(Zaman Al Wasl)- Monday's death toll of Syria's regime offensive on eastern Aleppo topped 100 amid initial reports of collective field executions for entire families. Such a savage killing comes as pro-regime areas celebrate Aleppo victory when about 80,000 people have been blockaded in a...

At least 21 civilians including five children were killed Monday in airstrikes targeting ISIS's Syrian de facto capital of Raqqa, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was not able to determine who carried out the raids, but the city has been targeted regularly by aircraft...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 55 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in new chemical attack by Syrian forces on Aqarbat town in Hama province, monitor and residents said. Local council in Aqarbat said the regime warplanes have targeted the town and surrounding villages...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said Monday that defeat in Aleppo would not weaken the resolve of opponents of Bashar Assad to remove him from power. "If Assad and his allies think that a military advance in certain quarters of Aleppo will signify that...

Syrian rebels on Monday withdrew from six more neighbourhoods in their one-time bastion of east Aleppo in the face of advancing government troops, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The battle of Aleppo has reached its end. It is just a matter of a small period of time, no more,...

The Syrian regime army and its allies are in the "final stages" of recapturing Aleppo after a sudden advance that has pushed rebels to the brink of collapse in a shrinking enclave, a Syrian general said on Monday. A Reuters journalist in the government-held zone said the bombardment of rebel...

At least 31 people were killed and dozens injured in fresh airstrikes on opposition-held areas in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official. Regime and Russian warplanes carried out several raids on opposition-held neighborhoods in...

The Syrian regime army and its allies captured Sheikh Saeed district in Aleppo in overnight fighting, a war monitor and a Syrian official said early on Monday, amid the most intense bombardment in days, leaving insurgents in only a tiny pocket of the city. Sheikh Saeed lies in the south...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian NGOs announced the birth of Syrian Civil Society Platform aiming at enhancing freedom, justice, equality, tolerance and pluralism. The platform which was founded in Istanbul in Turkey consists of 11 local platforms in 11 Syrian provinces; 3 in neighboring countries...

Syrian rebels have received a U.S.-backed proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians under safe passage guaranteed by Russia, rebel officials said as government forces closed in on Sunday, but Moscow denied a deal had been reached. If the proposal were to be taken up by all sides, it...

All children in Syria's battered Aleppo are suffering from trauma after enduring some of the worst violence in their country's war, the UN children's agency said on Sunday. "All children in Aleppo are suffering. All are traumatised," Radoslaw Rzehak, UNICEF's field office head in Aleppo,...

The Syrian army and its allies made new gains in Aleppo on Sunday, forcing rebels back into an ever shrinking pocket crammed with civilians, but lost control of the desert city of Palmyra to a swift Islamic State attack. Final victory in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the civil war,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians, including two children and Civil Defense worker, killed on Sunday in regime missile attack hit the city of Douma, northeastern Damascus, local monitor group said. The unified Media office in Eastern Ghouta suburbs said the the regime uses surface-to-surface...

The Syrian regime army and its allies advanced on Sunday in southeast Aleppo and a rebel official said insurgents face "death or surrender" in an ever smaller enclave, with large numbers of civilians under very fierce bombardment. Russian and U.S. officials are meeting in Geneva on Sunday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The Russian and regime warplanes on Sunday extended its aerial bombing on the rebel-held province of Idlib, killing five people in the town of Maaret al-Nu’man and wounding several others in the southern countryside. Idlib Media Center explained that the warplanes launched...

 ISIS fighters have captured Palmyra castle overlooking the ancient city in eastern Syria, a news agency affiliated to the militants said Sunday. Heavy Russian airstrikes had pushed back the militants from inside the city hours after they captured it last Saturday in a surprise...

When President Bashar al-Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The expected fall of Aleppo would mean...

Russian air strikes forced Islamic State fighters to retreat to the outskirts of Palmyra on Sunday, a day after they had stormed the ancient city in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The militants were now fighting in orchards on the fringe of Palmyra, the British-based Syrian Observatory...

Fierce fighting and heavy bombardment saw more than 10,000 people flee rebel-held areas of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo since midnight, activists said Sunday. "More than 10,000 people have fled remaining rebel-held southeastern districts of Aleppo city since midnight due to heavy...

Islamic State militants on Saturday captured most of Palmyra after breaking through regime army defenses and securing the heights around the ancient city in eastern Syria following a surprise assault, a monitoring group and rebels said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...