(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters on Sunday have thwarted regime offensive to break a siege imposed on the strategic Tayfour military airport in Syria desert, sources said. ISIS forces detonated an armored vehicle packed with explosives in the environs of al-Tiya’as after regime forces...

 Jordan's King Abdullah on Sunday swore in a new government following a reshuffle but retained Hani Mulki as prime minister, state television reported on Sunday. The second reshuffle since Mulki was appointed last May was intended to give him more scope for economic reforms and to tackle...

The Syrian regime army and allied militia clashed with rebels in Wadi Barada near Damascus on Sunday, threatening to disrupt planned repair works to a pumping station that supplies most of the capital's water, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and the...

(Eqtsad)- The Syrian winter has increased displaced suffering in southern Daraa province who live in makeshift camp, amid blatant ignorance by opposition parties and humanitarian relief organizations, activists said Activist Qusay Horani said the regime blockade has isolated displaced from...

The Syrian political opposition said Saturday it supports planned peace talks sponsored by Russia and Turkey in the Kazakh capital later this month. "Concerning the forthcoming meeting in Astana, the (High Negotiations) Committee stresses its support to the military delegation ... and...

Airstrikes on a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria killed nine people on Saturday, pro-opposition activists said, the latest to hit the area where Al-Qaeda's former affiliate has a strong presence. Most of those killed in the Idlib province town of Maarat Masrin were civilians, the...

 Islamic State militants launched their biggest attack in months on regime-held areas of the city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, killing dozens of civilians and regime troops, a war monitor said. At least six large explosions rocked the city since dawn as the militants clashed with the army...

As part of the ongoing Turkey-led operations in northern Syria, 228 Daesh targets were destroyed and 18 terrorists were neutralized on Saturday, according to the Turkish army. The Turkish-led Operation Euphrates Shield, which began in late August, aims to improve security, support coalition...

Maintenance workers arrived in Syria's rebel-held Wadi Barada near Damascus Friday to fix the water facility there, signaling an end to the violent standoff that has dried out the capital for weeks and threatened a fragile cease-fire, activists and the government said. For days, negotiations...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Key Syrian rebel groups on Friday have intensified their discussions in Turkish capital over participation in Syria's peace talks that would be held in the Kazakh capital of Astana on Jan. 23, amid reports of Turkish pressure on rebels to lessen demands, commanders and...

International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, according to a document seen by Reuters. A joint inquiry for the United Nations and global watchdog the...

(Eqtsad)- All the medical and health facilities in the ISIS-held town of al-Shajara in the southern Daraa province have been closed, including the woman and delivery hospital, besides the field hospitals as well as many medical centers, due to fund shortage and the rebel-imposed siege on drugs...

Engineers have entered a damaged rebel-held water pumping station and supplies will soon be restored to the Syrian capital, the governor of Damascus Countryside Province said on state television on Friday. The engineers had entered the facilities at Ain al-Fija in the Wadi Barada area by...

The convoy of vehicles was driving on a dirt road in northwestern Syria when the aerial attack by the U.S.-led coalition struck, turning the vehicles into balls of fire and the people inside into unrecognizable charred corpses. Among the eight dead was Khattab al-Qahtani, a senior...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed opposition has submitted a draft of four points to Turkey before attending the planned Astana talks on Jan.23, demanding an immediate halt to the regime’s attacks on civilians and to stop committing ceasefire violations in the Wadi Barada region west of capital...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Israeli warplanes late on Thursday have conducted 8 airstrikes on Damascus' Mezzeh military airport , destroying ammunition depots, activists said. Israel has used its F-35 fighters jets for the first time in hitting Syrian targets. Conflicting reports said Israel...

A powerful blast caused by a suicide bomber hit a heavily policed district of the capital on Thursday with at least seven killed, a police source told state television. The source was quoted by state television as saying a suicide bomber blew himself in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman has been killed in regime aerial bombing on the northern countryside of Hama province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce , activists said Thursday. The strikes targeted the town of Alltamneh and the villages of al-Zallaqiyat, Qastal and Rasm al-Abed, residents...

A leading Syrian opposition figure on Wednesday called on the UN to stop the Assad regime from committing ceasefire and human rights violations in the Wadi Barada region west of capital Damascus. Riyad Hijab, chief coordinator for Syria’s opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), sent a...

Syria's cessation of hostilities is largely holding but there are some exceptions and humanitarian aid is still not getting in to besieged areas where food is running out, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. He told reporters that 23 buses and Syrian drivers, used in recent...