Several people were killed when a mortar bomb hit a restaurant in the government-controlled ancient quarter of the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, a monitor and a witness said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens were also wounded in the attack. A witness told...
Syria's government said on Sunday it was ready for further peace talks with the opposition and that it was intent on a political solution to the five-year conflict. "Syria ... is ready to continue the Syrian-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions ... and without foreign interference, with...
Air raids have hit four makeshift hospitals in Syria's battered Aleppo city, doctors said Sunday, jeopardising medical care for more than 200,000 desperate civilians in rebel-held areas. The bombardment since Saturday has worsened the plight of residents of besieged eastern neighbourhoods of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of acres of planted land in Bashragi village subordinate to Bayt Yashout in coastal city of Jableh were confiscated by Agriculture Directory in Latakia Province on grounds the land has not been cultivated and planted by farmers for a long time. Owners of the land...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces and its security branches have started forming a new militia called Bayariq al-Ashayer in the Southern countryside of Hasaka in conjunction with prevailing tension within militias of Syrian Democratic Forces after arresting many...
(Eqtsad)- In a step expected by Eqtsad website previously, the new governor of regime-controlled Syria Central Bank Dured Durgham confirmed the Monetary and Credit Council will release a resolution start of next week in regard to move focus to meet foreign currency from currency exchange...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime killed at least 6 civilians and wounded 20 in air strikes rocked local marketplace in Misraba town on Saturday, east of the capital, medics said. The strikes hit also Shafouniya and Douma in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces prepare for new...
(Middle East Eye)- Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate reportedly faced a split in its ranks earlier this week as Russia and the US prepared to launch co-ordinated air strikes against it, and analyst Charles Lister tweeted on Saturday that Nusra’s Shura Council has voted to sever its ties with Al Qaeda,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian and U.S.-led air strikes killed at least 34 people on Saturday in the war-ravaged Aleppo province, local reporter said. The deadly aerial bombing of regime warplanes and Russian jets killed 24 people in raids on al-Qaterji, al-Saliheen and al-Hulk neighborhoods. In...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people were killed Saturday in cluster bombs attack carried out by regime warplanes on Jisr al-Shughour town in northern Idlib province, local media center said. The aerial bombing has also targeted al-Tmanaa and Hazano towns and Idlib city. More than 23...
Skeptics in the U.S. government, European allies in the anti-Islamic State coalition and the main Syrian opposition, distrustful of Russia's intentions, are questioning Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest proposal for closer U.S.-Russian cooperation against extremist groups in Syria....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition-linked education directorate in northern Idlib province halted exams due to fierce aerial bombing by Regime warplanes and allied Russian jets, according to statement issued by the National Coalition Friday. The directorate said the schools exams will be...
A Syrian graphic designer has taken inspiration from the smash hit virtual reality Pokemon Go game to shed light on the suffering of people in his war-torn homeland. Saif Tahhan recently posted the images on Facebook, calling it the "Syrian version" of the game. The wildly popular...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement agreed with Jund al-Aqsa to end discord after one fighter of Ahrar had been killed by the rival group in the northwestern countryside of Idlib city on Thursday. The agreement said the perpetrator will stand before the judicial committee to get...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Democratic Union party (PYD) has organised funerals for its killed members including two commanders in many areas in Northern of Hasaka on Thursday, while it did not mention the death of dozens of young men who where mandatorily conscripted...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nearly 40 Syrian regime soldiers and allied militia fighters were killed when rebels blew up a tunnel under a government position in Aleppo city, activists said Friday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 38 members of regime forces were killed in the...
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria hopes that a meeting expected to be held in Geneva next week with U.S. and Russian officials will pave the way for a resumption of peace talks between the warring parties, his spokeswoman said Friday. Jessy Chahine, spokeswoman for Staffan de Mistura,...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many crimes and offences are being committed in Latakia by militias and Shabiha of different loyalties without any official action to be taken. A 70-year-old lady was killed in her home in Mashroo’a Salaiba neighbourhood in Latakia, two days before...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Wounded fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have been receiving treatment in regime-run hospitals in Aleppo city sources said. The YPG fighters who operate in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood can easily move to regime-held areas to get medication amid...
A Syrian who was beheaded by a rebel group in Aleppo this week was a 19-year-old pro-regime fighter suffering from a growth defect and not a child, activists have claimed. He was named as Abdullah al-Issa and that his family members said he was a 19-year-old who volunteered to fight with the...
