The top U.N. human rights official called Tuesday for the release of tens of thousands of detainees held in Syria's prisons and said that bringing perpetrators of crimes including torture to court was vital for reaching a lasting peace. "Today in a sense the entire country has become a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abdullah al-Hassan, 52, has lost his life fearing of losing everything he had, sons, properties and money, thanks to the Syrian Democratic Forces. Activist Mostafa Mohammed told Zaman al-Wasl the story of Abdullah al-Hasan who was one of rich men in his area in Raqqa...

The Syrian opposition will not attend peace talks due to start on Tuesday in the Kazakh capital Astana, blaming Russia's unwillingness to end air strikes against civilians in rebel-held areas and its failure to put pressure on the Syrian army to abide by a widely violated ceasefire. Osama...

By Ezzedin Zakkour ( Eqtsad )- Water crisis almost all over Syria is one of the main problems face people, amid continuous interruption and cut off over villages and towns of the countryside Idlib and Aleppo. Even the "humanitarian Electricity Line” was not able to sort out the problem, due...

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish forces have taken some towns near northern Syria's Manbij, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, marking their latest advance against ISIS militants south of Turkey's border. Erdogan made the comment in a speech broadcast live on television. The...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and missing in Syria's civil war. The war began six years ago on Wednesday with protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government. It has since dragged in...

Syria's future will be decided only after "getting rid of extremists" and achieving political reconciliation, the country's President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Monday. As the war that has ravaged his country approaches its seventh year, Assad told reporters it was "still...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian-brokered evacuation deal reached between rebels of al-Waer neighborhood, last stronghold in central Homs city, and with regime after years of bombing and severe siege, local reporter said Monday. Russia says about 1500 people, including 500 rebel fighters, to leave...

They Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, activists said. The advance was along a road that links the besieged districts of Barzeh, Qaboun and Tishrin...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched counterattack on regime forces in southern Daraa city, taking few blocks as clashes enter the second month to control strategic neighborhood in the Old City of Daraa. Rebels said in statement posted online they have killed several army troops and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people were killed in the ISIS-held city of Deir Ezzor when regime forces pounded al-Hamidiya neighborhood with surface-to-surface missile, local activist said Sunday. Ahmed Ramadhan, Deir Ezzor-based activist, said the missiles attack accompanied with regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Revolutionary Youth, a group subordinate to the Democratic Union Party, has attacked supporters of the Kurdish National Council during their events organized al-Qamishli city commemorating the events of 12 March 2004, first Kurdish uprising against the Syrian regime. An...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 19 people in Raqqa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday. The aerial bombing hit a school that turned into a displaced shelter for tens of families in al-Kesrat village south of the Islamic State's de facto...

(The Independent)- An anti-Isis civilian fighter is crowdfunding so he can return to Syria for the third time. Steven Kerr, 58, from Northamptonshire, who left his job as a warehouse manager to join Kurdish rebels on the front line, is hoping to go back to Raqqa, the jihadis’ stronghold in...

Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front on Sunday said in a statement it was behind twin bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in the center of Damascus that killed 74 people. "On Saturday... a twin attack was carried out by two heroes of Islam... in the center of the capital...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Syrian doctor and a father of 7 sons passed away in regime air strikes has been killed on Sunday in regime airstrikes on southern Daraa city, medics said. The aerial attack on the neighborhood of al-Manshiya targeted a crew of medics were treating wounded...

(Eqtsad)- Heavy rainfall over Syria recently has saved the rain-fed agriculture season in te country from drought, however, the season this year is still weak and not as productive as former years according to farmers of Homs and Hama. Many farmers talked to Eqtsad explaining that recent...

The death toll from a double bomb attack targeting Shiites visiting a pilgrimage site in Damascus has climbed to 74, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday. Most of the dead in Saturday's attack were Iraqi Shiites who were going to visit a cemetery near the Old City...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYd militia has arrested 25 Arab tribesmen in the northeastern village of Dhaileh in Hasaka province to join the fight against the Islamic State, activists said Saturday. Source revealed that the Arab fighters were given Kurdish names to avoid ISIS reprisal....

By Ethar Abuhaq (Zaman al-Wasl) In recent years, Zaman al-Wasl has been a source for researchers and writers publishing books and studies about Syrian politics and Jihadism in Syria. Zaman al-Wasl not only provides accurate news from inside Syria but serves as a resource for writers,...