(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military pilot who once served in Shayrat airport shed the light on strategic airbase that was hit early Friday by 59 US Tomahawk missiles in a disciplinary act by Donald Trump administration over the deadly chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun town last Tuesday that left 103...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people killed Friday in a Russian airstrike on Idlib province hours after U.S. air strikes on regime air base in central Syria left 6 soldiers killed, activists said. The provocative strike by Russia on Heesh town and neighboring villages in the southern...

( Reuters )- Syria's information minister said Friday the U.S. strike that hit a Syrian army airbase in Homs province was "limited" and he did not expect any further military escalation. "I believe this strike was limited in time and space, and it was expected," Ramez Turjman said in a phone...

( Reuters )- The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that swiftly drew sharp criticism from Russia. Two U.S. warships fired 59...

 The Syrian opposition welcomed U.S. strikes against a Syrian government airbase on Friday and called for more after two American warships fired dozens of missiles at the airfield in a sharp escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria. The Syrian opposition has long been critical of...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House studied military options. Facing his biggest foreign crisis since taking office in January, Trump suggested...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Thursday stormed an oil-rich area held by Kurdish PYD militia in Hasaka province, activists said as the clashes still underway. ISIS posted online footage of the attack on Kubaib oil wells east of al-Shaddadi town near the Iraqi border, activist Mohamed...

( Reuters )- A U.S.-Syrian ISIS militant who helped run an online media campaign disseminating extremist material to sympathizers around the world from its self-declared caliphate has been killed in Syria, the group said. Ahmad Abousamra was killed in early January when a missile struck a...

( Independent )- Israel’s former chief rabbi, Yisrael Meir Lau, boldly stated Thursday that what is taking place in neighbouring Syria is a Holocaust. He also criticised Israel’s long-standing position to not get involved in that country’s civil war and said he dreamed Israel would step up to...

( Reuters )- A deadly poison gas attack in Syria this week led TV news bulletins across the West with images of the victims -- children and adults struggling to breathe -- front and center. In Russia, it was item 10 of 17 and the victims were not shown. Western governments have unanimously...

( Daily Star )- At least 27 children were killed in the attack in Syria this week, and more than 500 people wounded in a toll that is expected to rise, UNICEF said Thursday. "The killing of children in Syria cannot be allowed to continue," said Geert Cappelaere, Middle East regional director...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Thursday stepped up airstrikes on southern Daraa city as rebels press gains in strategic district in the Old City, taking security barracks, local activists said. Al-Manshiya neighborhood, the regime’s largest barrack in Daraa and which is a home for...

( Reuters )- The Syrian government set conditions on Thursday for any international inquiry into a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of people, saying it must not be "politicized" and should set out from Damascus and not Turkey. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said Syria's past...

( Daily Star )- Syria's armed forces "did not and will not" use chemical weapons, even against extremist groups, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Thursday. "I stress to you once again: the Syrian army has not, did not and will not use this kind of weapons -- not just against our own...

( Daily Star )- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said there is no "option except victory" in the country's civil war in an interview published Thursday, saying the government could not reach "results" with opposition groups that attended recent peace talks. The interview with Croatian...

( Daily Star )- Autopsy results have revealed that chemical weapons were used in an attack which killed at least 70 people in Syria's Idlib province, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told reporters Thursday. Thirty-two victims of Tuesday's attack have been brought to Turkey and three...

( Bellingcat )- In response to allegations of a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4th 2017 the Russian Ministry of Defence made a statement where it claimed a warehouse containing chemical agents was hit in the same town as the attacks were reported to have occurred: The Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 rebel groups operating in coastal Latakia province  launched major attack on regime forces said its in retaliation to a chemical attack on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun that left 86 people dead. Powerful Haya't Tahrir al-Sham, led by former al-Qaeda...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Democratic Forces clashed Wednesday with ISIS near al-Safsafa village near Tabqa airbase as the US-backed militia pressed major gains in Raqqa province, local activist said. Activist Muhab Naser said the fight is still ongoing near the Euphrates Dam amid fears of...

 The Trump administration has been sending mixed messages on Syria, but President Donald Trump and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley indicated Wednesday that the US might be putting military action on the table in light of a recent chemical attack. The Tuesday attack on a rebel-held...