(Zaman al-Wasl) Bashar al-Assad appointed Major General Jaiz Swadet al-Hamoud al-Musa as governor of al-Hasakah province on Sunday. Al-Musa succeeds Mohamad Za’aal al-Ali as province governor raising many questions about why this extremely loyal and only recently retired officer was appointed...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- One person has been killed and scores injured in aerial bombing Monday on Idlib province whereas a member of Ahrar al-Shaam movement was killed and scores injured by a car bomb targeted a checkpoint for the movement south of Idlib, activists said. The activists reported that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fourteen members of the same family were killed in a regime air strike on eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Assad army pursued its Russian-backed campaign to capture opposition-held areas of the city. A list of the dead published by the Civil...

Dozens of civilians were killed as air strikes flattened residential buildings in rebel-held east Aleppo Monday, despite Western warnings of sanctions against Syria and Russia over attacks on the city. Once Syria's thriving commercial hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by bombing raids and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said more than 24 Russian warplanes, Sukhoi-24 and Sukhoi-34, have arrived the coastal Hmeymim airbase, as Moscow plans to step up its aerial campaign against the Syrian people. Sources detailed that warplanes are arriving consecutively as 4 planes each...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, in a video statement, demanded all the military factions to solve rifts and to form one military command able to defeat the Syrian regime and allied militias. The statement has also demanded to the factions to people's rights, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 100 bodies for slain regime soldiers have been received by Tartus military hospital during the past two weeks, most of them were killed in battlefields of Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Latakia and Deir Ez-zor, sources said. Most of the bodies are still in mortuaries,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is planning to evacuate the town of Deir-Khobiya in the countryside of Damascus and displace its people as part of the demographic changes planned around Damascus city, after finishing the compulsory displacement from the capital suburbs of Qudsaya, Daraya...

A suicide bomber believed to be from the Islamic State militant group killed three people and injured at least 20 others in an attack on Sunday on an outpost manned by a Syrian rebel group at a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Jordan, a rebel official said. The attack targeted the...

(Zaman Al Wasl) -At least 41 civilians have been killed on Sunday in regime air strikes on the battleground Aleppo city, a monitor group and local reporter said. The regime warplanes carried out four airstrikes on the neighborhoods of Qaterji, Sukkari and Bab al-Naser as well as other areas in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New campaign of arresting young men for mandatory conscription in the coastal city of Jableh,, included residents and displaced people, to take them to fight at fronts.  Admin of the facebook page “Syria Here from Jableh al-Adhamiya” confirmed that the regime’s military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Only few hours after the beginning of the battle of “Ashura” in the countryside of Latakia, that needed lot of preparation and planning, it stopped for unknown and unjustified reason.  It took rebels 3 months of preparation and planning to get ready for the battle...

(Independent)- Isis has lost control of the symbolically important town of Dabiq to a group of Syrian rebels following a short battle. Syrian opposition fighters backed by Turkey said they took the town after meeting with "minimal" resistance from the jihadists. According to Isis...

Syrian rebels said they captured the village of Dabiq from Islamic State on Sunday, forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West. The rebels, backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes, also took neighboring Soran, said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army on Sunday captured the northeastern Aleppo town of Dabiq from the Islamic State, monitor and local reporter said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said FSA fighters "captured Dabiq after ISIS members withdrew from the area". Zaman...

(AMN)- The Syrian  Army launched a powerful assault in the northern countryside of Hama on Sunday, targeting the jihadist-held town of Ma'ardes after capturing Al-Abbadah yesterday. Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army stormed the eastern gates of Ma'ardes, where they were...

Angela Merkel wants to get other European Union member countries to agree to step up sanctions against Russia because of its role in the war in Syria, a German newspaper cited sources close to the German chancellor as saying. The issue of sanctions is due to be discussed at an EU summit on...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels began an attack on Islamic State's symbolically potent stronghold of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, a rebel commander said, taking territory that has all but cut it off according to a war monitor. Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed 11 civilians in air strikes hit the town of Termanin in northern Idlib province, local activists said Saturday. The strikes have also targeted the city of Idlib and towns of al-Tamana'a, Khan Sheikhoun and Maaret al-Numan. In Homs province,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians have been killed and 16 more wounded in regime air strikes on the besieged northern countryside of Homs city, local reporter said Saturday. The regime fighter jets conducted 8 raids on the towns of Talbiseh, al-Ghanto, Um Sharshouh and al-Farhaniya. The...