Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- On the window front of one of the Arabic shops in the area of Itakeskus in the Finish city of Helsinki, a cardboard sign faces passersby with the phrase “reductions for fasters” and next to it the phrase, “Happy Ramadan” in the country’s language with...

Intensive Syrian air strikes on Saturday killed at least 30 civilians in a Damascan suburb town northeast of the city a day after the reported execution of a Syrian air force pilot, a monitor and rebels said. They said the raids targeted a medical center, a school and a residential area in...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- A Syrian suicide bomber surrendered himself on Friday to the security committee in Atma camp near Bab al-Hawa border crossing in northern idlib province, activists said. The suicide bomber said a another explosives-laden car driven was due to rock...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels made remarkable gains in the coastal Latakia province, taking vast territory including strategic towns and hilltops in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman areas after setback and retreat to regime favor last months. Rebels' gain was a rare in Latakia since Russia...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias have looted everything came in their way in houses of villages they controlled in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkmen, that what rebels of the countryside of Latakia witnessed when they regained the village...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime killed 25 civilians on Friday in air strikes rocked local marketplace in northern Aleppo city, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. The deadly strikes targeted Tariq al-Bab neighborhood two hours before Iftar time, leaving dozens killed an wounded. Death toll is expected...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The humanitarian situation in the area of Yarmouk basin in the Western countryside of Daraa  has been deteriorated due to fighting between the armed opposition and Yarmouk martyrs Brigade, the Islamic State affiliate in Horan. The Justice...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has killed the captive pilot after his warplane was shot down by the powerful Islam Army group northeast of Damascus on Friday, according to statement posted online by Islam Army.   A spokesman for Jaish al-Islam rebels, who...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 regime troops killed Friday in clashes with rebels in al-Khalediya neighborhood of Aleppo, local monitoring group said. Rebels who thwarted regime attack on the neighborhood have inflicted huge losses in regime ranks, killing and wounding dozens, according...

 A Syrian warplane crashed northeast of Damascus on Friday and its pilot was captured by rebels in the area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian state media said the crash was caused by a technical fault and a search was under way for the pilot, who had ejected....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels made Friday more gains in the Coastal Latakia province, recapturing strategic town of Kasnaba and three hilltops after week of major offensive against regime forces and allied militias in Jabal al-Akrad area, rebel commanders said. An Ahrar al-Sham commander...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces waged an arrest campaign tracking 17,000 people who escaped conscription in the coastal city of Latakia, amid severe shortage in manpower in the army, activists said. Activist Abo Ahmed Lazqani reported to Zaman Al Wasl that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people have been killed in surface-to-surface missile attack hit Otaya town in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, activists said Thursday. Three children and a woman were among the casualties, medics in Douma hospital said. In northern Idlib...

Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government, sources familiar with the Kremlin's thinking say. Getting to that point could take years, and in the meantime Russia...

Translation  by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of besieged villages in the southern countryside of Hama have forwarded a message  to the office of the United Nation in Turkey, explaining their tragic living conditions in the villages of Harbanafsah, Talaf and Aqrab which...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said in an interview to be broadcast on Friday that Western countries had sent security officials to help his government covertly in fighting Islamist militants involved in Syria's war. Assad, in remarks to Australia's SBS News channel that were carried by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people have been killed in motorbike bomb attack in northern Idlib city while several more people have been wounded in two explosive devices attacks in Bennish and Salqeen towns, local activists said Thursday. The explosives-laden motorbike exploded near Fatah Army...

Reporting by Amar Bakour; Translation b Rana  Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the past two months, rebels foiled repeated attempts by the regime forces and its supporting militias to reach the strategic Castello road north of Aleppo city. In the night of Wednesday 29 June 2016, during a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 113 Syrians troops have been killed and 300 more have been wounded in the ongoing battles in Latakia province as rebels launch major offensive in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman areas, medical source told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels, who launched 'al-Yarmouk Battle'...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Palestinians killed in regime air strikes on the besieged refugee camp of Khan al-Shih south of Damascus, local council said Wednesday. Regime warplanes have carried out more than 50 raids on Khan al-Shih town and the Palestinian camp since Sunday, the town's local...