(Zaman al-Wasl)- Thuwar al-Atarib Group said unknown armed group had kidnapped Syrian army defector Major Anas Ibrahim Abu Zaid on Thursday near al-Atarib city in western Aleppo countryside. Media professional Yousef Obaid in the group told Zaman al-Wasl they accuse Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to be...

Forty-four ISIS militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes Monday, the Turkish military said Tuesday. One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded during work to clear landmines and explosives in the area,...

U.N.-brokered Syria peace talks restart in Geneva Thursday after a 10-month hiatus that has seen the opposition weakened and political upheaval in the foreign powers shaping the conflict. Since April 2016, when rival delegations were last in the Swiss city, government forces have...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- 170 rebel fighters on Monday have evacuated the mountainous town of Sargaya at the Lebanese border to northern Idlib province due to a Russian-brokered deal with the Syrian regime, activists said. The regime prepared several buses to transport around 170 fighters with their...

Four Russian military personnel were killed and two injured when their vehicle was targeted with explosives in central Syria last week, a defence ministry statement quoted by Russian agencies said Monday. "Four Russian servicemen died when their car exploded on a radio-controlled IED on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven people, including two children and two women, have been killed in regime airstrikes on Barzeh, northeastern suburb of Damascus, local activists said Monday. The northeastern neighborhoods of Damascus have endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syria Democratic Forces backed by US airstrikes on Monday took 5 villages from the Islamic State northeast Raqqa city, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major IS-held cities in the country and closing in on the extremists’ de facto capital. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State affiliate took three village from rebels in the southern province of Daraa on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and rebels, sources said. Jaish Khaled Ibn al-Walid, an Islamist alliance pledged allegiance to ISIS two year ago, has captured...

One in four Canadians say Ottawa should have adopted a temporary halt on Syrian refugees in response to the United States' controversial travel ban, though the majority supported the government's current immigration plan, an Angus Reid Institute poll showed on Monday. Sixty percent of those...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Ammar Saati, senior aide of Bashar al-Assad and the close friend of his brother Maher , is the founder of al-Ba'ath Brigades, key unit in the Fifth legion, paramilitary group affiliated to the regime army. Alwyat al-Ba'ath militia was formed in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and allied militias blocked the entry of a UN-aid convoy delivering food rations and medicine to the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs city, residents said Sunday. Abu Faisal, one of 60,000 people live in al-Waer, told Zaman al-Wasl that the regime...

Syrian regime forces fired rockets at a rebel-held area on Damascus's outskirts on Sunday, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said. The medical worker and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the biggest...

Syrian rebel groups who have participated in peace talks said on Sunday that an upsurge in Syrian army shelling and bombing was wrecking the prospects of maintaining a Russian-Turkish-brokered ceasefire. The rebel groups, mostly backed by Turkey, who attended two rounds of talks in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of people have fled al-Qaboun neighborhood, northeast Damascus on Sunday as aerial and ground bombardment killed and wounded dozens of civilians in the past three days, local activists said Sunday. 17 people, including two women were killed on Saturday in al-Qaboun...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 ISIS militants were killed in northern Syria in the last 24 hours by Turkish forces and the U.S.-led coalition, according to a Turkish General Staff statement Sunday. Turkish army forces killed at least 12 ISIS fighters as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates...

The Syrian opposition is fully committed to peace talks in Geneva on Feb. 23, a senior official said on Sunday, adding the talks would need to pave the way for a political transition. "We are fully committed for the Geneva talks," Syrian National Coalition President Anas al-Abdah told...

US-backed fighters captured a village in northern Syria on Saturday from members of the militant Islamic State group, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major IS-held cities in the country and closing in on the extremists’ de facto capital. The push came as Turkish Prime...

(Daily Mail)- The Russian Defence Ministry has published a video showing a building being bombed after saying it had struck an Islamic State base in Syria.  The ministry said in a statement that the Tupolev-95 bombers had taken off from Russia and flown over Iran and Iraq to get to...

(Middle East Eye)- Two Syrian children who have become powerful symbols of their homeland's conflict met on Saturday, vowing that "the war will not stop us" in spite of the horrific violence around them. Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed - whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of...

Turkey has presented two proposals to the United States for how to carry out a joint military operation to drive Islamic State from its stronghold in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Saturday. Ankara has said repeatedly that the planned operation should be...