(Zaman Al Wasl)- Commander of regime's military campaign in Qaboun district of Damascus died of wounds sustained last week, activists said Wednesday. Brigadier General Bilal Mubarak was one of notorious regime army commanders who was born in Beit Yashoot, key militant stronghold in...

Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the ISIS-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said Wednesday, as government forces seek to win back the city from the group for the second time in a year. The army said Wednesday it had captured an area known as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD arrested several teachers as they and students protested the militia enforcing its education curriculum on their schools in Ghuayran neighborhood in al-Hasaka city on Tuesday. According to the activist Malaz al-Yusef, armed members of the Democratic Union...

Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations resolution that would have placed sanctions on Syria in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks. The measure, backed by the Western powers of Britain, France and the United States, would have imposed sanctions on 21 Syrians, organizations and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hama military airport in central Syria has turned into Iran's main cargo base where weapons and floods of Shiite militants have been pouring into the war-torn county in support of the Syrian regime and the Islamic Republic's agenda. Tens of the Iranians cargo planes have...

As the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) combs for landmines and booby-traps in recently recaptured Al-Bab, some local families who escaped Daesh’s grip have begun returning to their homes. FSA fighters are warning returnees to tread cautiously when reentering their homes due to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime bombardment killed three civilians, including White Helmets worker, in the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs city, local reporter said Tuesday. Regime forces have extended its aerial and ground campaign on al-Waer, killing more than 40 people in three...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regimen has freed Samar Koukash, a prominent relief worker and former actress, after four years in detention over charges of 'supporting terrorism'. The 45-year-old woman was arrested in 2013 when she went to streets opposing Bashar al-Assad's crackdown and daily...

Syrian regime forces and their allies from Lebanon's Hezbollah reached the outskirts of Palmyra in their push to drive ISIS militants from the ancient town, activists said Tuesday. The advancing forces reached the town's southwestern gateway, located about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from...

Turkey-backed forces will move towards the northern Syrian town of Manbij after completing their operation in al-Bab as originally planned, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. In a news conference in Ankara before embarking on an official visit to Pakistan, Erdogan also said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New American shipment of arms has arrived the province of Hasaka in order to be to be handed Syrian Democratic forces, the PYD-led militias that had announced the near arrival to Raqqa- Deir Ezzor route. Activist Mahmood al-Ahmed confirmed that a military convoy had Monday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Islamic State's militants were killed on Monday when a rival group opened fire on an ISIS-held territory in Yarmouk refugees camp south of Damascus, source said. The powerful Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the formerly known Nusra Front, hunted four ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Regime army and auxiliary forces have reached taken control of the town of Jab al-Khafi in Aleppo’s eastern countryside. The move brings them in direct contact with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Aleppo’s countryside. The regime takeover comes as part of a campaign...

In the days before the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Al-Bab fell, Umm Abdo's family sheltered underground both from the bombing and from jihadists themselves looking for somewhere to hide. In a narrow rubbish-strewn street lined with broken and blackened stalls, the 30-year-old mother...

The main opposition group at Syrian peace talks in Geneva plans to meet Russian envoys later Monday to discuss promises it says Moscow had not kept, a senior negotiator said. Russia has sought to revive diplomacy since its air force helped the Syrian army and allied militias defeat rebels in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime airstrikes on Monday have killed 19 people in Ariha, less than 48 hours since 15  people lost their lives in aerial bombing on the northern town of Idlib province, local activists said.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army killed 22 regime troops in the eastern countryside of Aleppo as Damascus launched major offensive to halt advances made by the Turkish-backed group, local reporter said Monday. Three more soldiers were taken captive by FSA as battles take place near al-Bab...

(The Guardian)- If they are lucky, Ahmad and his family in the Yarmouk refugee camp will have one meal today: two plates of rice cooked with undrinkable water. Others will have to do with less, perhaps a bowl of spiced water that doubles as a form of soup that will do nothing to ease the...

Reporting by Manar Abdulrazaq (Eqtsad)- regime allied militias had looted electricity cables in neighborhoods of the Western part of Aleppo, besides looting electricity generators of the Eastern part. Mahmood Abo al-Nour from the regime-loyal neighborhood of al-Zahra told Eqtsad that thugs...

The Syrian regime army and its allies made a sudden advance on Saturday and Sunday into areas held by Islamic State in northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as the jihadist group retreated after losing the city of al-Bab to Turkey-backed rebels. By taking Islamic State territory south of...