(Zaman Al Wasl) A commander in Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham revealed the terms of the five-town agreement after they were undeclared for some time. The commander indicated that the agreement includes five areas, not the previously known four, including Madaya, al-Zabadani, Yarmouk camp, Kafarya,...

 Buses evacuated thousands of people from two rebel-besieged Shi'ite villages in northwest Syria on Friday and hundreds of rebels left a town near Damascus with their families, under a deal between the government and insurgents. A monitoring group said government forces later entered...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 regime troops have been killed by rebels in al-Manshiya neighborhood in southern Daraa city, a military operation room said Friday. Al-Bonyan al-Marsous Operation Room said that the opposition fighters launched attack on regime checkpoints early Friday,...

Buses evacuated thousands of people from two rebel-besieged Shi'ite villages in northwest Syria on Friday and hundreds of rebels left a town near Damascus with their families, under a deal between the government and insurgents. A monitoring group said government forces later entered...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The spokesman for opposition's High Negotiations Committee said the recent developments followed Khan Sheikhoun gas attack are due to delay Astana talks as the White House follows new policy in Syria pushing for ousting Bashar al-Assad.  Dr. Yahya...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Gathering for the Revolutionary Forces and Opposition said Thursday it condemned the foreign intervention in northeastern Hasaka province, affirming its adherence to the native identity of the city. During the press conference Thursday in Gaziantep under caption...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Insulin is running out in many areas in the embattled Eastern suburbs of Damascus, which threatens lives of diabetics and their health. The Hospital of al-Rajaa in Barzeh, northeastern district of Damascus, has appealed to Human Rights organizations and the World Health...

A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling ISIS in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday. U.S. Central Command said coalition aircraft were given the wrong coordinates by their partner forces, the predominantly-Kurdish...

 Syrian authorities – "abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth" – still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday. The strong comments by Kenneth D. Ward, the American ambassador to the...

( The Guardian )- One afternoon, I managed to sneak away to see the Krak des Chevaliers. This medieval castle used to be a big tourist destination. I’d met some people in Jordan a couple of years ago who told me that it was absolutely stunning.  We were delivering sheep to farmers...

( Independent )- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated that his government had nothing to do with the chemical gas incident in a rebel-held village last week that killed more than 80 people. Allegations that his forces had deliberately poisoned civilians were ''100 per cent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes have renewed bombing on Daraa and Idlib provinces, using Napalm and Phosphorus bombs, local activists and media center said Thursday. At least 8 people were wounded overnight in Napalm bombs attack targeted the town of Jisr al-Shughour in the western...

The Syrian army said that an airstrike late Wednesday by the U.S.-led coalition hit poison gas supplies belonging to ISIS, releasing a toxic substance that killed "hundreds including many civilians." The incident in the eastern Deir al-Zor province proved that ISIS and al Qaeda-linked...

 U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State in Syria launched a new phase of their offensive on Thursday, a statement said, but they have not yet begun to attack the militant group's stronghold of Raqqa city in an apparent delay in the operation. The multi-phased campaign by the Syrian...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The  Kurdish Democratic Union militia handed its checkpoints over to the Assyrian fighters in the villages of Khabur area in Hasaka province, such a step towards the Assyrian self-Administration. According to Assyrian sources, the Democratic Union Party handed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is unable to supply sufficient quantities of bread and foodstuffs in eastern Deir Ez Zor city, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Jalal al-Hamd, the director of the Justice Observatory for Life in Deir Ez Zor,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists in northeastern Damascus district of Barzeh  accused the local aid office of practicing a policy of starving the neighborhood’s remaining residents to force them to accept a “reconciliation” with the regime. ,Such a reconciliation would involve the...

 Russia blocked a Western effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week's deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident. It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old...

( The Wall Street Journal )- The suspected sarin gas attack in Syria last week revealed one of the worst-kept secrets in international diplomacy: A 2013 deal brokered by Russia and the U.S. failed to cripple the Assad regime’s ability to make or use chemical weapons. International...

Syria's government and rebels exchanged some 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday. Hakim Baghdadi, a member of the relief committee for al-Foua and Kfarya, two...