The United States said on Thursday it was concerned about reports that Russia is moving more military equipment into Syria to bolster President Bashar al-Assad, with a truce in tatters and peace talks in meltdown. A U.S. official separately said Russia has been repositioning...

Syria's prime minister and foreign minister on Thursday accused European and regional powers of supporting terrorists and fuelling fighting in the country, in a defiant tone from Damascus after a halt to peace talks this week. Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki said Saudi Arabia,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A fierce fighting erupted Thursday between Kurdish PYD militia and regime's paramilitary wing the National Defense Forces in northern Qamishli city, activists and a monitor said. Despite regime's aerial bombing on Kurdish areas, a senior official from Damascus has arrived in...

Reporting by Abdulsalam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown assailants killed late on Wednesday a senior commander in the  First Coastal Division in Latakia province amid doubts that his killing is related to the death of an ISIS jihadist in Turkish prison. Abo...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fadwa Mahmoud, wife of the veteran opposition figure Abdul Aziz al-Khayir who was abaducted with two fellows four years ago by regime security, said Husband's abduction was due to not having a consensual Alwaite figure in Syria. Fadwa Mahmoud explained the details of her...

Syria's fragile peace talks might not resume for at least a year if they are abandoned now, a senior Western diplomat warned on Wednesday, as the opposition urged more military support for rebels after declaring a truce was over. Intense fighting has left Syria's partial ceasefire...

(The New York Times)- The leader of a Western-backed rescue organization that searches for survivors of bombings in Syria was denied entry into the United States this week, where he was to receive an award recognizing his contributions to humanitarian relief. Raed Saleh, the head of the Syria...

The humanitarian evacuation of 250 people from two Syrian towns besieged by pro-government forces and another 250 from two towns blocked off by rebels began on Wednesday, coordinated by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. The towns blockaded by pro-government forces are Zabadani and...

The delegation head of Bashar al-Assad regime has said peace talks in Geneva would continue despite the Syrian opposition’s decision to pull out of the current round. The regime delegation led by Bashar Jaafari met with UN Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy Ezzeddin Ramzy at the UN Office in Geneva on...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A member of the Syrian National Coalition and representative of the Kurdish National Council said in a conference in Geneva that the unfairness of the Democratic Union Party PYD is affecting both Arabs and Kurds....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted an ISIS attack on Marea town in northern Aleppo province early Wednesday, killing at least 15 militants, local reporter said. Rebels of 'Hor Kilis Operations Room' have also destroyed three armored vehicles for ISIS near Marea. In it's turn, regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person killed and two injured on Tuesday in Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) raid on Aneeq al-Hawa Village in Hasaka Province, local activist said. The victim’s relative who preferred anonymity told Zaman al-Wasl, his cousin Mohamed Yaseen al-Kati’ was killed by PYD...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The recent attack by regime forces to recapture al-Kabaneh village, the highest point in Latakia province, has been failed for the11th time in seven months. The strategic al-Kabaneh is a cross point between Hama, Idlib and Latakia Provinces. The regime lost 200 soldiers...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday insisted that Syria peace talks in Geneva were "not frozen" as he slammed main opposition chiefs for walking out. Lavrov said that while the main opposition High Negotiations Committee has announced it is putting its participation on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people killed in the embattled northern countryside of Homs on Tuesday as regime forces step up aerial and ground attacks on rebel-held areas since first of April, local reporter said. Regime war planes have conducted 12 raids on Taldo, Tal Zahab and al-Tyba al-Gharbiya...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria regime's third deadly air strike on Tuesday has killed 9 people in eastern suburb of Damascus as death toll of Idlib's markets rises to 48 people, activists said. The deliberate air strike on a crowded street in Bala town has left 9 people dead, mostly a family members...

The leader of the Syrian opposition’s delegation to peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday called for the international community to enforce the truce that has broken down across large parts of the country. Riad Hijab, chief coordinator for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), declared that the...

Three rockets hit the southeastern Turkish town of Kilis near the Syrian border Tuesday, security sources said, the second straight day the town has come under fire. Kilis, which is just across the border from an ISIS-controlled region of Syria, has been hit by repeated rocket fire in recent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 57 civilians have been killed on Tuesday in regime air strikes on two marketplaces in northern Idlib province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. A least 42 people have been killed and dozens more people wounded in Maaret Nu'man town when regime's warplanes...

Writing by Abdulsalam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces jave continuted its shelling on rebel-held areas in Latakia province in a flagrant violation to the U.S.-engineered ceasefire deal seven weeks ago amid an international silence and obvious hesitation of rebels to respond...