Sixteen lawyers were among the dozens killed in a suicide attack that struck the main judicial building in the capital Damascus, the head of Syria's Bar Association said Thursday. Meanwhile, blood stains and damage from the attack a day earlier were swiftly removed as people returned to...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two moderate rebel groups took four hilltops from the Islamic State in the eastern Qalamoun region in the Syrian desert, rebel commander said Thursday. Younes Salama, press officer of Jaish Asoud al-Sharqiya, said his rebel group backed by Ahmed al-Abdo forces had...

When the dialysis center in the Syrian rebel town of Douma ran out of supplies last month, three people died. "Soon after, a convoy with 250 dialysis sessions arrived, so the rest made it," said Abou Bassel, a surgeon in the local hospital. "The same thing happened last year."...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The 5th Corps- Storm troopers announced the launched of the Baath Legion “which includes thousands of fighters” on Tuesday evening. The Corps did not announce the Legion’s exact location or given an accurate number of members. From the images circulated in the pro-regime...

The U.S. military has drawn up early plans that would deploy up to 1,000 more troops into northern Syria in the coming weeks, expanding the American presence in the country ahead of the offensive on the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, according to U.S. defense officials familiar with...

Children have suffered the most in Syria's six-year war, and among them the most vulnerable are those separated from their families, a senior Unicef official told Reuters Wednesday. Furthemore, as well as the large number of direct casualties from warfare, many more children have died or...

Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens more in Damascus on Wednesday, state media reported, in the second such spate of bombings in the Syrian capital in five days. The first suicide bomber targeted the Palace of Justice, the main courthouse in central Damascus...

A suicide bomber attacked a courthouse in the center of the Syrian capital Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding others, state media reported. "The preliminary toll in the terrorist suicide bombing at the old palace of justice building is 30 dead and a number of wounded," state...

Syrian government negotiator Bashar al Ja'afari said Wednesday his delegation had not discussed a constitutional commission for the war-torn state during the latest round of Syria peace talks in Astana. Speaking in the Kazakh capital, Ja'afari said the only document the Syrian government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Army of Tribes has come to light again at the sixth anniversary of the Syria revolution as part of the meeting included many figures in Turkey this week to discuss activating it. The Spokesman of the Higher Council of Syrian Tribes, Modar al-Asaad has told Zaman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 civilians have been killed in Russian airstrikes targeted the northern city of Idlib early Wednesday, local media center said. Five children were among the casualties, according to Idlib Media Center. Meanwhile, the rescuing Civil Defense workers are still looking...

In its Sixth Anniversary: The Revolution Without Aleppo (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians this week are celebrating the sixth anniversary of the start of the revolution for freedom and dignity with the painful loss of Aleppo city. The city was distinguished by the celebratory carnivals its activists...

More than 800 health workers have died in "acts of war crimes" in Syria since 2011, in hospital bombings, shootings, torture and executions perpetrated mainly by government-backed forces, researchers said Wednesday. The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, have turned the violent...

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said Syria's rebel delegation was expected in Astana Wednesday night for peace talks which are taking place this week to end the six year civil war. A spokesman for the ministry said the rebels would come for consultations with Russia, Turkey and Iran. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior commander in the military council of al-Bab city said the opposition fighters who are part of the Turkish-led Euphrates Shield Operations would head to Raqqa to fight the Islamic State forces as they close to finishing their military operations in Aleppo. Abu...

Civilians from Syria’s northern city of Aleppo have called for bringing Bashar al-Assad to justice for using chemical weapons against opponents in the war-torn country. Last month, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Assad regime had carried out "coordinated chemical...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 81 regime officers and soldiers from Latakia province have been killed in the last two weeks, local activist said. The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Syrian...

Water has reached a pumping station inside Aleppo and will "soon" go out to residential districts in the city, Syrian state media said on Tuesday. Aleppo's main water supply has been cut off for nearly two months, and residents have largely relied on ground wells or water bought from...

 A third round of Russian-backed talks on the Syrian war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana Tuesday without armed rebel groups, leaving little hope for a breakthrough in ending the six-year conflict. The talks, sponsored by government allies Russia and Iran and rebel-backer Turkey,...

Syria's air force deliberately bombed water sources in December, a war crime that cut off water for 5.5 million people in and around the capital Damascus, the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Tuesday. The commission said it had found no evidence of...