Syrian opposition forces have captured the village of Manyan near the entrance of the New Aleppo district of the besieged city of Aleppo, opposition sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday. The move comes as part of a military operation launched last Friday by opposition factions...

Reporting by Ahmed Primo ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Poweful Fateh al-Sham front vowed to break siege of  the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, and to continue its fighting against the regime forces and allied militias, saying the ongoing battle is the most crucial one in northern Syria,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS explosive device killed and wound number of Kurdish PYD militia in Hasaka province on Sunday, activist told Zaman al-Wasl as an Iraqi child girl lost her life in al-Houl refugees camp due to lack of medical care. Activists Mahmoud al-Ahmed said the explosive device hit...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces have recaptured ground lost to regime army and allied militias early Sunday in the battleground city of Aleppo, local reporter said. The Jaish al-Fateh-led forces have opened a new front in the city as fighting spread on the third day of a major...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26  resistance fighters were killed late on Sunday in a regime army ambush near Dael town in the southern  province of Daraa, activists said. The resistance forces launched early Sunday a surprise attack on regime army near Dael town, killing and...

Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other using poison gas. The rebels, including both Free Syrian Army factions...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt that regime forces imposed a security cordon around Tartus central prison on Sunday afternoon following some of the political prisoners carrying out an insurrection. The political prisoners managed to gain control of the entire prison after breaking down room...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo’s activists mourn the death of Ahmad Sindet the military leader of Jaish al-Islam in northern Syria following his killing by a thermobaric missile launched by the Russian warplanes. Sindet was in the village of Minyan that borders New Aleppo neighborhood after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State forces have shuffled the cards once more by withdrawing from significant positions in Aleppo’s countryside, namely the infantry school, Tel Shaeir, and the al-Maslimyet cement factory on Saturday evening.  The withdrawal happened quietly and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance announced on Sunday that it began targeting regime and pro-regime militia positions in the 3000 apartment project in the strategic al-Hamadaniya neighborhood with artillery and missiles. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo said that the Syrian resistance...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite the absence of accurate statistics about the number of regime force members from the coastal province who were killed in the first two days of the Great Epic Battle for Aleppo, but the death toll reaches into the tens. Among those killed are high ranked officers, regime...

(Eqtsad)- Saeed was unaware of the fate that awaited him when he, like hundreds of other fighters, boarded a bus headed to northern Syria.  The journey from the city of al-Muadamiyat al-Sham to Sarmin city took 24 hours. It exhausted Saeed a resident of Daraya who took his wife and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The artillery of Syrian resistance factions has pounded a regime military complex on Saturday in the second day of major offensive to break Aleppo siege. Jaish al-Fateh, an alliance of rebels and Islamist groups, has been pressing to seize a strategic supply route links...

President Vladimir Putin rejected a request from the Russian military to resume airstrikes against militants in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the Kremlin said. Putin “considers it possible” to continue a humanitarian pause on operations in Aleppo despite a request from the general staff to resume...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance factions on Saturday took new ground from regime army west of the battleground city of Aleppo, marking the second day of a large-scale attack to break siege on opposition-held neighborhoods, commander said. Abu Yousef al-Muhajer, the military spokesman of...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting airstrikes and fighting on the edge of the contested northern city of Aleppo. Saturday's fighting comes a day after Syrian rebels launched a broad offensive aiming to break a weeks-long government siege on the eastern rebel-held neighborhoods of...

(Eqtsad)- Abu Omar, a resident in Douma city who was awarded grant of small projects, comes every morning with his son Omar to irrigate his land which he planted with eggplants, corn, marrow and other summer crops which are considered one of the most prominent food items for populations in...

(The Guardian)- The UN has hired scores of friends and political associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, as part of its relief operation in the country, according to documents leaked to the Guardian. The staff lists show that relatives of high-ranking ministers have been on the...

Syrian rebels launched a major assault Friday aimed at breaking a months-long siege of opposition-held districts of Aleppo, as regime ally Russia held off on renewed air strikes. The European Union said late Friday its top diplomat Federica Mogherini was heading to Iran and Saudi Arabia for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions have killed several regime soldiers and allied militias near the newly regime-captured town of  Soran in Hama province after a counter-attack targeted village of Maan and other areas in the western countryside. Jaish al-Ezzah Faction has...