(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of civilians in ISIS-held areas in eastern Raqqa province have been under severe siege as the daily clashes between the radical group and U.S-allied forces mount, activists said. Muhab Nasser, said thousands of people are stuck in the town of Tabqa. They are trapped...

The evacuation of Syrian civilians and fighters from four besieged towns was completed on Friday after a 48-hour halt, as part of a mediated swap deal between the warring sides, state media and a rebel official said. Thousands of civilians and pro-government fighters from the Shi'ite towns...

A Russian marine major has been killed in combat in Syria, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, confirming an earlier report that one of Moscow's highest-ranking officers there had lost his life. Major Sergei Bordov was killed during an attack by militants on a garrison, they...

The Syrian regime army advanced into the town of Taybet al Imam in Hama province on Thursday, expanding its territory along the strategic western highway between Damascus and Aleppo, the army and rebels said. The government forces were backed by heavy Russian aerial strikes across a...

By Rani Abdo (Zaman Al Wasl) A senior member of the British Labor Party said Iran ordered the allied Shiite militias in Syria to launch offensive on Khan Sheikhoun, almost three weeks since the deadly Sarin gas attack killed 90 people in the northern town. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 52 Iranian-backed Shi'ite fighters have been killed by Free Syrian Army in the last four weeks in Hama province, activists and local monitoring groups said. Syrian rebel who launched major attacks on regime forces and allied militias las March have killed and...

Hundreds of frightened Syrian evacuees from two besieged government-held towns were stuck at a rebel-held transit point Thursday where dozens of their fellow townspeople were killed in a weekend bombing. The 3,000 evacuees, who had left their homes at dawn on Wednesday, spent the night...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Wednesday extended its ground bombing on al-Manshiya district, the last stronghold of regime army in southern Daraa province. The district is almost under rebel control after rapid advance this week, Just Sajna area is still out of rebels control where heavy...

 Sarin or a similar banned toxin was used in an attack in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 that killed nearly 90 people, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Wednesday. The finding supported earlier testing by Turkish and British laboratories. The Organization for the...

The last rebel fighters have left the Syrian town of Zabadani near Damascus as part of a reciprocal evacuation deal for four besieged towns that had been interrupted after a bomb attack hit one convoy, state media and a war monitor said on Wednesday. Thousands of people also left the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led Kurdish militia said in statement posted online it took four villages form the Islamic State in the northern countryside of Raqqa province. Backed the U.S. jets, the Syrian Democratic forces captured villages of Jarwa, Hattash, Bir al-Jarbou’ and Um al-Tanak, pressing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel group in southern Damascus district of Yalda has re-opened the main crossing with the besieged Yarmouk Camp after four days of closure that caused sever suffering and hike in prices, local activists said Wednesday. Jaish al-Islam said the closure...

A bomb killed six people and wounded more than 30 in Syria's second city Aleppo Wednesday, state television reported. The blast hit the southwestern neighborhood of Salaheddin, which was once on the front line between rebels and government forces before the army retook full control of the...

The evacuation of civilians and fighters from besieged Syrian towns resumed Wednesday after a weekend bombing at a transit point killed 126 people, 68 of them children, an AFP correspondent reported. Dozens of buses from the government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, which have been...

Mothers Noha, a Shi'ite, and Samira, a Sunni, were besieged for nearly two years on each side of Syria's civil war. At the weekend they finally escaped the suffocating blockades under an evacuation agreement - but their ordeal was not over. As they waited at two transit points miles apart...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Russian officers and several regime troops were killed Tuesday when Free Syrian Army struck a military barrack with anti-tank missile in the northern countryside of Hama province, according to statement posted online. The missile attack hit Rahbat Khattab, a...

By Abdulsalm Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- rebels of coastal city of Latakia who joined the Syrian revolution in first months or eruption and went out for demonstrations demanding for democracy and dignity, are now either fighters in the countryside of the city, or suppressed in the city, or...

 U.S.-allied militias in northern Syria announced Tuesday the formation of a civilian council to govern Raqqa after their planned capture of the city from ISIS militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces, which include a large contingent from the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed in rebel-held areas of Aleppo and Idlib provinces on Tuesday as regime forces backed by allied militias wage major offensive in the western countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. 10 people, mostly children...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Action Group For Palestinians of Syria called on the Syrian regime to disclose the fate of almost 1200 Palestinian detainees, including 86 women believed to be in its prisons. A report issued by the London-based monitoring has reveled that the number of...