(Zaman al-Wasl) Hamdi Daham al-Jarba, the co-governor of the self-administrated Kurdish al-Jazira canton, directed a speech to the head of the Bashar al-Assad regime to deny the Kurdish administration’s intention to secede, and considering the invitation to bring down the regime an invitation to...

Russian warplanes and their Syrian government allies battered rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo on Saturday, and rebels and aid workers accused them of destroying one of the city's main hospitals and killing at least two patients. M10, the city's main trauma hospital, in eastern Aleppo,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out at least 7 raid on the Western Ghouta suburbs early Sunday, using Phosphor bombs, local media group said. Three people were killed and 20 more people wounded in al-Wadi and Deir Khabiya when regime warplanes hit the towns with 30 barrel...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish self Administration has forced teaching in Syriac language as well as Kurdish an Arabic, for grades 1-3 in schools of Hasaka under the Kurdish administration control, amid fear of people for not recognising the teaching their children received in areas out of the...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Clashes between Islamic State forces and People’s Protection Units, the military arm of the Democratic Union Party, took place in al-Shaddadah city in the southern countryside of al-Hasakeh.  Ahmad al-Ali, an activist, said that limited clashes took place between the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Saturday have escalated their offensive on the western suburbs of the capital, saying it wants to clear rebel pockets in area close to predominantly Alawite district, activist said. The clashes took place in Qudsaya and al-Hama town , 7 km (5...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's air strikes in bolstering Bashar al-Assad's regime have killed at least 350  civilians in the northern countryside of Homs province since September 30, 2015, local activists and medics said. The 500 strikes have killed 150 children and 100 women in Russian...

The largest field hospital in opposition-held Aleppo city was destroyed Saturday by barrel bomb attacks carried out by Syrian regime forces, according to local civil defense sources.  A regime helicopter dropped barrel bombs on the hospital in al-Sakhour district, leaving it along with...

(Zaman al-Wasl) News is circulating that Russia is sending more fighter jets and rocket launchers to Hmemim airbase to use them in bombing Syrians in a continuation of its assault started exactly one year ago.  Reporting from as source within the Russian Ministry of Defense, Izvestia...

Russian war planes struck rebel held areas north of Aleppo on Saturday as the army shelled the besieged old quarter in a major offensive, rebels and a monitoring group said. The air strikes focused on major supply lines into rebel-held areas - the Castello Road and Malah district - while...

(Zaman al-Wasl) On Friday night, the Syrian resistance bombed regime held locations close to al-Jib al-Ahmar and Beit Abu Resheh in al-Akrad Mountain in Latakia countryside with BM-21 rockets and mortar rockets killing an officer and wounding several members of the regime army.  The...

(Zaman al-Wasl) After the failure of the Kerry-Lavrov special agreement to stop the fighting in Syria, Russia Today channel and other Russian media outlets recently started speaking about the possibility of Moscow using a limited nuclear strike in a bid to explore the potential extent of its...

As Syrian regime forces advanced in Aleppo, backed by a deadly Russian air campaign, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) decried the "bloodbath," saying the battleground city's eastern rebel-held portion had become "a giant kill box". Syria's army was advancing on two Aleppo fronts, as talks...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a meeting last week with a small number of Syrian civilians and others, said he had lost an argument within the Obama administration to back up diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria with the threat of using military force, the New York Times...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday announced he is setting up a board of inquiry to investigate the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria last week that killed 18 people. The internal UN panel "will ascertain the facts of the incident" on September 19 and report to Ban, who will "decide...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called for an immediate end to the Syrian regime’s heavy bombardment in Aleppo, which has killed at least 500 people in the past two weeks. “MSF demands that the Syrian and allied governments stop the bombing that is causing a bloodbath among civilians,” the...

A one-month-old baby was rescued from the ruins of a building destroyed by Russian and regime airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib on Friday, according to local civil defense sources.  The five-story building was completely leveled on Friday morning after Russian and regime...

Reporting by Ammar Bakkour (Zaman Al Wasl)-People in rebel-held areas sleep and wake up on the sounds of air strikes by the Syrian and Russian. Even they many times sleep and do not know if the light would come out and they still alive, Yusuf Khoja, a tailor for Aleppo described his daily...

A child was killed and at least 10 other people were injured on Friday by Syrian regime attacks in the country’s northwestern Latakia province, local Turkmen sources told Anadolu Agency. The Turkmen Mountain and Jabal al-Akrad areas plus rural parts of Idlib province were hit said the...

Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to further ramp up its campaign of air strikes, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as Moscow defied global censure over an escalation that Western countries say has torpedoed diplomacy. In a statement issued by the White House after the two...