(Zaman Al Wasl)- Resentment and fury have reached momentum in government-held areas of Hama province due to countless abuses of pro-regime paramilitary group, security source told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Residents of the predominantly Alawite villages in the western countryside say NDF...

Syria peace talks in Geneva will resume on May 10, Russia's RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying on Wendesday. He was refferring to U.N. special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura who announced that, RIA said. The Syrian government said on...

The Sharia Court in Homs province gave prominent rebel commander Abdul Baset al-Sarout a week's notice to surrender himself to one of Islamic courts, otherwise will be sentenced in absentia over fighting with the Islamic State.   The notice stated, “following review of the lawsuit no...

Writing by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Municipality of Latakia has launched a campaign claimed aiming to clean the city from non licensed stalls in streets, but in reality they targeted the stalls of poor people only, leaving regime’s loyalists’ and...

Attacks by government forces and rebels killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in the last 24 hours in Aleppo, a city seeing some of the worst of a renewed escalation in the Syrian war, a monitoring group said. Intensified fighting has all but destroyed a partial ceasefire that...

A Syrian opposition group tolerated by President Bashar Assad's regime said Tuesday it had asked the UN to merge all opposition factions into one delegation at the next round of peace talks. The comments came from Syria's former deputy premier Qadri Jamil, who was sacked by Assad in 2013 and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five members of the Civil Defense Corps were killed on Monday in regime air strike on northern Aleppo province, media center said. The devastating strike hit the center of the voluntary group in Atareb town, destroying most of the rescue equipment and vehicles according to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiations committee of the al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city has refused regime's offer to free 300 detainees, demanding release of 1500 people held in Sednaya military prison, source said Monday. A U.N.-mediated deal reached last December stated that all detainees of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian army defector Abdul Hamid Zakaria is still alive and has not been killed in Aleppo battles, source said as activists circulate news of Zakariya's death in clashes with regime forces. The man who had been mourned was a relative of Zakaria who had the same name...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people have been wounded in regime air strikes on a refugee camp near the Turkish border, local activist said. Abdulrahman al-Lazqani, media activist, said regime drone had targeted al-Zouf camp near the town of Jisr al-Shughour with 6 rockets, leaving women and...

 At least 60 people have been killed in three days of fighting in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as violence continues to escalate. Seven children and 10 women were among those killed in a series of air strikes by the government side and...

Turkey's military said it destroyed Islamic State's missile launcher in Syria some 20 kms from the border town of Kilis which has been repeatedly his by rockets from the border, Turkish television stations reported. They said eight militants were killed in the attack. The missile launcher was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A child was killed in Islamic State's missile attack on a U.S.-backed militia in the southern countryside of Hasak province, activists said. Activist Omar al-Shami said a family memebrs were killed the Isis Grad missile in Sarab village east of al-Shadadi town. Isis has also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded in a regime-held suburb of the capital Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozen, activists said. The explosives-laden car detonated near a checkpoint for Shiite militants in the Iran-dominated town of Sayyidah Zaynab (7 miles) 10 km south of...

President Barack Obama will announce on Monday he plans to send as many as 250 additional U.S. troops to Syria, a sharp increase in the American presence working with local Syrian forces fighting Islamic State militants, U.S. officials said. The deployment, which will increase U.S. forces in...

 Air strikes and shelling pounded Aleppo for a third straight day on Sunday, killing two young siblings and at least 24 others in Syria's largest city and former commercial capital. The northern city has been bitterly contested between insurgents and government forces since 2012....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 people, including three children, were killed and 40 others wounded on Sunday in regime air strikes on al-Houla region in central province of Homs, local activists said. Regime forces have stepped up its aerial and ground campaign on northern countryside of Homs...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The conflict between the regime forces and Democratic Union Party (PYD) has come after a ceasefire deal reached on Saturday between both sides to stop tension in Qamishli city north of Hasaka province. The agreement resulted from intensive...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two to three cases weekly of abduction of women and children and robbery in central Hama city, local activists said. Activist Mueed al-Midani confirmed that al-Qusur neighborhood witnesses daily abduction of women and children even during the day time. The kidnap operations...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A child was killed and five injured in a bomb attack in Tarmaneen Camp in northern countryside of Aleppo on Sunday, local activists said. The bombs, likely handmade, caused a fire in several tents, according to the activists. Syrian Civil Defense (SCD) Directorate in Aleppo...