U.S.-backed forces cut off all routes in and out of the ISIS-held city of Manbij near the Syrian-Turkish border Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group said. The Syria Democratic Forces, supported by U.S.-led airstrikes and U.S. special forces, seized control of the...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said on Friday it could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been wounded in air strikes. A spokesman of the coalition, Colonel Chris Garver, said in an email that he had seen the reports...

A food aid convoy on Thursday entered the Syrian town of Daraya, the first delivery since the start of the siege there by the Damascus regime in 2012, a Red Crescent official told AFP. “Nine lorries are currently being unloaded in Daraya. They are carrying food aid, including dry goods and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have recaptured group lost to regime forces early Thursday in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, rebel commander said. Captain Abdul Salam Abdul Razzaq, spokesman of Nour el-Din al-Zinki Movement, said rebels have killed more than 50 regime soldiers in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime extended its aerial and ground campaign on Daraya town near the capital as clashes took place in the western and southern neighborhoods, activists said Thursday. The ongoing offensive on the besieged town of Daraya seeks to end rebel presence west...

 Russia did not carry out any air strikes on Syria's Aleppo on June 8 and 9, RIA news agency cited Defence Ministry's spokesman as saying on Thursday. Earlier, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Russian strikes had been targeting hospitals in the city of Aleppo since...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Bakkour al-Salim, commander of Alweyat al-Shahid Ahmed al-Abdo, was killed on Thursday when an ISIS suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt in the rebel group's headquarters east of Damascus. Al-Salim was a member in the High Negotiations Committee and one of the...

Turkey condemned Russian airstrikes on mosques, hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings in Syria Thursday and said such crimes would not go unpunished. Russian strikes had been targeting hospitals in the city of Aleppo since Wednesday, the foreign ministry said in a statement,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained special photos showing missiles, bombs and artillery shells fıred by regime warplanes and artillery on villages and towns in Homs northern countryside and Hama southern countryside; however, these bombs and shell did not explode, sources said. According...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists released images on Wednesday of Israeli food baskets with Hebrew writing on them being distributed in Quneitra’s liberated countryside in the displaced persons camps close to the border with occupied Golan. The released images evoked the anger of the Free Quneitra...

France has deployed special forces in northern Syria to advise the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting the ISIS group, a defense ministry official said Thursday. "The offensive at Manbij is clearly being backed by a certain number of states including France. It's the usual support -- it's...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian network of Human Rights has documented that the Syrian regime had killed 19773 children since march 2011, 297 of them were killed by sniping, and 159 under torture, while 10891 were detained, 2716 of them are still in detention. The...

: ISIS' far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on Wednesday with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline Islamists since they declared their caliphate two years ago. A spokesman for a U.S.-backed alliance in northern Syria...

e United States underestimates the long-term impact of civilian deaths on the success of military missions and is failing to implement lessons learned from 15 years in Afghanistan, according to a report released Wednesday. While the US military is committed to avoiding civilian casualties, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State had a surprise withdrawal from nine villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo, sources said. According to the sources, Isis withdrew from Sandaf village and Kafr Kalbeen and Kaljabreen towns and hence lifted the blockade off Mare’ city. Isis as well withdrew...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Strokes and heart attacks as causes of death have risen in Syria to become almost two third of the total natural causes. Dr. Hussein Nofal, the head of Forensic medicine in the Syrian regime's Ministry of Health reported that stroke and heart attack and...

Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of divided second city Aleppo killed at least 15 civilians Wednesday, an activist said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 10 of the dead came in raids just outside the Al-Bayan hospital in the Shaar neighborhood....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A weapon-loaded vehicle on Wednesday was exploded near regime bastion in the southern city of Swieda, activists said. According to the initial information, the vehicle driver refused to stop for a check by army soldiers near Salkhad village who opened fire in return.  

Rebel groups broke through an ISIS siege around an opposition-held town in northwestern Syria Wednesday, reopening their main road to the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The rebel groups besieged in the town of Marea had launched a counter attack against ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hassan al-Masri, prominent media activist, was killed on Tuesday in regime aerial bombing on the besieged town of Daraya west of Damascus.   Since the Syrian revolution erupted in March 2011, al-Masri who also known as al-Dairani, was one of the most active citizen...