Transaction by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian National Defense (NDF) militia cut Homs-Salamiye-Aleppo International road on Saturday in cooperation with some locals in al-Mushirfe pro-regime village. Zaman al-Wasl correspondent in Homs said NDF cut the road after release of a resolution...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two hours had not passed since the start of the rain falling on Latakia’s countryside for the village streets to flood disrupting the movement of traffic in some street. And this situation goes back to “the theft of provincial officials of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in the southern outskirts of Damascus said they will prevent food and fuel entry to ISIS-held areas in al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Tadamon and Yarmouk camp, according to statement posted online. Zaman al-Wasl’s correspondent in the area said that factions allowed...

The Syrian opposition retook four villages from the Islamic State in Aleppo province’s Azaz district, local sources told Anadolu Agency. The sources, who spoke anonymously due to fear of reprisal, said the opposition retook Nida, Sindif, Niyara and Tatiya villages in eastern Azaz district....

The UNHCR on Saturday expressed acute concern about nearly 165,000 displaced persons massing near a town in northern Syria. In a written statement, the UN's refugee agency said they are "deeply concerned" about the reported massing of 165,000 people near the town of Azaz, some 32 kilometers...

The world community has yet to find an adequate response to cultural destruction as shown by the deliberate wrecking of ancient sites in Syria and Mali by Islamist radicals, the head of the UN's cultural organization said. Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of political detainees in Hama central prison have revolted for the second time this month, taking senior police officer and guards hostage as regime failed to abide by a deal reached to end a mutiny by freeing fellow inmates, sources said Saturday. The prison's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have thwarted a major attack by the Islamic State on Marea town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, killing and wounding dozens, local reporter said Saturday. The ISIS attack launched overnight to take the strategic town after seizing control of array of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- While the Russian Ministry of Defense’s announcement on Wednesday the 25th of May of the extension of the period it previously gave to the Syrian opposition factions for them to continue what Moscow calls “their disclaimer from al-Nusra Front” under the title of “National...

 The United Nations' humanitarian chief on Friday demanded that the Syrian government and militant groups stop interfering with the delivery of food and medicine for civilians trapped in besieged and difficult-to-reach areas in war-ravaged Syria. "The continued use of siege and starvation...

(Hurriyet Daily News)- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has strongly reacted to photos of U.S. special operations forces wearing Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) insignia on their shoulders during an assault on Syria’s Raqqa, saying it is “unacceptable.”  “It...

 Islamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said. The ultra-hardline group has been fighting against rebels in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people were killed Friday in northern Idlib city when an explosives-laden car detonated near a mosque, local media center said. In the nearby Kafr Rouma town, a child was killed an two people wounded in regi,e air strike, al-Marra media center said. On Thursday, 4 people...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city have launched their local sport festival this week that will for two weeks, such a move to break the siege suffering and to revive hope amid harsh living conditions, activists said. The...

At least 10 people, including children, have been killed Friday in regime air strike on a bakery in Hreitan town in northern Aleppo province, activists said. Syria's devastating war has killed more than 280,000 people, activists said Thursday in a new toll for the five-year conflict. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- May 14 was a catastrophic day for the Russian Federation the inheritor of the Soviet Union, where helicopters and fighter jets belonging to the Russian air force in the central part of Syria burned in an incident that is the first of its kind since the removal of the red Soviet...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- An exchange deal of bodies and abductees was achieved within the last two days between the Syrian regime and rebels of North Countryside of Homs mediated by the Syrian Red Crescent in Homs and Hama provinces. The Red Crescent in Homs and the Civil...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, have seized control of a strategic town on the western outskirts of Damascus on Thursday, killing and wounding dozens of regime forces, rebel sources and state-run media said. The capture of Deir...

There will be no new round of Syria talks for at least two or three weeks, the office of U.N. special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said in a statement on Thursday, after he consulted the U.N. Security Council for about two and a half hours. "He briefed on his intention to start the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman A Wasl)- Syrian rebels have thwarted regime attack on the village of al-Hadada in Latakia province for the seventh time this month, causing significant injuries and deaths among the regime forces and allied Shiite militias, local activists said. After a...