( AFP )- The death toll from a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held Syrian town has risen to 86, 30 of them children, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. "There were also 20 women among the dead and the death toll could rise further because there are people missing," the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian power generating ships expected to provide the coastal cities and towns with electrical power returned the way they came after Russia blocked an agreement to lease the coastal area of Wadi Qandil, north of Lattakia, for 99 years to Iran's Ministry of Defense. Zaman...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Free Syrian Army commander escaped Wednesday an assassination attempt in northern Idlib province where his comrade died in the gun-fire attack. Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Saud, head of Division 13, was with 4 our senior commanders heading a meeting near Maerrit...

( Independent )- With this protracted war dragging its feet, the need for healthcare is perhaps greater in Syria than anywhere else in the world. Pictures of people convulsing and foaming at the mouth after an apparent poison gas attack this week leave us paralysed. The Syrian healthcare...

Some victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria have symptoms consistent with exposure to a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The UN health agency said the deadly attack in Idlib province Tuesday appeared to have involved...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and two children have been killed and eight more wounded in the northeastern province of Hasaka province as heavy clashes still underway between US-led Syrian Democratic Forces and ISIS near al-Shaddadi town, activists said. Hasaka-based activist Ahmad al-Ali said...

Warplanes mounted five air strikes on Wednesday in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria where dozens of people were killed the day before in a suspected chemical attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Syrian army could not immediately be reached for comment on...

A suspected chemical attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria killed dozens of civilians including children and left many more sick and gasping on Tuesday, causing widespread outrage. The attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun killed at least 58 civilians and saw dozens suffering respiratory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Men in coastal Tartus province have no option but to join brigade 145, voluntarily or by force, after informing all the governmental employees about the new decision. The governor of Tartus, Safwan Abo Saadi has issued a decision informing all employees aged between 18-50 to...

The United States has expanded a runway at a northern Syria air base to accommodate the large C-17 military plane needed to help with logistics for the push to retake the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The huge military air freighter will play an essential...

The European Union's aid chief called for more humanitarian access in Syria on Tuesday at an international conference meant to support the country's ailing peace prospects, but one that quickly got overshadowed by a chemical attack inside Syria. As Christos Stylianides spoke at the gathering...

U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday that a "horrific" attack on a rebel-held town in the country that killed at least 58 people was believed to be chemical and launched from the air. "What we have understood, it was a chemical attack and it came from the air," de Mistura told...

A chemical attack that killed 58 civilians, including 11 children,  in a northwestern town Tuesday "calls the political process into question", the opposition's chief negotiator at peace talks told AFP. "If the United Nations cannot deter the regime from carrying out such crimes,...

A rocket slammed into a hospital in northwestern Syria Tuesday as doctors treated victims of a suspected chemical attack, destroying part of the building, an AFP correspondent said. The projectile hit the building in Khan Sheikhun, bringing down rubble on top of medics as they struggled to...

The implementation of a deal to evacuate four besieged Syrian towns has been delayed over opposition from residents and last-minute negotiations, activists said Tuesday. The evacuation of more than 30,000 people from the towns of Fuaa, Kafraya, Madaya and Zabadani, brokered by rebel...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel factions in southern Damscus suburbs of Yalda shut down the only crossing with the besieged Yarmouk Camp over security concerns, accusing  ISIS of targeting civilians.  Zaman's local reporter in southern Damascus said that the military factions in Yalda have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 100 civilians, including two children, were killed in a toxic gas attack by the Syrian regime early Tuesday that released "toxic gas" on a town in northwest Idlib province, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in the town of Khan...

By Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rregime supporters in coastal Latakia city have been dismayed by the terrible noise made by Russian planes while taking off and landing in Hmeimim airbase. Residents also complained that the fighter jets fly low over cities and towns and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopters dropped two containers of toxic gas on al-Hubait town in northern Idlib province, causing 20 breathing difficulties, local activists said Monday.   The regime warplanes have conducted at least 26 raids on al-Hubait and neighboring towns south of...

Syrian regime forces intensified their bombardment of opposition-held areas around Damascus on Monday and besieged city of Douma northeast of capital, the latest in the regime's push to erase battlefield advances made by insurgents in March. Airstrikes on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of...