Syrian regime military is ready to halt fire around the rebel-held town hit by a suspected chemical attack if experts are sent in to conduct a probe, Russia's defense ministry said Monday. "The command of the Syrian armed forces has expressed readiness to cease hostilities in Khan...

Al-Qaeda's leader has urged his followers and all militants in Syria to unite ranks and prepare for protracted war. Ayman al-Zawahri told the extremists to remain steadfast and change tactics to a guerrilla war. His remarks came in an audio message released on Monday by al-Qaeda's media arm...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes stepped up its aerial bombing on the northern countryside of Homs province, killing 5 civilians, local reporter said on Monday. The airstrikes have targeted towns of Teldo, Kafrlaha, Tel Zahab and al-Tybah. Two women were among the casualties. In...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Samir Nashar, former member of the National Coalition, said the U.S. policy towards the Syrian opposition has made fundamental change after the deadly chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on April 4. In a statement to Zaman al-Wasl, Nashar said that the...

Cement group LafargeHolcim says its chief executive officer is resigning, weeks after the multinational acknowledged that its branch in northern Syria had struck deals with armed groups so that it could keep business there running. The resignation of Eric Olsen is effective July 15, the...

Britain's former ambassador to Syria who defended President Bashar al-Assad had already accepted a senior position in a lobby group run by the dictator's father-in-law, The Telegraph reported. Peter Ford had sparked outrage earlier this month when he claimed in a BBC interview that Assad would...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Sunday launched counterattack on the U.S.-led forces near Tabqa city, taking advantage of a sand storm sweeping the northeastern province of Raqqa. ISIS fighters attacked bastions of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the villages of Ayed al-Kabir,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl0 At least 16 officers and soldiers from from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha in coastal Latakia province have been killed in April, local activists said. The death toll included 8 officers who were killed throughout Syria. Qardaha Newspaper has mourned 40...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel have withdrawn from Helfaya town in northwestern Hama province after cutting off the supply routes by regime forces and allied Shiite militias, activists told Zaman a-Wasl Sunday. The week-long heavy clashes in the northern countryside ended with the fall of...

An Israeli attack on a camp for pro-regime forces killed three fighters near the Golan Heights on Sunday, an official from the forces said. The official told AFP that two fighters were also wounded in the attack on the Al-Fawwar camp near Quneitra in southwestern Syria, adding that it was...

(The Daily Star)- Lebanese Army units deployed heavily in the northeast Lebanon town of Hermel and surrounding areas early Sunday morning in search of fugitives, arms and contraband, state media said. In addition to the fixed checkpoints in the town, temporary barricades were set up in the...

An opposition war monitor and media platform say airstrikes have knocked out a medical center in Syria's rebel-held northern province. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Saturday's airstrikes seriously damaged the medical center in Abdin village in Idlib, putting it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday have engaged in fierce fighting with  regime forces and allied militias in Hama province as regime seeks to expand its territory along the strategic western highway between Damascus and Aleppo. The regime forces that advanced into the strategic...

(Zaman Al Wasl) “Why are you holding us accountable for killing civilians in Syria, and you are killing them in Mosul? We will do the same as you,” said the regime Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to a low-ranking US official. The bluntness of al-Moallem’s comment is not strange as he said at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Powerful Kurdish PYD militia has carried out major conscription campaign in Hasaka province as the U.S.-allied group is mobilizing troops to expel ISIS from last pockets in northern Syria, local activists said. Hundreds of young men have been transferring to conscription...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group said the Syrian opposition had not involved in direct talks with Iran-allied Shiite militias over the Qatari hunting party who was kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 and released on Friday. Imad el-Din Mujahed said the...

( The Guardian )- Syrian families are naming their children Putin as a mark of gratitude for the Russian president’s support for his Syrian counterpart in the six-year war, a government official has said. The Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riyad Haddad, said Bashar al-Assad had also made...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The deputy commander of Ahrar Al-Sham Movement told Zaman al-Wasl that most the freed detainees due to the four-town evacuation deal were employees and civilians and no activists or political detainees had been released. Anas Najib said the first batch of released...

Rebels have reached an agreement with the Syrian government for it to release 500 prisoners who will then cross into rebel territory Friday as part of a swap deal between the warring sides, a rebel official told Reuters. Mohamad Abu Zeid, a spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham faction, said...

Syrian President Bashar Assad was quoted Friday as saying that the group formerly known as the Nusra Front carried out the bombing of a convoy of evacuees from two Shi'ite villages Saturday that killed 126. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing. Assad's comments were quoted...