(Zaman Al Wasl)-Syrian regime's ruling party, Al Ba'ath, has graduated of the first batch of the women's Battalion in Hasaka province, activists said. "Khansawat of Syria” to operate in regime-controlled areas of the countryside of Qamishli city. Activist Abdullah al-Qamishlawi reported...

 The Syrian opposition rejects terrorism and is "fed up" with banned militants but they cannot be stopped if Syria continues evicting populations of besieged areas, opposition negotiator Basma Kodmani said on Sunday. Syria's government has always cited the fight against terrorism to...

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they had taken full control of a former regime army airport near the city of Tabqa along the Euphrates River. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior domestic opposition figure said Sunday the delegates in Geneva delivered a draft on the Transitional Governing Authority and its powers to the U.N. Syria envoy. Hassan Abdel Azim, the head of National Coordination Body for Democratic Change affirmed the readiness to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 militants from Ba'ath Battalions have been killed by rebels in central Hama province in the past two days, pro-regime news feeds said. The paramilitary group that formed by regime suffers lack of training and war experience since most of the members are university...

ISIS has warned that the Tabqa dam, which a U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militia is trying to capture from the militant group, is at imminent risk of collapse because of airstrikes and increased water levels. It also said in messages carried on its social media channels that the dam's...

A Kurdish and Arab Syrian militia backed by the United States has captured the town of Karama as it prepares for an assault on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa that it expects to take place in early April, it said on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has trapped Raqqa in a shrinking...

A leading Syrian opposition group is calling on the U.S.-led coalition to stop targeting residential areas in and around Raqqa, ISIS's de facto capital. The Syrian National Coalition says it is "increasingly concerned" about civilian casualties in the campaign against the extremist group....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A doctor and wounded man were killed Saturday when regime warplanes dropped a chlorine-loaded barrel bomb on Latamaneh hospital in central Hama province, activists and local monitor said. "The hospital is out of service now," Hama Health Directorate said in statement due...

A medical relief advocacy groups says over 100 hospitals in Syria were hit by Syrian or Russian airstrikes last year, urging the "fortification" of medical facilities such as by adding reinforced concrete or blast-resistant windows. In a 90-page report released Saturday, the International...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has prevented medication supplies to the National Hospital of Hasaka after controlling it by the Democratic Union Party which invested it to obtain money from patients for the service it provided to them. Sources close to Hasaka Governor, Jayez al-Moosa reported...

At least 17 civilians including women and children were killed Saturday in a Syrian regime airstrike east of the capital Damascus, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official. The source, who wished to remain anonymous due to security concerns, said the attack, which targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including 5 family members, were killed Saturday in renewed airstrikes on the town of Khan Sheikhoun to increase the death toll to 24 in a day of bombing on Idlib province. Rescuing Civil Defense group said 5 family members, including two children, and three...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three civilians have been killed in car bomb attack rocked the town of Azaz at the Turkish border, local reporter said Saturday. The car was parked near the main bus station of the strategic town in the northern countryside of Aleppo province. Ten more people were...

 Regime counters resistance and tighten noose on civilians in Hama (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has pumped the water of Rastan Dam into the Orontes River in the northern countryside of Homs city, to increase the water level of the river, such a step may cut off the supply route f...

Syria's army and its allies retook a village near Hama Saturday, a Syrian military source said, as the government tries to turn back a major insurgent offensive, but bitter fighting continued, a war activist said. President Bashar Assad and his allies, Russia, Iran and Shi'ite fighters from...

At least 16 people died after a Friday night air strike on a prison in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province including both prisoners and staff, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Saturday. Idlib is one of the most important strongholds of rebels,...

U.S.-backed local forces fighting Islamic State in Syria on Friday reached one side of the Tabqa dam, one of the top prizes in their campaign to drive the jihadist group from Raqqa city, local campaign officials said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Negotiating Committee in the besieged neighborhood of Al-Wa'ar, in Homs city, issued a brief statement on Friday announcing the postponement of the second evacuation, which was scheduled on Saturday afternoon due to fierce fighting in Hama countryside between the Syrian...

Syrian rivals will tackle all agenda items at peace talks this week, including political transition, the United Nations mediator Staffan de Mistura said Friday, warning not to expect "miracles." The fifth round of stalled U.N.-backed negotiations have started in Geneva, with a mandate to...