Syria peace talks being hosted by the U.N. in Geneva have descended into bureaucratic wrangling since resuming this year, and even an optimist would struggle to conclude they are inching toward a settlement between the warring sides. But behind the scenes, the rumor mill has focused on one...

A U.S.-backed offensive to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from ISIS will last a number of months, the operation's commander said, a longer timeframe than previously signalled by the Kurdish YPG militia that is at the heart of the campaign. Rojda Felat spoke to Reuters near the Taqba Dam...

 The Russian-backed Syrian army has recaptured 16 villages lost to insurgents last week near the city of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. Syrian government forces have been counter-attacking in the area that is of critical importance to President Bashar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey has changed its borders with Syria in many sites in northern of the country, it is not clear if the act is only limited to some sites , or it is along the Turkish-Syrian borders. Hundreds of meters of Syrian land have been included in the Turkish territory by changing...

The U.S. State Department and the White House are sending contradictory messages on Syria and should start leading and not focus exclusively on fighting ISIS, Syrian opposition member Farah al-Atassi told reporters in Geneva on Thursday. Atassi, a member of the High Negotiations...

 ISIS claimed responsibility on Thursday for two suicide attacks that killed at least 31 people in Damascus on March 15. The group made the claim in its weekly online newspaper al-Nabaa. The newspaper said the two suicide bombers, identified by the group as Abu Musa al Golani and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes pounded rebel-held areas north of the city of Hama on Thursday in an escalation of airstrikes, a rebel official and activists said, as regime forces fought to reverse the rebels' biggest assault in months. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Orthopedic Doctor Ali Darwish, the latest health worker being killed in regime bombing on medical centers in rebel-held areas. Darwish died of his wounds after an attack by Chlorine-loaded barrel bombs on Latamna hospital in Hama province on Sunday. The attack come as...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday there was more discussion to be had on the way forward in Syria but that the status of President Bashar Assad would be decided by the Syrian people. Speaking in the Turkish capital Ankara after talks with Turkey's leaders, Tillerson also...

Syrian rebels have seized large areas from Islamic State in southern Syria in the last two weeks as the jihadist group prepares to defend its Raqqa stronghold in the north from a U.S.-backed assault, rebel commanders say. The advances by Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Thursday killed a mother and her four children in the western countryside of Raqqa city, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl.  The indiscriminate U.S. strikes have killed about 250 people in March, a scaring death toll as Washington put its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of engineers who formerly worked on the Euphrates Dam warned that the continued military operations in the areas surrounding the Dam close to al-Tabqa city is preventing technical crews from reaching the dam to fix the damages to avoid its collapse. The engineers...

The Syrian regime army captured the small town of Deir Hafer east of Aleppo from ISIS on Wednesday, a Syrian military source said, part of its operations to drive back the exremist group and consolidate its control in that area. It was the site of an important ISIS headquarters and contained...

The Syrian opposition and a senior Russian diplomat agreed on Wednesday that Syria's fragile ceasefire needed to be shored up amid growing violations in the multi-sided civil war. Preserving the cessation of hostilities in place between the Russian-backed Syrian government and rebels...

Turkey’s operation in northern Syria has been successfully concluded, a statement from National Security Council read on Wednesday. Operation Euphrates Shield, which was launched last August “has been concluded successfully”, according to the statement after a four-hour meeting chaired by...

Spillways at the Tabqa Euphrates dam are functioning normally after engineers carried out repairs, a media official with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia, which is trying to capture the dam from ISIS, said on Wednesday. ISIS warned on Sunday that the dam was at risk of...

ISIS shelled positions held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River Wednesday, forcing engineers to temporarily halt efforts to stop a potential collapse, a Reuters witness said. ISIS fired from the southern end of the dam, which it controls,...

A bomb attack on a bus in Syria's third city Homs killed five people and wounded at least seven Wednesday, state media reported. The blast hit a small bus carrying passengers in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, which has repeatedly been targeted in bombings. Most of the neighborhood's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people killed Wednesday in Russian airstrikes on Idlib province to increase the death toll to 50 in five days of airstrikes, volunteer rescuing group said. The Civil Defense group said the cluster bombs' victims were displaced people sheltering in  Deir Sharqi...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group launched a surprise attack overnight on Hezbollah bastions at Lebanese border, killing and wounding dozen, local reporter said Wednesday. The attack took place in the mountainous Flita area in the western Qalamoun region.  ...