(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters on Friday have taken new ground from an Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa as clashes enter its third week in the southern province, activists said. The moderate FSA fighters have recaptured the town of Tsail from the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has complied with rebels’ demands to ease the siege imposed the northeastern countryside of Homs province in order to get back the water supplies to loyal areas, local reporter said Friday. Ceasing bombardment on civilians, allow...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source reported that The kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has arrested Saleh al-Jallad, Head of the Air Force Intelligence in Hasaka, and his son, amid conditions indicate of possible conflict between the regime and (YPG) which...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Thursday launched an attack on Syrian regime’s pastions in the city of Deir Ezzor and the military airport in Eastern countryside, then fighting broke out at many fronts led to several death from both sides. Abo Abdul Rahman...

Turkey is investigating Russian claims that Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq have profited from smuggling stolen antiquities through its territory, but it believes the charges are politically motivated, a Turkish official said on Thursday. Russia's ambassador to the...

Migrants held on the Greek islands Lesbos and Chios live in "appalling" conditions with little access to legal aid or information about their fate under a European Union agreement that will send some back to Turkey, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Under a deal between...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters on Thursday have recaptured Sahm al-Goaln town from Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa as clashes enter its third week in the southern province, activists said. The Yramouk Martyrs Brigade and key ally al-Muthanna Movement...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- ISIS fighters have kidnapped 300 cement workers in an area northeast of Damascus where the militants launched an assault against government forces this week, Syrian state television said Thursday. The workers and contractors of Al Badia Cement company were taken from...

U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday he would travel to Damascus and Tehran and meet other regional officials to seek a common understanding on Syria's political transition, delaying the start of a round of peace talks by two days. De Mistura said he had already...

The chairman of a U.N. humanitarian taskforce on Syria said on Thursday he was disappointed by a slowdown in aid access, largely because of blockages by government-backed forces, but he hoped there would be a major evacuation from four towns. Jan Egeland said the evacuation was...

France blamed Syria's government on Thursday for a breakdown in a truce and preventing an improvement in the humanitarian situation, the foreign ministry's spokesman said. "It (France) condemns the violations of the cessation of hostilities for which the regime is responsible...

Syrian rebels seized control Thursday of ISIS’s main supply route to Turkey, a monitor said. “Rebel factions and Islamist took control of the northeast of Al-Rai,” a town occupied by ISIS on the border between Syria and Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “This is the main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has increased its military presence in Hmeymim air base with attack helicopters deployed for night operations and complicated weather conditions in the last few days, close source to regime said. The source refused to disclose his name said new Russian deployed Mi-28...

U.S. officials are discussing with the Turkish military and government how the moderate Syrian opposition can push Islamic State farther east in Syria, Washington's ambassador to Ankara said on Thursday. "We have had some progress in recent weeks as these groups pushed further...

Displaced residents of the famed Syrian city of Palmyra, recently recaptured by the army, will begin returning to their homes at the weekend, a government official told AFP Thursday. Syria's armed forces recaptured Palmyra and the adjacent world-famous ruins from the ISIS on March 27, ending...

As many as three people were wounded when rocket fire from an Islamic State-controlled area in northern Syria entered Turkish territory, striking the border town of Kilis on Thursday, security sources. The artillery hit a house in the town center, they said. Another police source...

Russian aircraft have hit positions of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front near the Syrian city of Aleppo, thwarting an attempted offensive, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. It also said that up to 1,500 militants controlled by the Nusra Front (Jabhat...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel special task force operating in the embattled Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus said its had killed the personal guard of Bashar al-Assad's wife, according to video statement posted online. The rebel group said the Colonel Husam Abboud Shaleesh was killed on...

Islamic State fighters launched attacks on government-held areas near Damascus overnight on Tuesday in an apparent response to the group's loss of ground elsewhere in Syria. The jihadist group said in a statement it had attacked the Tishrin power station 50 km (30 miles)...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- The Syrian regime army and its allies launched a big attack overnight on rebels south of Aleppo, described as the fiercest regime assault in the area since a cessation of hostilities agreement came into effect in February. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a...