(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Political Office of Thuwar al-Raqqa Front Mahmoud al-Hadi said Wednesday the tribesmen group will lead the battle against ISIS to expel it from the center of the province which ISIS controls since January 2014. Al-Hadi clarified in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl...

ISIS attacked the Syrian army near the city of Palmyra Thursday, killing dozens of soldiers and advancing to within 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) of the city, an activist group said. The Syrian army, backed by Russian jets, recaptured Palmyra, the site of a Roman-era city and spectacular ruins,...

The Syrian army's advance in Aleppo slowed on Thursday but a victory was still firmly in sight after President Bashar Assad vowed that retaking the nation's second city would change the course of the six-year civil war in his favor. Lightning gains in recent days in which government forces...

Reporting by Faris al-Refai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated a tragic story a Syrian paramedic who had been shocked to find his three children among the aerial bombing casualties after being transferred to the hospital of Maer Tmasrin in northern Idlib province on Tuesday.  The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters launched major attack on regime forces and allied National Defense militia in a gas-rich territory east of Homs province, activists said Thursday. The hard-line group clashed with regime forces near al-Shaer and al-Muhr districts where the Syria's main strategic...

(Sky News)- Syria's Bashar al Assad has rejected pleas from rebel fighters in Aleppo for a truce. The president said victory in the battle-ravaged city would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's five-year civil war. He was speaking after a fierce three-week offensive in which...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad said that the Syrian media is corrupted and needs to be cleaned during his talk to al-Watan newspaper owned by his cousin Rami Makhlouf. The talk is to be published on Thursday. Bashar al-Assad’s statement in relation to the media comes after a long series of...

Nearly 150 civilians, most disabled or in need of medical care, were evacuated overnight from a hospital in Aleppo's Old City, the first major evacuation from the eastern sector, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. "These patients and civilians had been trapped in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 61 civilians killed on Wednesday in eastern Aleppo as regime backed by Russia and Shiite militias pressed rapid advances and massive exodus from the battleground neighborhoods, Civil Defense said. The tragic death toll come amid call by the rebels of besieged...

More Syrians have fled eastern Aleppo, with reports of about 800 arriving in the past 24 hours at a disused cotton factory in the Jibreen district of west Aleppo and 1,260 in Hanano district, retaken by government forces, a U.N. official said on Wednesday. Bus loads of civilians continue to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Six people who work at the Rmeilan Oil fields in northeastern Hasaka province were killed in a roadside bomb hit their vehicle near al-Qahraniya town, regime-run news agecny said Thursday. The IED attack targeted a vehicle affiliated to al-Rmeilan Oil Field Directorate...

Syrian rebels in besieged eastern Aleppo called for an immediate five-day cease-fire and negotiations about the future of the city, and for medical and civilian evacuations, in a humanitarian plan published Wednesday. A "humanitarian initiative" document signed in the name of the Aleppo...

 Syrian rebels in besieged eastern Aleppo called for an immediate five-day ceasefire, negotiations about the future of the city and for medical and civilian evacuations, in a humanitarian plan published on Wednesday. A Turkey-based rebel official told Reuters the plan had been sent to...

Syrian regime forces control all of Aleppo's historic Old City after rebel fighters withdrew in the face of army advances overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The army and allied forces hold more than 75 percent of east Aleppo, a rebel bastion since 2012,...

At least 80,000 people have fled east Aleppo since the Syrian army began an operation in mid-November to recapture the rebel-held sector of the second city, activists said Tuesday. The figure includes those who sought refuge in the government-held west of the city and the Kurdish-controlled...

  The Syrian regime accused Israel of attacking near Damascus for the second time in a week, raising frictions between enemies who have labored to keep spillover from the war in Syria from entangling them in their own, separate conflict. Israel fired surface-to-surface missiles at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 33 civilians have been killed on Tuesday in air strikes hit the northern province of Idlib as regime and powerful ally Russia wage brutal aerial bombing that killed about 100 people in three days, local activists said. A regime strike hit a marketplace in the village...

Syria's army and allies closed in on areas near Aleppo's Old City on Tuesday, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of the five-year civil war by driving rebels out of their last urban stronghold. Rebels said on Tuesday they would never abandon Aleppo, after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Armed groups of the Democratic union Party (PYD) has Tuesday launched a new campaign of arrest against young men for conscription and fighting by the side of the party in Shadadi town in Southern countryside of Hasaka, while masked people burned the office of Kurdish National...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy movement of Iranian aircraft between Iran and Syria as the number of Iranian flights has more than doubled in the last two weeks, sources reported.  Sources reported to Zaman l-Wasl correspondent inside Syria on condition of anonymity that Damascus airport has...