A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers' organization that operates in rebel-held areas, said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People’s Protection units (YPG) the armed wing of Democratic Union party (PYD) has Wednesday warned 3 villages in Southern countryside of Hasaka to evacuate them without explaining reasons, besides warning young men to join the mandatory conscription.  Local sources...

A group of 292 Syrians went back to the Syrian town of Jarablus from Turkey on Wednesday, marking the first formal return of civilians since Ankara launched a military incursion two weeks ago to try to secure the border region, a Turkish official said. Jarablus, which had been held by...

The Syrian government has begun releasing 169 prisoners in exchange for the return of the bodies of five Russian soldiers killed when their helicopter was downed, a lawyer said Wednesday. “On Tuesday, 50 inmates including seven women were set free from Adra prison and 84 others from Hama...

At least 28 civilians were killed and scores injured in Russian airstrikes in northern Syria’s Aleppo province on Wednesday.  Russian warplanes carried out three raids on residential areas in the opposition-held al-Sokkary district in Aleppo, Najib al-Ansari, a local civil defense...

 Syria's main opposition negotiating group would reject any deal struck by Russia and the United States on Syria's fate that was very different from its own proposed transition plan, the group's general coordinator Riyad Hijab said on Wednesday. The High Negotiations Committee, which is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Amy backed by Turkish jets have pressed new advances on Wednesday in the northern countryside of Aleppo, taking 6 more villages from the Islamic State as the Euphrates Shield military operations enters third week, Anadolu agency said. The villages that situated...

Reporting by Tareq Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime government issued a decision recently prohibiting the landing of all civilian airplanes in Hmeymim international airport and its transition into a military airport. Sources confirmed that the prohibition decision came based on...

Fighting in Syria's western Hama province displaced an estimated 100,000 people between Aug. 28 and Sept. 5, the United Nations said on Wednesday, citing the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the governor of the province. Syrian rebels launched an offensive last week in northern Hama, an area of...

Education is a leading, and hidden, casualty of war, with some 3 million children out of school in Syria alone, said Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian diplomat hoping to become the next head of the United Nations, on Tuesday. World leaders must act to improve education in nations torn by war, Bokova...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six people have been killed on Tuesday in regime vacuum missiles attacks on northern Idlib province, local activists said. The four missiles that hit Maerdabseh town have also left dozens wounded. The aerial bombing on rebel-held Idlib has targeted Marret al-Numan, Saraqeb,...

Syrian regime helicopters dropped a number of barrel bombs on opposition-held parts of Aleppo’s Sukkeri district on Tuesday, leaving scores of residents injured, according to local civil defense sources. "Regime helicopters dropped barrel-bombs -- some of which contained chlorine gas --...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The list that has been circulated to recognise victims of Tartus’s explosions indicated the regime’s neglect of people’s minor rights of privacy and dignity, as the list mentioned details of victims’ underwear. The list that was obtained by Zaman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Supervisors on a UNICEF-supported project within teaching facilities in northeastern Hasaka province have threatened of teacher and applicants for employment of dismissing if they did not participate in the protests against the Turkish operation of Euphrates  Shield in the...

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A State of anger is prevailing in the regime-controlled areas of the Western side of Aleppo city due to the increase cases of looting empty houses after leaving them by their owners, especially those near front lines, by member of the Popular...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians have been killed on Monday in Russian vacuum missile attack hit al-Sukkari neighborhood in the battleground city of Aleppo, activists said. The fierce aerial bombing on rebel-held Aleppo came as opposition forces fight to break the renewed siege on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- There are not clear indicators about what have been nominated as the clauses of the new agreement in al-Waer neighborhood, referred to officially as New Homs. The impression among many, regime opposition and supporters alike, is that it is a repetition of what happened in old...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian regime and negotiation committee via Russian mediation agreed that rebels will evacuate Mouadammiya town in Damascus, activists said. The move 10 days after the evacuation of sister town Daraya, one of the longest-standing of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad....

Explosions in government-controlled areas of Syria and a province held by Kurdish militia killed dozens on Monday, while the United States and Russia failed to make concrete progress towards a ceasefire. Six explosions hit west of the capital Damascus, in the government-held cities of Homs...

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a longer-than-expected discussion on Monday about whether, and how, they could agree on a ceasefire deal in war-torn Syria, a senior U.S. administration official said. Obama and Putin spent about 90 minutes in a "constructive"...