Fifty-six ISIS militants were killed by Turkey-backed forces around the Syrian town of al-Bab and by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in the latest operations Wednesday, the Turkish military said Thursday. Turkish artillery fire also hit 104 ISIS targets, including buildings and bombed...

Syria's main opposition delegation on Wednesday asked for direct discussions with government representatives at the Geneva IV peace talks aimed at ending the six-year conflict by reaching a political solution. "We want direct talks, direct negotiation. It is enough for Syrian people. l hope...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syria democratic Forces took new array of villages from ISIS in the northern countryside of Raqqa on Thursday, pressing rapid advances the will encircle the group’s de facto capital in very few days. The Kurdish-led SDF seized control of  15  villages...

The Syrian regime army and its allies took a small district on the outskirts of Aleppo from rebels on Wednesday, a war monitor and a military media unit run by Damascus ally Hezbollah said. The advance was the army's first from its lines in Aleppo city since rebels departed their enclave there...

 The UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday he was "not expecting a breakthrough" at peace talks this week but voiced hope that rival sides could build "momentum" towards a deal. "Am I expecting a breakthrough? No, I am not expecting a breakthrough," de Mistura told reporters...

A Syrian asylum seeker went on trial in Austria on Wednesday accused of killing 20 government soldiers fighting for President Bashar Assad near the city of Homs, a court spokesman said. Austria has jailed several people for "belonging to a terrorist organisation", a charge usually levelled...

Russia is open for dialogue with the United States on safe zones in Syria but believes that any such initiative needs to be coordinated with the Syrian government, Moscow's top diplomat said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he had briefly discussed the issue with U.S. Secretary...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Syrian journalists have been wounded in a suspected Russian airstrike hit the northern countryside of Hama province on Wednesday, Local Coordination Committees said. The wounded journalists are Seif Abdullah, the local reporter of Orient news channel, Mohamed al-Huwaish,...

Turkey said Wednesday fewer than 100 ISIS extremists were still holed up in a flashpoint Syrian town which has seen the bloodiest clashes of Ankara's half-year campaign inside the conflict-torn country. Speaking to NTV television, Defense Minister Fikri Isik said half of the town of Al-Bab...

Rival Syrian camps were due in Geneva Wednesday for U.N.-brokered talks to end the six-year conflict with persistent violence and deadlock over the country's political future dampening hopes of a breakthrough. President Bashar Assad's negotiators and opposition delegations were expected to...

A fresh round of Syrian peace talks is set to begin in Geneva on Thursday. And while the U.N-sponsored talks may represent the best opportunity in years to make progress toward an end to the conflict, the burning question for many Syria observers is whether justice will be sacrificed in the...

An Israeli military plane carried out an airstrike on the Syrian regime forces stationed in the western countryside of Damascus near the Lebanese border. According to a military source, the attack targeted the Jerd Nalhleh area of the Qalamoun Mountains. Information about casualties is being...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Syrian regime militia looted a UN aid convoy delivering food rations and medicine to the besieged neighborhood of al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city, local activists said Tuesday. The 22 lorries were carrying food, medical supplies and winter clothes for almost 60,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least ten civilians have been killed in regime airstrikes on the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, activists said Tuesday. Ahmed Ramadan, activist for Euphrates Post campaign, said 30 more people have been wounded in the aerial attack on a bus station in the...

A new report by a Syria conflict monitoring group accuses the government of depopulating Sunni-majority areas in Syria's third largest city as it fights to consolidate its power. The report released Tuesday by the Washington-based Syria Institute raises ethical questions about what role, if...

(Middle East Eye)- Syria faces public health catastrophes that will linger for decades due to toxic rubble dust, oil fire pollution and the US-led coalition's use of depleted uranium weapons on Islamic State targets, campaigners have warned. The US last week admitted it had fired...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition warplanes killed 8 civilians from the same family in airstrikes hit an ISIS-held village near Raqqa city, local monitoring group said Tuesday. The Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently campaign said the US strikes targeted al-Sahhamiya village killing a whole...

CIA-coordinated military aid for rebels in northwest Syria has been frozen since they came under major Islamist attack last month, rebel sources said, raising doubts about foreign support key to their war against President Bashar Assad. Rebel officials said that no official explanation had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians on Monday were killed in the ISIS-held city of al-Bab as Turkey and US-led coalition stepped up its aerial campaign in support of Free Syrian Army fighters who press to take the strategic stronghold, local reporter said. The Turkish-led Operation Euphrates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish fighters backed by US airstrikes on Monday seized control of an oil field and 8 villages from the Islamic State in Deir Ezzor and Raqqa provinces, activists said Tuesday. Ahmed al-Ali, Hasaka-based activist, said SDF took al-Jweif oil well from ISIS in...