President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had put the militant group on the defensive, shrinking its territory and striking key leaders. "We have momentum and we intend to keep that momentum," Obama told reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Parts of northern Hasaka province have been hit with flooding in the past two days, forcing evacuations and causing damage in houses and bridges, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Activists Omar al-Shami said people of Tel al-Shayer, Haddaj and al-Tarraf villages have been...

Syria's parliamentary elections on Wednesday are a "sham" organized by "an oppressive regime," France's foreign ministry said, adding that viable elections could only take place after a political transition and new constitution. "France denounces this sham of an election organized by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplane staged an air strike on a field hospital in Hama province, killing doctor and wounding medics. The strike hit al-Maghara hospital, also known as the cave, in Kafr Zeita town in northern countryside of Hama by vacuum missiles, killing doctor Hassan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State and Nusra Front battling in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus have made a prisoner swap early Wednesday, Zaman's local reporter said. As clashes enters the seventh day in the Palestinian camp, Nusra Front has delivered ISIS two wounded fighters...

Syrians voted in a parliamentary election in government-held areas of the country on Wednesday in what voters called a show of support for President Bashar al-Assad, who is holding the poll in defiance of opponents seeking to oust him. The election is going ahead independently of a U.N.-led...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Top Saudi Jihadist fighting in northern Aleppo province said in video statement that scores of Iran's paramilitary militias have been killed in the ongoing clashes of Tallet al-Eis town and neighboring hilltops in the southern countryside. Sheikh Abdullah al-Mouhaisni, Shariah...

Reporting by Hussein Al Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Round three of Geneva talks to start on Wednesday, as the Kurdish National Council attends seeking recognition of Kurds’ rights in the new constitution. The opposition's High Negotiations Committee arrived Tuesday to...

Reporting by Mohamed Yateem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) - At least 6 civilians have been injured due to stray bullets in rally set for planned parliamentary elections in the city of Hama, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Suhail al-Hamwi mentioned that some persons have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian analyst Ahmad Dayrousi instilled doubts of the fate of Syrian militia leader Mihrac Ural. The writer questioned the regime reservation over sharing information about Mirac and the secret behind his sudden disappearance. Dayrousi who takes pride in Ural’s battles against...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted Tuesday regime's attack on al-Eis town and neighboring hilltops in the southern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. The clashes to capture the strategic al-Eis town renewed early Tuesday as regime forces and its allied Shiite militias and fighters...

Two Russian military pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed near the central Syrian city of Homs, the defence ministry said on Tuesday (April 12), adding that the aircraft had not been under fire. "Two crew members died," the defence ministry said in a statement. The crash of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Amid ambiguity of al-Badiya Cement workers’ fate who were kidnapped last week by the Islamic State near Dumeir town eastern Damascus, a body of an engineer killed by ISIS was delivered to his family and a new statement issued over the abductees. The case of kidnapped workers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced first batch of graduates’ fighters on Sunday following training in one SDF camp in countryside of Qamishli in Hasaka Governorate. Ronahi TV Channel, spokesperson of Democratic Union Party self-administration said 200 fighters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians killed and 10 wounded on Monday in Syrian regime air strikes on the embattled northern countryside of Homs, local activists said. The aerial bombing targeted towns of Talbiseh, Tier Maala, al-Quneitra, Aidon and al-Hola. In the past 24 hours, Regime...

The UN has carried out its first successful humanitarian airdrop in Syria, the organization said Monday. On Sunday, food packages from the World Food Program (WFP) were parachuted to the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, where 200,000 civilians have been besieged by Daesh forces since March 2014....

Rockets from Syria have landed inside Turkey's southeastern border town of Kilis, injuring several people, security sources and privately owned Dogan News agency said on Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the rockets came from Islamic State-controlled Syria. Kilis,...

Four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Syria, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, only a week after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war there. Tehran is Assad's main regional ally and has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Regime forces to launch major offensive on rebel-held areas in northern Aleppo province that will be completely led by Russia, activists and rebel commanders said. Bashar al-Assad's Prime Minister, Wael al Halqi, said in a meeting with Russian parliamentarians, “We,...

The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force said five strikes in Syria, four of them near Mar'a, hit tactical...