(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four fighters from the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed and many injured due to a trap of the Islamic State in the Southern countryside of Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday. Activist Ahmed al-Ali confirmed that 18 members of SDF and Arab young men...

Hundreds of thousands of civilians in rebel-held areas of Aleppo risk starvation, the head of Syria's main opposition coalition said Tuesday, accusing Damascus of trying to besiege the city into submission. Aleppo, once Syria's economic powerhouse, has been ravaged by the conflict that began...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Doctors working in Aleppo have warned of a medical crisis in the war-ravaged city if the blockade by Bashar al-Assad regime continues as army forces press to cut Castello Road, main route to rebel-held Aleppo. Abdul Salam Daif , member of Free Doctors Association in Aleppo...

The normalization of relations between Turkey and Russia will help both countries find new effective ways for a solution to Syrian crisis, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday. Lavrov made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar...

Reporting by Okab Malek (Zaman al-Wasl)- Well-informed sources reported Iran sent more land troops via military transport and civil aircraft to Syria during the past few days especially on Eid days. Sources revealed arrival of 3 to 5 Boeing aircraft. Each has a capacity of transporting more...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State-run news agency said 17 army troops have been killed on Monday in clashes in the eastern countryside of Homs province. Aamaq agency said ISIS fighters had thwarted regime attack on Tellat al-Abraj area southeast of Palmyra city, killing and wounding dozens....

Turkey has not been able to confirm reports that a senior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) commander had been killed in Syria, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday, in what would be a major blow to Kurdish militants. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday that a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of Nusra Front fighters and their families to leave the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, heading Idlib province in the coming days due to a deal reached with the Syrian regime south of Damascus, local reporter said on Monday. The first batch will be for wounded fighters and...

The Syrian regime on Monday sent columns of armored vehicles into the Daraya suburb west of Damascus in the largest deployment of its kind since it imposed a siege on the area in 2012. "The incursion, which is backed by [pro-regime] militias, is massive," Tamam Abu al-Khair, a member of the...

Writing by Ammar Bakkour (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG)’s interests met with Syrian regime interests in fighting Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions in the northern side of Aleppo city.  They ignored what might happen to their presence inside Aleppo city if the...

 Rebels launched an attack inside Aleppo early on Monday, shelling Syrian government-held areas and clashing with government-allied forces in the center of the divided northwestern city, a monitoring group reported. Syrian warplanes bombarded rebel-held areas in the city and north of it,...

 The family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a U.S. court, accusing the Syrian government of deliberately killing her. Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs in 2012...

 Islamic State lost an area the size of Ireland - a quarter of its territory - to hostile forces in the last 18 months in Iraq and Syria and is likely to further step up attacks on civilians in coming months, IHS said in a report on Sunday. The territory controlled by the ultra-hardline...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al-Wasl)- Media accounts loyal to Bashar al-Assad, reported dozens of army troops have been killed on Sunday near Kansaba town in Latakia province. Mohammed al-Naji, correspondent of Latakia Media Network has detailed that the regime had resumed its attack...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people have been killed in regime air strikes on Burj al-Qaei village in the northern countryside of Homs city, local activists said Sunday. 8 more people have wounded in the vacuum missile attack. Activists said most of the victims were displaced from Kissin and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al least 4 people killed early Sunday in mortar rounds fired by regime forces on the rebel-held city of Douma northeast Damascus, activists said. In the nearby city of Dumeir, 14 people, including 3 children, were killed on Saturday in an explosive device planted by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and Russian forces launched more than 100 air strikes on Saturday on al-Mallah area in Aleppo countryside, local sources reported. Local reporter said the regime fighter jets and its Russian allies launched over 100 airstrikes one points controlled by the rebels...

Syrian rebels fought fierce battles with government forces in a failed bid to reopen their only supply route into Aleppo city overnight, losing at least 29 combatants, a monitor said Sunday. The assault sought to push government forces back from the Castello Road that leads into the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime forces have arrested dozens of young men for mandatory military service at the barrier near the roundabout of Zabana village to the East of Qamishli city in the countryside of Hasaka. While the Democratic Union Party did the same where it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 people, including 3 children, were killed on Saturday in an explosive device planted by the Islamic State inside a charity kitchen supported by the powerful Islam Army in Dumeir town, 45 km (30 miles) east of Damascus, local monitor said. Activists said 'ISIS...