(Zaman Al Wasl-NOW)- Ahrar al-Sham's spokesman defended the movement stand to not taking part in al-Mallah battles in Aleppo to reopen Castello Road, saying its a military suicide due to regime heavy presence and intrusion difficulties. Abu Yousef al-Muhajer told Zaman al-Wasl that the...

Two commanders from Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (RGC) were killed this week in Syria’s northwestern Aleppo province, Iranian media reported Monday. Seyyid Riza Mirasi, a retired RGC colonel, was killed earlier this week, according to local media accounts, while RGC Major Abulfazl...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 rebel groups operating in southern Daraa province launched new offensive to take two hilltops from regime forces as well as to lessen the attacks on the besieged town of Daraya western Damascus, an online statement said. The Southern Front group said taking...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge fire broke out on Thursday has destroyed thousands of tonnes of cotton harvest in Ghwiran district in the northeastern province of Hasaka, state-run media and activists said. Local sources reported that a huge fire had broken out in the new...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin about boosting military and intelligence cooperation against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and told him that without "concrete, near-term steps," diplomatic efforts to end the war could not go on indefinitely....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry took a proposal to boost military and intelligence cooperation against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria to Moscow on Thursday, despite doubts among U.S. defense and intelligence officials. Kerry was due to meet President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening...

Air strikes killed at least 12 civilians including children in two rebel-held neighborhoods of Syria’s Aleppo city on Thursday, a monitoring group said. Nine people were killed in the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood, and another three in the district of Salhin in the east of the city, the Syrian...

ISIS fighters brought down a Syrian jet near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor Thursday, a monitoring group and an agency linked to the radical militant group said. Amaq agency released video footage showing the flaming wreckage of a plane scattered across a stretch of barren rocky ground, as...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- A well-informed source revealed the curriculum vitea of one of those the source described as the thuggish arms present in the diplomatic field subordinate to the al-Assad regime, and the situation that this person is in at the moment knowing he is...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has warned there can be no solution to the Syrian conflict or the threat from extremists while President Bashar Assad remains in charge. In recent days, Yildirim has repeatedly said Turkey would seek good relations with Syria after diplomatic successes...

A US reporter killed in alleged Syrian government bombardment of a rebel district in 2012 was "responsible" for her own death, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview released Thursday. Speaking to NBC News in Damascus, Assad said Marie Colvin bore responsibility for her death in...

 Abu Omar al-Shishani, who the Pentagon described as Islamic State's "minister of war", was killed in combat in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, a news agency that supports the militant group said on Wednesday. The Pentagon said in March that Shishani had likely been killed in a...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow on Thursday to again seek deeper Russian cooperation in the war against Islamic State in Syria, but he faces strong opposition from defense and intelligence officials who argue that Washington and Moscow have diametrically opposite objectives...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is preparing plans to modify the law of mandatory military service after 6 years of issuance, it is expected to harden conditions over young men and make extremely difficult to get out of the country. The law of mandatory service...

 At least 12 people were killed in air strikes on the rebel-held western Syrian town of Rastan on Wednesday, a local doctor and a monitoring group said, despite a government-declared nationwide temporary truce. The British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 regime troops and allied militants were killed and wounded by rebels in new clashes in the southern countryside of Hama province, sources said Wednesday. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that a group of entrenched fighters part of the Islamic factions in Homs’ northern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have killed 9 people in air strikes hit northern Ariha town in Idlib province, local activists said Wednesday. The death toll is likely to rise since many wounded people are still in critical condition. The missile attack rocked the town's main...

 Rebel areas of Aleppo have stockpiled enough basic supplies to survive months of siege by Syrian pro-government forces that cut off their half of the city last week, even though some goods are running out, an opposition official said. Government forces backed by allies including...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The series of announcements of withdrawals and integrations from those overseeing the Thwar al-Sham Battalions, the faction whose formation was announced in April 2015 under the command of Captain Naji al-Mustafi with a coalition of several brigades operating in the western...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopters dropped at least 16 barrel bombs on besieged Daraya town west of Damascus, activists said Tuesday. The regime has also rocked the western neighborhoods with 7 surface-to-surface missiles as clashes are still underway between Liwa Shuhada' al-Islam and...