN rights chief said Monday. A prominent judge or international lawyer to head the panel will be named "soon", after...

U.S.-backed militias said on Monday they had pushed Islamic State fighters out of the old quarters of Tabqa, a strategically vital town controlling Syria's largest dam, hemming the militants into the remaining modern district along the shore. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters on Monday launched major attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northwestern Hama province, killing 11 troops and destroying several tanks and armored vehicles, pro-regime news feeds said. The attack took place north of Salamiyya city near...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Jaish al-Islam group said no orders give to open fire on protests in the Eastern Ghouta as death toll of the 4-day fighting with rival Islamist group topped 120, according to Zaman’s reporter. Local activists surfaced on social media footage showing...

( The Guardian )- In the aftermath of Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish positions in north-east Syria last week, US troops escorted an ageing militant through an angry crowd to inspect the damage. As a senior leader of the Kurdish militant organisation the PKK, Abdi Ferhad Şahin, known as Şahin...

( The Guardian )- Near Aleppo’s ancient citadel, the scent of rose and jasmine rises from the rubble of a half-destroyed shop covered in bullet holes. Months ago it was a battleground, but for years before that it was a perfumery, and war has not changed its smell. For centuries Aleppo’s...