Syrian regime's army general command said warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition bombed a Syrian army position at Jebel Tharda near Deir al-Zor airport on Saturday, paving the way for Islamic State fighters to overun it. The air strike killed Syrian soldiers and was "conclusive evidence" that...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At leats 5 people have killed and 18 more wounded in Russian and regime air strikes on Homs province, medics said on Saturday. The strikes hit Talbiseh town in the northern countryside due to cluster bomb explosion, medical sources in the town's main hospital said....

(HRW)- Education for Syrian children has become a casualty of war: school enrollment rates have fallen drastically, not only in Syria but among children who have fled. Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan have taken generous steps to provide Syrian children with access to education, yet more than half...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New violations of the U.S.-Russia brokered ceasfire were recorded on Saturday as Russia and regime warplanes launched several raids on villages and towns in northern Homs and southern Hama countryside. Manger of Homs northern countryside observatory Khaled al-Rashid said the...

Over the past five years, Jordan has become one of the biggest recipients of refugees fleeing its war-torn neighbor, Syria. Almost 700,000 Syrians have been registered as refugees in the country, which has a population of just 6.5 million. Those are just the ones who have registered; Jordanian...

Syria's ceasefire "will not hold out", a senior rebel official in Aleppo warned on Saturday, as air strikes and shelling continued in some places and promised aid deliveries failed to come through. The ceasefire is the result of an agreement between Russia, which backs Syrian President...

The spotlight will be on Syria when world leaders gather at the United Nations next week as the United States and Russia try to shore up a fragile truce deal and President Barack Obama pushes for a boost in global refugee aid. Some 135 heads of state and government and dozens of ministers...

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had designated the leader of a group of French foreign fighters in Syria and a senior Hamas official as specially designated global terrorists, a move that freezes their U.S. assets. The State Department described the first man, Omar Diaby, as the...

The United States and Russia said on Friday they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored, although the agreement looked increasingly shaky, undermined by increasing violence and a failure to deliver aid. The second attempt this year by the Cold War-era...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian writers, artists, and journalists condemned the American-Russian intervention in their country in tandem with the ceasefire agreed on by both sides on Syrian territory which began on the eve of the first day of Eid al-Adha.  They introduced themselves as...

Translated by Yusra  Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two members the military wing of Democratic Union Party (PYD) were killed this Friday by an explosive device targeted their car near the city of Shadadi southern of Hasaka, while PYD continued bulldozing Arabs’ houses in the region. The party...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- the Syrian regime and supporting militias have launched heavy attack of the the neighbourhood of Jobar in Damascus, trying to invade especially at Tiba axis, but the Free Syrian Army (FSA) stopped them killing dozens of them according to activists.  Befor the attack,...

Twenty-two members of Syria’s Kurdish National Council (KNC) have waged a hunger strike for the last five days to show solidarity with political prisoners being held by the PYD, the Syrian offshoot of PKK terrorist group. "Our strike will continue until the PYD frees all detained KNC members...

 Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce. An organization that monitors the war also said the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed on Friday the village of Marshamsha and town of Tamana and other areas in southern countryside of Aleppo with vacuum bombs, resulted and severe damage to the civil defense centre in Idlib city, beside many breaches for the truce of hostility...

 Food aid for desperate civilians in eastern Aleppo remained stuck on the Syrian border Friday, the fourth morning of a fragile internationally-brokered truce in the war-ravaged country. An AFP correspondent said no movement could be seen on the rubble-strewn Castello Road, the main route...

(Washington Post)- The remains of three Americans who died in Syria after joining a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia to fight the Islamic State are expected to be repatriated Wednesday, members of their families and a congressional source said. The bodies of Levi Shirley, William Savage and Jordan...

Syrian government forces and rebels had yet to withdraw from a road needed to deliver aid to the city of Aleppo on Thursday, threatening the most serious international peacemaking effort in months as the sides accused each other of violating a truce. The aid delivery to rebel-held eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated photos showing American flags waving in YPG-held Tel Abyad town near the Turkish border, amid conflicted reports that the place is a U.S. military base.   Local activists said YPG had raised the flags in al-Monbateh village to avoid Turkey-backed...

Reporting by Tareq Hajbakri (Eqtsad)- An official in the Public Directorate of Electricity in Latakia revealed that Russian companies intend to install electricity generators to supply the Latakia and Tartus provinces with electricity.  In a relevant content, officials sources...