(Zaman Al Wasl)- 15 regime soldiers were buried Friday in an official funeral in the coastal city of Tartus amid state of anger and resentment by the deaths families, activists said. Mustafa al-Banyasi, Tartus-based activist, said the families of slain soldiers have accused regime official of...

A U.S.- or Turkish-backed attack on Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa would be illegitimate unless coordinated with President Bashar al-Assad's government, the Syrian chief negotiator at peace talks in Geneva said on Friday. "Any military presence on our territory without the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State said it had foiled the U.S.-led coalition's air-drop onto the southern bank of the Euphrates west of Tabqa town last Tuesday, Amaq news agency said as Friday's strategic advance of the U.S.-backed forces refutes ISIS claims.   The Pentagon said on Wednesday...

The international coalition battling the Islamic State group will begin a final push on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa in the coming days, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday. But on the ground, the US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance spearheading the battle for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Huge explosion rocked the village of Qomhana in the central Hama province as rebels and regime forces engage in fierce clashes early Friday. Local activists said the powerful Islamist alliance of Haya't Tahrir al-Sham, led by former al-Qaeda group Fatha al-Sham, has carried...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Tribes Army has rebuffed regime claims that his alliance of tribes based at the border with Jordan and Iraq is an affiliate to Jordan's intelligence, saying the coordination with Amman is strategic in fighting ISIS. Sheikh Rakan Khudhair, who with several Free...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias are expected to attack soon an Islamic State-held dam and air base west of the Syrian city of Raqqa, their spokesman said on Thursday, part of an accelerating campaign to capture the hardline group's stronghold. The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior rebel commander who is attending the fifth round of Geneva peace talks said the Turkish-led Euphrates Shield Operation has been halted due to discords with Russia and U.S. over the Kurdish file. Colonel Ahmed Othman, commander of Sultan Murad Division said the Free...

Fighting around Syria's capital Damascus has cut 300,000 people off from humanitarian aid and pauses in the conflict are needed to let aid convoys in, Jan Egeland, U.N. humanitarian advisor on Syria, said on Thursday. "They are totally dependent on our supplies. Starvation will be just...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Top army leader in the paramilitary Fifth Corps group has been killed by the Islamic State in the ancient city of Palmyra on Wednesday, pro-regime media said. Major General Mohammed Hassan Sultan, who was born in Qerdaha, hometown of the Assad family, was the top...

The Syrian army and rebels, including jihadist groups, fought in the capital Damascus and north of Hama on Thursday after the insurgents' biggest offensive for months, underscoring the bleak prospects for peace talks which resume later in the day. The offensive seems unlikely to reverse 18...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Kurdish National Council responded to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said his country was discussing with Turkey the need to represent the Kurds in the Geneva negotiations. "Lavrov knows very well that the Kurds have been represented in the negotiations...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hama Governor on Wednesday has refuted pro-regime media reports over a massacre committed by rebels in the northern countryside of the central province. Mohaled Hazzouri told Damascus-based Sham FM radio that reports of killing 25 civilians by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the former...

Four people were killed and at least 20 injured in London on Wednesday after a car plowed into pedestrians and an attacker stabbed a policeman close to the British parliament in what police called a "marauding terrorist attack". The dead included the assailant and the policeman he stabbed,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Wednesday fired 17 Grad missiles on Russia-controlled Hameimim airbase and Qardaha , the heart-town of Bashar al-Assad in Latakia province, just a day since rebels have rocked meeting of military leaders in the regime biggest stronghold.   Pro-regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels pressed new advance into the strategic Hama military airport after surprise offensive launched on Tuesday allowed them to take remarkable territory in the northern countryside of the central province, activists said. Hama attack has accompanied with another major...

The U.S.-led coalition have air-dropped ground forces near the Islamic State-held town of Tabqa in northern Syria, opening a new front in the campaign to capture the jihadist group's nearby stronghold of Raqqa city. The Pentagon said on Wednesday the U.S. military had airlifted allied Syrian...

The U.S.-led coalition operating in Syria will investigate allegations of civilian casualties near the Syrian town of Raqqa, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. "Since we have conducted several strikes near Raqqa we will provide this information to our civilian casualty team for further...

Russia's force in Syria has suffered losses since late January more than three times higher than the official toll, according to evidence gathered by Reuters, a tally that shows the fight in Syria is tougher and more costly than the Kremlin has disclosed. Eighteen Russian citizens fighting...

The Syrian army is sending reinforcements to face a major rebel offensive in Hama province, a Syrian military source told Reuters Wednesday, as insurgents pressed an attack in a western area critically important to President Bashar Assad. The assault spearheaded by extremist fighters got...