A group of Syrians, who said they were forced to join PKK/PYD, fled the terrorist group and sought refuge in the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The Syrian group told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that they had to leave their villages near Kobani town, controlled by PYD, the Syrian wing of the PKK...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Crossing point of Si-Malka between Syria and Iraq has prevented almost 1500 Iraqi refugees in Syria from passing back to Iraq under orders of the Iraqi government.  Manager of the International human Rights Organization office in Syria, Farhan Saleh Turkey mentioned...

 Warplanes launched some of the heaviest air strikes yet on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Friday after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive to fully capture Syria's biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire. Residents said the streets were deserted as the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A human rights organization has documented 242 violation for the Cessation of Hostility agreement brokered by Russia and USA, which was put in effect in the first day of Adha Eid, Monday, September 12, at 7:00 pm Syria’s time. The Syrian Network for Human Rights...

(Eqtsad)- Rabia, 12-year-old, carries his thin body which bends under the weight of the heavy Russian made rifle. He hangs it on his shoulder, passing over his neck and the collection of magazines and hand grenades. Rabia was a middle school student in the 7th grade, known to be serious and...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Thursday joined in opposing a call by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to halt all flights over Syria in efforts to get relief shipments through, saying that would only help Islamic radicals gain ground. Rouhani also alleged Washington was sowing fear among...

 The Syrian regime army announced the start of a new military offensive in the rebel-held east of the city of Aleppo on Thursday, signaling a potential further escalation in a bombing campaign by Russian and Syrian jets that rebels say has already intensified in the last 24 hours. State...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 350 people, including 120  rebel fighters, arrived the northern Homs countryside on Thursday, leaving al-Waer neighborhood, their last foothold in the city of Homs. The fighters, carrying their personal weapons, and their families headed from the al-Waer...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Professor in constitutional law Abdul Hamid al-Awak said the census processed by Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its ally forces in Syria Democratic Council is illegal and illegitimate pointing out the census is done to cover up the forced displacement of Arabs and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many political figures of Ghad al-Suri movement announced, in a joint statement, their withdrawal from the movement following the agreement between the movement head Ahmed Jarba and the Kurdish Self Administration on September 10, which identified the conflict in Syria as a...

The number of Syrians who have returned to Jarabulus near the Turkish border from Turkey is approaching 3,000, weeks after the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated the northern Syrian town in the Aleppo province, a local migration official told Anadolu Agency Thursday. “Our office...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 rebel commanders and civilians, including the interim Minister of Local Administration and commander of Mojahidi Horan brigade were killed in a suicide bomb attack targeted their meeting building in southern Daraa province, sources said. Among victims were also...

A volunteer group in Syria that has rescued thousands of people from buildings bombed in the civil war were among the winners of the Right Livelihood Award, the prize-giving foundation said on Thursday. The Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, shared the award with Egyptian...

 Six people, including five children, were wounded when a rocket from Syria hit the Turkish border town of Kilis on Thursday, officials said, the first such attack since Ankara-backed rebels cleared Islamic State from Turkey's southern border this month. Windows were shattered and dust...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that a MiG 23 BN airplane was shot down on Wednesday evening in eastern Qalamoun as it conducted a raid on one of locations where battles are raging between Islamic State from one side and Ahmad al-Abdu Brigade and Jaish al-Islam on the other...

 The planned evacuation of several hundred Syrian rebels from their last foothold in the city of Homs began on Thursday, with around 120 fighters and their families scheduled to leave by bus, witnesses and state media said. The fighters, carrying their personal weapons, and their families...

A United Nations aid convoy was due to deliver aid on Thursday to besieged areas near the Syrian capital after a 48-hour suspension to review security guarantees in the wake of a deadly attack on relief trucks near Aleppo, a U.N. spokesman said. "We are sending today an inter-agency convoy...

UN aid convoy heading to besieged area in rural Damascus on Thursday to deliver vital supplies: UN spokesman

Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, rebel officials and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday. There was no immediate comment from the Syrian military on the reports, or mention of Aleppo air...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry demanded on Wednesday that Russia and the Syrian government immediately halt flights over Syrian battle zones, in what he called a last chance to salvage a collapsing ceasefire and find a way "out of the carnage". An impassioned Kerry faced off with...