At least nine people were killed on Saturday when government forces launched a barrage of rockets that hit a funeral on the edges of the Syrian capital, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "seven rockets and several shells hit areas on the edges of Qabun", a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 civilians, including two women, were killed in the eastern neighborhoods of Damascus when the regime army rocked a funeral in al-Qaboun with surface-to-surface missiles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The Britain-based monitoring group said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 41 regime army troops, including 11 officers, have been buried in the coastal city of Tartus who had been killed in the past two weeks, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 2 general brigadiers, 2 lieutenant colonels and 8 lieutenants, mostly were...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five people, including four family members, were killed in Daraa province when regime warplanes hit the eastern and western countryside, activists said Saturday. Father, mother and two sons have lost their lives in the village of Om al-Mayathen as regime and Russia...

Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes in a besieged rebel-held district of Homs Saturday that killed at least two people, adding to a death toll of more than 20 in nearly two weeks of air raids, activists said. Al-Waer, the last rebel-held neighborhood in the western city of Homs, had...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The task command of Russia's Hemeimem military air base said Saturday the Russian fighter jets had targeted the southern province of Daraa with 340 raids in the past 5 days. In a statement posted on the base official Facebook page, Russia said “our bombers carried out...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- National Movement for al-Jazira Sons said that United States admitted using 5000 depleted Uranium in Deir ez-Zor and Hasaka which might explain the notable increase of congenital disorders during the past years. Dr. Nidal al-Barhou, member of the movement, expressed worry...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish charity organization, IHH, received a ten-year-old Syrian child Abdulbasit Satouf on Friday, a day after deadly airstrikes on northern Idlib province killed his mother and sister and left his two legs cut. The distressing footage of Abdulbasit released...

Two Syrian rescue workers said Friday they plan to travel to next week's Oscar ceremony, where their documentary "White Helmets" is nominated for an award, after weeks of uncertainty caused by U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban. Raed Saleh, the leader of the White Helmets, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians have been killed on Friday in US-led airstrikes on the northern countryside of Raqqa city, The local monitor that tracks war in ISIS-held areas said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently campaign said the aerial bombing targeted Mazraet Tishreen north...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has extended its aerial campaign on southern Daraa province as an alliance of 35 rebel and Islamist factions fight to take the biggest district in Daraa city from army and its allied militias, activists said Friday. The regime warplanes carried out at least 11...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Airstrikes on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city have renewed on Friday, killing two people, including a child, and wounded several more, activists said. 25 civilians, including at least 7 children and a woman, have been killed and 130 people have been wounded by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and her daughter have been wounded on Thursday as pro-regime militias step up artillery shelling on the mountains areas of Latakia province, activists said.   The shelling targeted villages of al-Najiya, Bdama, al-Kinda and Mara'nd in Jabal al-Turkman and Jabal...

 With its show of military force, Russia changed the tide of the Syrian civil war. It is finding the next phase -- brokering an end to the fighting -- a tougher proposition. A round of Syria peace talks sponsored by Russia ended on Thursday with no joint communique, usually the minimum...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A distressing footage of ten-year-old Syrian boy lost his two legs in regime airstrikes on Idlib province has gone viral on social media, sparking widespread anger and sorrow. The footage, released by activists on Thursday, showed the aftermath of regime air strikes...

(BBC)- Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, is the first known British woman to travel to Syria to fight the so-called Islamic State. The 27-year-old, who is on the front line near Raqqa, has been in the country for 11 months. The BBC spoke to her about why she decided to take up arms....

(Sky News)- Sky News has discovered more evidence of horrendous abuses in Syria's prisons, this time involving women and children. Tens of thousands of people have disappeared into jails operated by the Assad regime during the country's uprising and civil war. Last week Amnesty...

   An ISIS-linked group has killed scores of moderate and Islamist rebels who were taken captive during the clashes, a rebel official and the SITE Intelligence Group said Thursday. An offshoot of the Jund al-Aqsa group killed roughly 150-200 members of rebel factions and of another...

The head of Syria's government delegation at peace talks in Astana accused Turkey's delegation and Syrian rebels, who arrived on Thursday - the last day of the meeting, of trying to disrupt the negotiations by refusing to agree to a communique. Bashar Ja'afari said the rebels and their...

The sculpted mud domes of the villages southeast of Aleppo are collapsing from war damage and neglect after years on the front line between Syria's army and Islamic State militants, their inhabitants long since gone. But in Aleppo's Jibreen shelter, home to refugees who have been unable or...