(Zaman Al Wasl)- Red color is sweeping the Syrian Facebook as the stricken city of Aleppo is being under brutal ground and aerial campaign by regime forces and Russian jets. Social media activists have called on all Facebookers to change their profile photo into red in solidarity with Aleppo....

The deployment of U.S. special forces to Syria without coordination with Damascus violates Syria's sovereignty, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday.

The Syrian Army is planning offensives against the cities of Deir al-Zor and Raqqa with the support of the Russian Air Force, RIA news agency quoted Alexei Borodavkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, as saying on Friday.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo's Sharia Council has suspended all Friday Prayers in mosques and public squares amid high concerns of being hit by regime warplanes, according to statement posted online. About 250 civilians have been killed this week, nearly half of them around Aleppo. 50...

The U.S. military on Thursday retreated from a top general's claim this week that the number of foreign fighters joining Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has plummeted by as much as 90 percent. Air Force Major General Peter Gersten, deputy commander for operations and intelligence in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 people have been killed in Homs province during two months of fragile ceasefire deal that was engineered by U.S. and Russia, local monitor said. Activists of Talbiseh Mubasher, local monitoring group, said 100 people were also wounded in the northern countryside of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Army on Thursday attacked Syrian refuggees' houses in border town of Arsal, wounding 3 children and arresting their father, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The army raid with hand grenades and guns resulted in injuring three siblings: Mostafa...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces have buried 19 soldiers in Homs city this week said they were killed by Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, according to activists. The slain fighters who were buried in al-Ferdous cemetery had not been identified, source said. Al-Ferdous cemetery has...

The situation in Aleppo is "catastrophic" after deadly overnight air strikes on a hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city, and aid deliveries to millions of Syrians are in jeopardy, the United Nations said on Thursday. An aid convoy was hit by a mortar round near Homs this week while...

The Turkish military returned fire on Islamic State positions in northern Syria on Thursday, killing 11 members of the militant group, military sources said. The military returned fire after its artillery near the border town of Karkamis was hit by mortars, the sources said.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime Facebook group published on Thursday news of Russian soldiers fighting along the regime in recent combats in Kurds and Turkmen mountains in Latakia province. Media activists and military leaders in Latakia countryside documented Russian officers leading most regime...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new round of deadly air strikes on Aleppo city has killed seven people in al-Kallaseh neighborhood on Thursday, activists said in an initial death toll. Aleppo Media Center said women and children were among the casualties. Late on Wednesday, about 30 people were...

A military buildup in northern Syria, coupled with heavy fighting and mounting civilian casualties, spells the end of a cease-fire that for two months brought some relief to a war-weary country. The renewed violence is ushering in what could be an even more ruinous chapter in the 5-year-old...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior leader of pro-regime Syrian National Defense (NDF) was killed in ambiguous circumstances near Damascus, source said Thursday. Fida Nazmi Budur, 33, was NDF leader of Syria's southern region where he gains notorious fame over looting and robbery. Nazmi's body was buried...

The last paediatrician in Aleppo has been killed in an airstrike believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime. Reports from the besieged city said Dr Wassim was among 14 people killed when jets attacked the Al Quds hospital in Syria. The airstrike, which destroyed the hospital,...

The Kurdish government in Iraq has dealt a blow to Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria by keeping the border closed for more than one month, an economic and political setback for the Syrian region as it plans for wider autonomy. The Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria believes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior commander in powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement was killed on Wednesday in an explosive device detonated near his car in northern Idlib province, local sources said. The attack targeted Saud al-Assaf, the military commander of Ansar al-Haq brigade, key unit in Ahrar...

The United Nations said on Wednesday no date had been set for the next round of Syria peace talks, contradicting a report quoting Russia's deputy foreign minister as saying talks would resume in Geneva on May 10. U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura is struggling to keep the peace process...

Russia wants to know more details about U.S. plans to bolster its special forces in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. President Barack Obama announced on Monday the biggest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since its civil war began. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said it had killed senior Islamic State commander in northern countryside of Homs province. Rafed Taha was killed with his comrade Aamer al-Aswad in the northern countryside, Nusra said in statement, without revealing when or where his...