(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels launched a surprise attack on regime barracks in al-Zara town in the southern countryside of Hama province, seizing gun machines and tank. Rebels said the overnight attack was in support of the besieged Aleppo city. In the next-door northern countryside of Homs,...

A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter was shot down hours earlier. A spokesman for Syria Civil Defence told Reuters that 33 people, mostly women and...

 The U.N. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria on Sunday held talks with Syrian officials in Damascus to sound out their position on how to break an impasse hindering the proposed resumption of peace talks around the end of August. Ramzy E. Ramzy said he and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Children of the besieged Aleppo city played a remarkable role in the ongoing attack launched by rebels to break regime siege on the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo. The plums of smoke resulted of burning hundreds of worn tires have distracted Syrian and Russian warplanes...

Syrian rebel fighters have launched a major assault on government-held southwestern parts of Aleppo to try to reopen supply lines after the army and its allies tightened their siege of opposition-held parts of the city last week. The rebels are trying to break through the strip of...

A helicopter crashed in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said, and the pilot was taken from the wreckage. The Observatory said it could not confirm whether the helicopter was Syrian or Russian. Images shared on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement fired two Grad rockets on Russia-held Hmeimym airbase in coastal Latakia province on Sunday, activists said. No casualties reported due to the attack. Regime-run media outlets said the missiles hit two villages near Qardaha city, Bashar...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Eqtsad)- Few days ago, the Syrian regime managed to control the last supply route connecting the liberated areas in Aleppo to the other parts of the country, to join the list of besieged cities.  Four years passed since Liwa al-Tawheed and the Free...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia provided Syrian regime with a shipment of air force ammunition of all types estimated to be thousands of tons. A big part of the shipment is of type RBK cluster 500 anti-vehicles and anti-tanks, military source said. The source pointed out the shipment allocated for...

Syrian rebel fighters launched on Sunday a major assault on government-held southwestern parts of Aleppo in the first major drive to regain ground after major losses last week when the army and its allies tightened its siege of opposition-held parts of the northern city. A rebel military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes renewed raids on Aleppo countryside targeting few towns with vacuum and cluster missiles.  The raids extended to besieged neighborhoods in Aleppo city targeting medical and civil facilities, local sources said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Sunday renewed aerial bombing on medical facilities in Syria, killing 5 people after targeting a makeshift hospital in the western countryside of Daraa province, the town's media center said. Two women, two children and a man were the victims of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many civilians were killed and injured Saturday in Bidama town in Jabal al-Akrad by a ballistic missile fired from Russian warship opposite of al-Mina al-Bayda in Latakia, activists said. According to activists, the missile caused a huge explosion destroying few houses....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Anadan's main hospital was completely destroyed in a heavy missile attack late on Saturday as regime and key ally Russia keep pounding medical facilities in northern province of Aleppo, activists said. The media center of Anadan town in the northern countryside said the...

 U.S.-backed forces now control 40 percent of the Islamic State-held Syrian city of Manbij after new advances in the last day that secured them key areas inside the strategic city near the Turkish border, a monitor said on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl’s correspondent in Aleppo refuted news circulated on pro-regime media outlets, and local and international news agencies about families besieged in Aleppo’s eastern neighborhoods leaving to regime controlled areas visa a humanitarian passage.  The...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A woman was burned in Palmyra city by Iraqi shiite militias fighting in support of Bashar al-Assad, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Sources said that whoever returned to Palmyra returned under pressure of hard conditions of displacement or under threat clarfiying that the woman...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- 10 Regime troops were killed in the latest attacks on the village of Shalaf and Kansaba town in jabal al-Akrad late on Friday, which failed due to rebels’ traps, according to activists.  The armed opposition forces managed to capture...

(Middle East Eye)- Some 5,188 civilians have been killed in Syria since the announcement of a cessation of hostilities in the country five months ago, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said yesterday. The network said the regime forces and Russia were responsible for 71 per cent of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- High school exams to resume on Thursday in the rebel-held province of Idlib after one week freeze due to regime aerial campaign on northern Syria. The Directorate of Education in Free Idlib said the exams to be continued despite daily bombing. In the next-door city of Aleppo,...