U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, will try to hammer out final details of a cooperation agreement on fighting ISIS in Syria during talks in Geneva Friday. The hope is that a deal will lead to a cessation of hostilities across Syria and relaunch...

 Syrian rebels, who this week seized a strategic town from Islamic State, aim to move westward in the next phase of their Turkey-backed operation, an advance that could take weeks or months to complete, a rebel commander said. Colonel Ahmad Osman, head of the Sultan Murad group, also told...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Gathering of thowar Aleppo that includes all activists has directed a message to the World Food Programme (WFP) to express their rejection to choosing the Castello road to deliver the humanitarian aid, which is controlled by the Syrian regime and the Kurdish People’s...

 Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances. Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and...

Hundreds of rebel fighters and thousands of civilians are to evacuate the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya after rebels and the Syrian army agreed to a deal, a rebel leader and a state news agency have said. Thursday's development ended one of the longest standoffs in the Syria's five-year...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people including children have been killed in barrel bombs attack on al-Nairab neighborhood in northern Aleppo province, local reporter said.  6 children and 3 women were among the casualties, medics said. Civil defense rescuing group said the death...

A  UN investigation has established that President Bashar al-Assad's forces carried out at least two chemical attacks in Syria and that Islamic State [IS] militants used mustard gas as a weapon. The panel was able to identify the perpetrators of three chemical...

The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have withdrawn across the Euphrates river to prepare for "the eventual liberation" of Raqqa, a city held by ISIS, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against the militant group said on Thursday. SDF officials could not immediately be reached for...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters were retreating to the east of the Euphrates river, Turkish Foreign Ministry sources said. In an early morning call, the two emphasised that the fight against ISIS in...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, into the early hours of Thursday morning on ways to end Yemen's conflict and resume peace talks between the warring sides. Kerry arrived in Jeddah from Nigeria for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out 17 air strikes on Jabal al-Akrad hilltops in Latakia province, seeking to get back bodies of slain soldiers and senior Russian officer. On Monday, the Syrian resistance forces captured Kannaba tow, from the regime army. Such a strategic gain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army have seized control of the ISIS-held town of Jarabulus on the Turkish border, following major attack backed by Turkish elite forces and the U.S.-led coalition air strikes, opposition media outlets and activists said. The moderate FSA forces have captured...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After more than a week of clashes between YPG, the armed wing of Kurdish Democratic union Party (PYD) and Syrian regime, the Kurdish forces almost completely controlled Hasaka city on Tuesday after the ceasefire truce that strengthened the Kurds' grip on the city. The battle...

Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces on Wednesday captured the ISIS-held village of Kaklijah, some 3 kilometers (2 miles) south of the Turkish-Syrian border, a Turkish military source said. FSA forces are expected to advance towards Jarabulus, around 6 km (4 miles) from the border city, the source...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched major attack on Free Syrian Army units based in the Syrian desert east of Damascus, using car bomb and heavy shelling, local monitor group said. Ahmed al-Abdo Forces, key unit in the Southern Front alliance, said it had thwarted the attack,...

A Syrian activist group monitoring the civil war says Syrian rebels who were amassed at the Turkish border have crossed into Syria as part of a Turkey-backed operation to liberate an Islamic State-controlled border town. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the fighters were preceded...

Turkish special forces units and jets supported by warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition launched an operation in northern Syria on Wednesday to wipe out Islamic State militants along the border with Turkey, Turkish officials said. The Turkish army began firing artillery rounds into the Syrian...

The Russian military said on Monday its aircraft operating from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes in Syria had completed their tasks, but left open the possibility of using the Hamadan base again if circumstances warranted. Iran's Foreign Ministry said Russia had stopped using the base...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance have killed more than 300 regime troops this week as Bashar al-Assad's forces press to recapture a military complex they lost two week ago in the battleground city of Aleppo, rebel commander said on Tuesday. Captain Naji al-Mustafa, senior commander in Suqour...

 Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the government, consolidating the Kurds' grip on Syria's northeast as Turkey increased its efforts to check their influence. The Kurdish YPG militia, a critical part of...