U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov returned to Syria talks on Saturday, three weeks after the failure of their painstakingly drafted ceasefire that many saw as the last hope for peace this year. Kerry has pointedly avoided new bilateral negotiations...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fastaqim Kama Umirt, key Syrian resistance faction, said Saturday its artillery detachment had targeted stronghold for Iran and Hezbollah Shiite militia in Aleppo city, killing 6 Iranian officers. The Union released a statement that its security office managed to identify the...

(Zaman al-Wasl) On Friday evening, in a unique occurrence, a military security patrol caught a truck in Sahl al-Ghab filled with ammunition and machine guns on its way to the Syrian resistance factions which the regime describes as ‘terrorist’. Beit Yashut’s Facebook page conveyed the details...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zabadani's local council west of  Damascus, in statement, said the most recent batch of United Nations food rations delivered to residents remaining in the town contained rice “unsuitable for human or animal consumption.” The assistance was delivered on 25 September...

The Turkish army backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) began an attack on the ISIS-held village of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, an opposition commander involved in the campaign and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. However, Turkish military sources said the operation to...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Activists said death of Abu Ja'far al-Homsi was due to myocardial infarction and not being assassinated on Thursday in northern Idlib province. Ghaith Abu Ahmad, a member in the brigade's media office, told Zaman al-Wasl that the military commander of the Martyrs of Islam...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel group operating in central Hama province said Friday it had killed Russian and Iranian officers, according to statement posted online. Failaq al-Sham says the operation took three months of monitoring and tracking the Russian personnel in Hama city, assuring...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Muslims around the world celebrate the religious day of Ashura as a commemoration of the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ceremonies of this day are practiced in a bizarre and bloody way, in which men punish themselves and cause pain to themselves even...

Overwhelmed rescue workers combed rubble for victims of intense air strikes on Syria's battleground city Aleppo on Friday, ahead of fresh diplomatic efforts to end the country's intractable conflict. The United States and Russia, which support opposite sides in the five-year war, will meet...

A senior rebel commander said on Friday that Syrian government forces would never be able to capture Aleppo's opposition-held east, more than three weeks into a ferocious offensive, but a military source said the operation was going as planned. Russian air strikes were proving of little help...

Humanitarian aid for the Syrian province of Aleppo is currently stuck at the Turkish border, said a UN official on Friday. “Twenty UN humanitarian aid trucks have been stuck at the Turkish-Syrian border and aid supply cannot be reached to the east of Aleppo neither by air nor by land,” UN...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 600 Free Syrian Army fighters with their families, who left two western suburbs of Damascus on Thursday, have arrived to the northern Idlib province, almost a month since the regime army has waged major offensive on Qudsaya and al-Hamah, seeking to clear out all rebel pockets...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved a law ratifying Moscow's deal with Syria to deploy its forces in the country indefinitely, in a move seen as firming their long-term presence. The agreement - signed between Moscow and Damascus in August 2015 - allowed Russia to establish its...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting intense airstrikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo amid clashes between government forces and rebels. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday reported dozens of overnight airstrikes on eastern...

A total of 62 Daesh terrorist targets were destroyed in an operation carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces in northern Syria Thursday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, according to a Turkish military source.  In an emailed statement to Anadolu Agency, the source, who...

 A military victory in Aleppo would provide the Syrian army a springboard from which to liberate other areas of the country from "terrorists," President Bashar Assad said in an interview with a Russian media outlet. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda released Thursday, Assad said...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army's capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be "a very important springboard" to pushing "terrorists" back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 people, mostly FSA fighters, were killed after a car bomb exploded on Thursday near a checkpoint close to the Bab al-Salama crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in northern Aleppo province, Reuters and activists said. They said the blast took place near a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian army's defector Colonel Imad al-Karrad, the commander of Homs al-Waleed Brigade, was assassinated by two gunmen riding motorbike in the village of Tal-Shihab in southern Daraa province, sources said Thursday.  Al-Karrad was born in the Old City of Daraa, known...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s Security committee in northeastern Hasaka province agreed to provide PKK’s Syrian branch with 25 tonnes of ammunition and weapons as well with military night vision binoculars to monitor the Turkish border, activist said Thursday. Ahmed al-Ali who works for...