Thousands of traumatized Syrians left the rebel enclave of Aleppo Monday as the UN voted to deploy observers there and said it planned new peace talks in Geneva in February. "It is the intention of the United Nations to convene those negotiations in Geneva on 8 February 2017," UN envoy...

Several villages held by Islamic State have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organisation that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign...

Reporting by Abdul Karim Ayoub (Eqtsad)- Losing gas-rich territory to ISIS favor last week along with the historic city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs province has made the pro-regime areas unable to carry new economic burdens due to the hike in fuel and gas prices....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A state of resentment prevailed among the population following sudden increase of fuel prices due to extreme shortage of fuel in the markets in conjunction with a wave of cold and snow hitting the areas of Hasaka province. Activist Malaz al-Yousef said that the shortage of...

Some 20,000 people have been evacuated from Syria's east Aleppo so far and efforts continue to bring more people out, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. Cavusoglu had said earlier on Monday that 12,000 people had been evacuated. Dozens of buses carrying thousands...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source said regime's conscription department issued new reservist list for 300,000 people wanted for immediate recruitment in the regime forces. The newly-formed Faylaq al-Khames, or the Fifth Legion, has been Bashar al-Assad's new reservists...

Bana Alabed, the seven-year-old girl who has been tweeting about life amid the devastation of eastern Aleppo, has been safely evacuated from the city. President of the Syrian American Medical Society Ahmad Tarakji tweeted a picture of Bana, showing her safe and well. The tweet...

More than 1,000 people left the rebel enclave of Aleppo on Monday, raising hope for many others still stranded, as Russia eased its objections to sending UN observers to oversee the evacuations. A convoy of around 20 buses crossed the front line in the early morning headed for...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday 10 buses had left the besieged Shiite Muslim villages of al-Foua and Kefraya near Idlib carrying evacuees through rebel-held territory towards Aleppo. The evacuation of wounded and other civilians from the...

The evacuations expected Sunday of fighters and civilians from east Aleppo and two Shiite villages under rebel siege in northwestern Syria have been postponed until further notice, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the move was decided after gunmen attacked buses...

   Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said. Some buses, as well as Red Crescent vehicles, reached...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ghadir, a young girl from the Damascus northeastern suburb of Douma, had had her right leg amputated by regime’s shelling, in the same time she lost her mother and three brothers. Moreover, after having a prostheses fixed, she was injured by cluster bombs hit Douma. Ghadir...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took Saturday 10 villages and farms from ISIS near al-Tabaqa in Raqqa province, The U.S.-backed group said in statement . SDF that led by Democratic Union Party (PYD) siad it had captured villages of Bur Sinjar Shamali, Bur Sinjar...

A number of Islamist rebel groups in the Syrian town of Termanin, northern Idlib province, announced a new merger to unify rebel factions on Saturday. In a brief statement seen by The New Arab, the town’s rebel groups said: “we the military factions in the city of Termanin announce our unity...

A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria's east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two villages besieged by insurgents. A Syrian rebel official and a government...

At least 38 ISIS fighters have been killed in U.S.-led coalition air strikes this week near Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said on Saturday. The militants retook Palmyra in central Syria on December 11, just eight months after the army backed by Russia drove them out. On...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 army officers from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed since the beginning of December in Palmyra and Aleppo battlefields, source in the military police told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 9 senior officers as many fellows still missing, source...

(New York Times)- For months, the bodies have been piling up in eastern Aleppo as the buildings have come down, pulverized by Syrian and Russian jets, burying residents who could not flee in avalanches of bricks and mortar. And now it is almost over, not because diplomats reached a deal in...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asked Syria's warring parties to quickly agree on a plan to evacuate people from east Aleppo and provide "solid" safety guarantees of Saturday, a day after the evacuation stalled Friday. "We're ready to resume facilitating the evacuation...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian social media accounts circulated images of an identity card for displaced persons who have guarantors from the town of Jarjanaz in Idlib countryside. The identity card, which came into use based on the cooperation of the town Local Council and the Free Jarjanaz Police...