Russia said on Sunday talks were taking place to include Aleppo in a temporary lull in fighting declared by the Syrian army in some western parts of the country, a sign of intensified efforts to halt a surge of violence in Syria's former commercial capital. The United States said stopping the...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters killed 14 regime soldiers in surprise attack on al-Shaer gas field east of Homs city, sources said Sunday. 20 more soldiers were wounded in the attack as clashes are still ongoing amid fears that regime may lose the strategic field to favor...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syria's regime has threatened to bomb al-Waer neighborhood of central Homs city and to escalate military operations if the local negotiation committee did not agree to give in a batch of fighters in exchange of 140 detainees in the Central Prison, local sources told Zaman...

Military sources say at least two Islamic State militants have been killed by U.S.-led coalition drones launched from Turkey. Two MQ-1 Predators took off from southern Turkey's Incirlik base in Adana on Saturday and hit a building inside Syria being used to produce explosives and car bombs,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Democratic Union Party militia have allowed tens of displaced families return to their homes in al-Haul town in the eastern countryside of Hasaka, local activists said. Mohamed al-Khatuni told Zaman al-Wasl that PYD had allowed 50 families to return to their homes...

Writing by Malek Eqab; Translation by Rana Abdul  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful air force Division 22 is the newly in-charge army unit for bombing the stricken city of Aleppo, source told Zaman al-Wasl as regime's devastating campaign killed 250 people and reduced huge parts of the city to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The United States is working on "specific initiatives" to reduce the violence in Syria and sees stopping the bloodshed in Aleppo as a top priority, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Saturday. In a statement detailing calls Secretary of State John Kerry has made...

The U.S. on Friday strongly condemned a video that shows the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, Democratic Union Party's (PYD), parade with corpses of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in Afrin, Syria. "While we can't authenticate it 100 percent, we, without hesitation, strongly condemn this...

Russia will not ask the Syrian regime to halt air raids on the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, because it believes they are helping to combat jihadist groups, Moscow's foreign ministry said Saturday. "No, we are not going to put pressure on (Damascus) because one must understand that the situation...

A suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen at a checkpoint in Syria's divided northeastern city of Qamishli Saturday, police said. Four others were wounded in the attack on the city's demarcation line, according to Jowan Ibrahim, the commander of the Kurdish police known as the Asayish....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air force backed by Russian jets on Saturday have stepped up its aerial bombing on rebel-held Aleppo city, killing 7 civilians in al-Neirab and Bustan al-Qasr neighborhoods, local activists said. The devastating air strikes have also hit most neighborhoods of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rawan Qaddah has escaped from regime detention in a complicated operation and has reached Turkey, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Qaddah, 18, who once appeared on regime TV on Sep 23, 2013, claiming 'marriage jihad' with rebels, had arrived in Turkey, after breaking out from her...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The fighting between rebels and an ISIS-linked groups in the southern province of Daraa has affected farmers lives and made decline in the agricultural production, local activists said. The clashes that erupted last month between the southern Front, Nusra...

Government aircraft pounded rebel areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, which was left out of a deal to "freeze" fighting from Saturday despite international outrage over renewed violence. Shelling and air raids in Aleppo over the past week have killed more than 230 civilians and pushed a...

(Zaman Al Was-Special)- Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD) placed on one of the strongest trucks in the world dozens of rebel fighters' bodies on Thursday, exhibiting them in the streets of the northern city of Efrin near Aleppo, Such a blatant abuse of human rights that was highly rebuked...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source said Russian Su-24 warplane whose carried out the deadly air strikes on Aleppo's hospital late on Wednesday that left 50 people dead, including medics, children and doctors. The Russian night-attack jet hit Al-Quds field hospital in rebel-held Aleppo with two...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Some of the European Union member states have announced their will to provide aid and technical support to the Syrian government, such a move  has incited worries of opposition figures who say its a sneaky way to restore relationships with...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy clashes erupted on Friday between rebels and regime forces in Jabal al-Akrad region in the coastal province of Latakia, activists said as regime declared a brief truce in the northern countryside. Activist Abdul-Rahman Lathqani told Zaman...

Syria declared brief local truces near Damascus and in one province on Friday but made no mention of halting combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge in fighting the United Nations said showed "monstrous disregard" for civilian lives. The new "regime of calm", to begin from 1:00...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo and shelling of government-held areas of the city resumed on Friday, after a brief dawn lull following seven days of violence, a war monitor, a civil defense worker and Syrian state media said. At least seven people died in air strikes...