Reporting by Okab Malek (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Russia has fortified Shuairat military airport in central Homs province with more shields and checkpoints as well has installed surveillance cameras. Russia forces who celebrate first Syria’s intervention anniversary, have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists are circulating images and information revealing the identity of the person whom the German journalist Jurgen Todenhofer presented as “a leader in al-Nusra.” Activists confirm that the person who Todenhofer introduced as Abu al-Ezz is actually one of the biggest...

Over the past 48 hours, armed opposition groups have captured a number of villages and strategic checkpoints in Syria’s western Hama province, an opposition source said Friday. Abu Majid, an opposition commander, told Anadolu Agency that the Free Syrian Army and the Jaish al-Fatah militant...

Syrian regime forces and rebels waged fierce battles north of Aleppo on Friday, a week into a Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian army to take the entire city. Syrian government forces made a significant advance on Thursday north of Aleppo, capturing the Handarat refugee camp, a few...

An offensive to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State using Kurdish militia fighters would trigger an ethnic conflict there, a senior Turkish official said and warned that the operation should avoid triggering further divisions. The official said Syrian Kurdish YPG has so far...

(Daily Sabah)- Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday Turkey would cooperate with Russia "if Russia is sincere in cooperating to establish a permanent cease-fire and transporting humanitarian aid to Syria." Çavuşoğlu's comments were made in Ankara during a joint press meeting with...

Syrian fighter jets killed 20 people and injured 24 more with vacuum bombs dropped in the northwestern city of Idlib and surrounding districts late on Thursday. A civil defense official in Idlib, Leys el-Faris, told Anadolu Agency that Syrian jets killed seven people in the city, eight in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops backed by Lebanese and Palestinian militants on Thursday took control of Handarat Camp district in time rebels made gains against  the Islamic State in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, local reporter said/ The regime forces have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed Thursday six civilians in the town Khan Shikhoun in Idlib province, Civil Defense said The rescuing group told Zaman al-Wasl that 6 civilians, including 3 children, were killed and dozens wounded due to cluster-bomb raids, targeted the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish media outlets have brought to attention what they are calling the “security wall” that will separate Turkey and Syria. The wall extends for almost 900 kilometers along the border and it is a little under 3 meters high with an expected completion date of a few months....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime loyalists talk about a fierce attack of the Syrian army and supporting militias in the countryside of Hama, however, the armed opposition has kept advancing and liberating more area of the countryside. The armed opposition has since the beginning of this...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite all evidence that disclaim it and confirm it to be a failed act, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chose to quote the German journalist Yorgen Tundhover interview with a person who claimed to be al-Nusra Front leader (so called by the acclaimed leader and the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have killed 11 regime troops and 3 Hezbollah militants in the ongoing clashes in the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area in Latakia province, commander said Thursday. Clashes have renewed between regime forces and rebels near Kensabba town since Monday morning...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A U.S. -led coalition airstrike against the Islamic State on Wednesday destroyed al-al-Asharah bridge extending over the Euphrates River in Deir Ez Zor’s eastern countryside which is the last functional bridge to pass between the two sides of the river in the entire...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Wednesday have taken new village in the northeastern countryside of Hama province after heavy clashes with regime forces and militias, activists said. Al-Jnaina village was the fifth village fell to rebels favor in two days. On Tuesday rebels seized control...

Reporting by Ammmar al-Khasawneh  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leadership of 18-March Division has confirmed the death of its ground commander Hosam Abazid Wednesday afternoon as a result of severe head injury, while another commander Thabit Masalmeh had head injury and he is now in critical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian and Assad’s warplanes have continued hitting the eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo, concentrating on vital buildings like hospitals and bakeries, intending to kill as much as possible. Hospital and bakery in the neighbourhood of al-Maadi were targeted according to...

A Russian airstrike on northern Syria’s Aleppo city on Tuesday has killed the mother and twin sister of six-year old child Sabah Sheikh Qassem. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, pro-opposition defense official Mohammed Novlo said Russian jet fighters struck a 5-floor building -- where Qassem’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl learnt that the international road between Homs and Tartus was cut for several hours on Tuesday, specifically at the village of Oum Haratin, a predominantly Shiite village, situated next to Homs’ refinery, forcing travelers in both directions to alternative...

Two hospitals were damaged and a bakery hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Wednesday, residents said, as Syrian government forces pressed their Russian-backed campaign to retake the whole city. At least six people were killed by artillery shelling in the al-Maadi...