(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted major attack carried out by regime forces in the western countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. The regime army backed by Shiite militias launched an offensive to take villages of Jabal Shwaihna, Jabal Maara and Rashdin al-Shamaliya west...

Syrian army units were clearing land mines and explosives left behind by ISIS militants in the historic town of Palmyra Friday, a day after government troops and allied militiamen recaptured it from the extremists, a Syrian security official said. The military expects the process to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Peshmerga killed and injured several fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while defending a Peshmerga location from the PKK forces’ attack at the Syrian-Iraqi border region on Friday, commander said. Lieutenant Saadoun Sino said the PKK fighters fled...

A major battle to liberate ISIS' stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria is looming, with U.S. officials looking to build on momentum from victories on the battlefields of Mosul in Iraq. The Pentagon has drawn up a secret plan to do that, likely leaning on local allies with stepped-up American...

The lead Syrian opposition negotiator at peace talks in Geneva said he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would correct the "catastrophic" errors of his predecessor Barack Obama to become a reliable partner against "devilish" Iran. The U.N.-led negotiations edged forwards on Wednesday, for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 58 army troops, including 17 officers, from the coastal city of Tartus were killed in February, pro-regime news feeds said. The death toll included 4 general brigadiers, colonel, 2 lieutenant colonels and 11 lieutenants. Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful...

(Daily Mail)- Al-Qaeda has confirmed their second-in-command Abu Khayr al-Masri was killed by a US drone strike.  The attack in Idlib, north west Syria last week, is believed to have been carried out using a new type of munition using a far lower explosive yield to reduce civilian...

Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Ja'afari accused the Saudi-backed opposition on Thursday of holding peace talks hostage because of their reported refusal to unify under one opposition delegation and include terrorism on agenda. "We heard that... the Riyadh platform refused the...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the Syrian city of Palmyra has been fully recaptured from ISIS militants, the RIA news agency reported, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The Syrian army retook the ancient town, which has fallen to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 fighters from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces killed by ISIS in the eastern countryside of Raqqa city, the group's news agency said Thursday. The US-backed SDF continues to push to gain ground in eastern al-Raqqah. As part of its efforts in the Wrath of the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army took two village  from the powerful Kurdish YPG militia in the eastern countryside of Aleppo as hundreds of families flee ISIS-held areas, local reporter said. The FSA fighters captured villages of Tel Tourin and Qara near...

Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes in Homs and in the western Qalamoun region on Thursday, a military media unit run by the regime's ally Hezbollah reported. The eight airstrikes in the rebel-held al-Waer in Homs killed seven people and caused injuries, it said. Although Homs, an...

Turkey Thursday threatened to strike Syrian Kurdish militia forces if they don't withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of ISIS extremists that has been taken over by predominantly-Kurdish forces. "We will strike the YPG if they do not retreat," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told...

ISIS fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, activists said Thursday, but government forces paused before entering its ravaged ancient ruins because of mines. Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into a western neighborhood of the city late Wednesday...

A Hellfire missile fired by a CIA drone killed al-Qaeda leader Abu al-Khayr al-Masri late on Sunday while he was riding in a car near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, a U.S. intelligence official said on Wednesday. The 59-year-old al-Masri, whose real name was Abdullah Muhammed Rajab...

(Zaman Al Wasl- SNHR)- At least 413 people, including 54 children, 35 women, and 131 rebel fighters, have been killed during the last week, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in detailed report . The Network has documented 55 major violations fro ceasefire deal by the warring parties in...

Syria's main opposition group will not allow terrorism to be added to the agenda of sputtering UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva, its delegation head said Wednesday. "We will not deal with it, and if (UN mediator Staffan de Mistura) adds it in any time we will not deal with it or discuss...

Syrian government aircraft deliberately bombed and strafed a humanitarian convoy, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations, U.N. investigators said on Wednesday in a report identifying war crimes committed by both sides in Syria's war. Syrian and Russian forces conducted...

Russian warplanes bombed US-backed fighters in several small villages in northern Syria after they mistakenly thought Islamic State forces were in the area, a top US general said Wednesday. On Tuesday, "we had some Russian aircraft and regime aircraft bomb some villages that I believe they...

All Syrian sides that fought in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes and the deal to evacuate civilians following the rebel defeat was a "crime of forced displacement', a U.N. probe said Wednesday. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) for Syria documented violations including...