(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia allowed dozens of families to return back to their homes in al-Arbeyn village in al-Hasaka province after two years of displacement where each family paid 50,000 Syrian Pounds, local activists said. A local activist, who spoke on condition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians, including 4 children,  have been killed in Russian air strikes hit the western countryside f Aleppo province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce, local reporter said Thursday. The Russian warplanes hit an apartment complex in Babka town...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces have encircled around 45  ISIS-held villages northwest of the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, local activists said Wednesday. Backed by the the U.S.-led airstrikes, the SDF alliance took villages of Karmanji and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Wednesday hit vehicles carrying fighters of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham in in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing 11 people, field sources said. The third attack in a week on the formerly known as Nusra Front has left two senior...

A Syrian provincial governor said on Wednesday the government and rebels had agreed on a plan to repair damage to a spring in the Wadi Barada area that supplies water to the capital, state television reported. The report could not be immediately confirmed with rebel fighters. The local media...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed source said the head of air intelligence Jamil al-Hassan was behind the damage of the capital’s main water supply two weeks ago. The de facto first commander in Syria who controls the aerial bombing campaign had ordered regime warplanes to conduct...

Government aircraft pounded rebels and their extremist allies in northern Syria overnight, activists said Wednesday, as Moscow announced new peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan on Jan. 23. Air raids targeted the rebel strongholds of Atarib and Khan al-Assal in Aleppo province, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The aerial bombing on the besieged northern countryside of Homs province killed 338 people in 2016, Civil Defense said Tuesday. The rescuing group that operates in rebel-held areas said the regime warplanes backed by key ally Russia had conducted 895 raids in 2016, leaving 71...

(Memri)- On January 8, 2017, the media office of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Al-Khayr province, Syria, released a video showing children beheading and shooting men accused of spying for the Kurds. The video, titled "He Revived Me With His Blood," was posted on the ISIS-affiliated leading jihadi...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said in new report the Syrian regime helicopters had dropped 12,958 barrel bombs in 2016 on rebel-held areas throughout Syria. Most of these barrel bombs were dropped in Damascus suburbs, followed by Aleppo and then Hama, Idlib, Daraa, and Homs....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS on Tuesday has recaptured an ancient citadel from U.S.-backed militias in its stronghold of Raqqa province, after five days since it had been seized by the Kurdish-led alliance, activists and the Islamic State accounts said. The Jabar citadel on the banks of Lake...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its political arm the PYD will not be invited to planned peace talks in Kazakhstan, a PYD official said on Tuesday, an outcome that would leave a key player in the conflict off the negotiating table. Syria's government and rebel forces started a ceasefire...

 More than 20 civilians were killed in a B-52 strike carried out by the US on the northern Idlib province in Syria on January 3, according to Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. Gerasimov slammed the Western coalition in Syria for failing to achieve “any meaningful...

One night this past fall, a U.S. radar plane flying a routine pattern over Syria picked up a signal from an incoming Russian fighter jet. The American crew radioed repeated warnings on a frequency universally used for distress signals. The Russian pilot didn’t respond. Instead, as the U.S....

ISIS has blown up a natural gas plant that supplied one-third of Syria's electricity, one month after getting its hands on the facility, pro-opposition activists said Monday. "In the past 48 hours, IS (ISIS) blew up the Hayyan gas plant in eastern Homs province, putting it totally out of...

(Eqtsad)- The suffering of al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs city has mounted due to lack of food and severe siege imposed by the Syrian regime for over four months. The regime has cut off all means of livelihood available to the people of al-Waer, and all food products including bread...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of ISIS-held Yarmouk valley in southern Daraa province called on moderate rebels to end their suffering by lifting siege imposed by rebel factions, according to plea seen by Zaman al-Wasl.  People reported that bread has not been let in the area for more...

US special forces have led a "successful" operation targeting Islamic State leaders in Syria, the Pentagon has confirmed. Local reports suggest at least four coalition helicopters landed in the desert between the IS-held cities of Deir al Zor and Raqqa. Commandos then set up checkpoints and...

Bashar al-Assad said his government is ready to negotiate on "everything" in proposed peace talks in Kazakhstan but it was not yet clear who would represent the opposition and no date had been set. Assad also said a ceasefire brokered by Turkey and Russia, his most powerful ally, was being...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said his government is ready to negotiate on "everything" in proposed peace talks in Kazakhstan but said it was not yet clear who would represent the opposition and no date had been set. Assad also said a ceasefire brokered by Turkey and Russia, his most...