(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Sunday appointed new emir, or commander,  in territory it controls in the southern suburbs of Damascus, dismissing Abu Hashem al-Khabouri, sources said. The new Emir, Abu Ziad Saad, 40-year-old,  who was born in Yalda suburb, was the radical...

(Financial Times)- In the murky world of Syria’s war economy, Isis has been one of the main drivers of human trafficking during nearly six years of civil war. First, it was the biggest buyer. Now, its fighters are a top commodity. Isis militants have become one of the most lucrative...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions, in statement posted online, said the nationwide ceasefire is 'void and null' as regime forces and allied Hezbollah militia extended their ground and aerial campaign on Wadi Barada valley, northwest the capital. The 9-day-old ceasefire agreement that...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with French media to be aired on Monday that his forces are on the road to victory after recapturing the key city of Aleppo last month. "We do not consider that (retaking Aleppo from the rebels) as a victory because victory will be when...

A car bomb exploded Sunday in a government-held area outside the Syrian capital, killing at least five people and wounding 15, state media said. The car bomb was detonated outside Sasa, southwest of Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-run monitoring...

Airstrikes resumed Sunday in a rebel-held valley near Damascus containing the Syrian capital's main water supply, a day after insurgents and the government failed to agree a plan to repair the springs knocked out of service two weeks ago. The government and allied fighters from the...

(Eqtsad)- Medication is one of the most important difficulties people in al-Waer, last opposition-controlled neighborhood in Homs city, as the Syrian regime prevents the entry of all medications and other basic materials. Dr. Mohammed Moharem said the regime has completely prevented...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- PYD’s militants launched new conscription campaign in northeastern Hasaka province, conducting patrols on civil houses and arresting dozens of young men, activists said Sunday. Activit Malaz al-Yusuf reported that militias of “Military Discipline Units” of Democratic Union...

In Southern Damascus, either die of poverty, hunger, of join Islamic State (Eqtsad)- People of capital's southern suburbs have bee endured to severe living condition amid soar of prices and lack of job opportunities. Residents said most goods and basic staples are available but most people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS launched Saturday major attack on U.S.-backed militias north of its stronghold of Raqqa province, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the western countryside, local activists said. Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military police clashed with residents of al-Da'tour neighborhood in coastal Latakia city who refuse to join the army and its backed militias, eye-witnesses said. The poor neighborhood that inhabits by the Murshidis sect, a tiny minority diverted from the Bashar...

The Syrian regime on Saturday decided a plan of works to restore services, industry and security to the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo, state media reported. Aleppo, split into a government-held west and rebel-held east since the early days of the almost six-year Syrian conflict, became...

A large explosion in the busy center of the rebel-held town of Azaz near border with Turkey killed around 50 people and wounded dozens on Saturday, local reporter, and activists said. At least 50 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the blast in front of a courthouse in the northern town...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime launched this week a wide arrest campaign including the civil employees in the northeastern province of Hasaka, local activists said.  The regime campaign came as the Democratic Union Party threatened to destroy any militia that is not subordinate to it....

A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached between rebels and government forces in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus, where bombardments have knocked out the capital's main water source. The government and allied fighters from the Lebanese group...

A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus where government forces and their allies are fighting rebels. Munir Sayal, head of the political wing of the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group, told Reuters the report...

The U.S.-based coalition has killed a senior ISIS facilitator in an airstrike in the extremists' self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, the U.S. military command in the region said Friday. CENTCOM identified the target as Mahmud al-Isawi, an ISIS operative who managed instructions and...

U.S.-backed militias in Syria have captured an ancient citadel from Islamic State in a strategically significant advance against the jihadist group in its stronghold of Raqqa province, a spokesman said on Friday. The Jabar citadel on the banks of Lake Assad was captured by the Syrian...

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has said two mediators were involved in the case of the ISIS-abducted Lebanese soldiers, one of whom is in Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. Ibrahim revealed in remarks to Al-Joumhouria newspaper Friday that the first negotiator was in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists said displaced people living in coastal city of Jableh have been suffering sectarian abuses since at least 27 people were killed in a car blast on Thursday. Residents of the Alawite-sect-dominated city have accused the displaced, who fled conflict areas to the...