(Zaman Al Wasl)- A humanitarian aid convoys reached two besieged towns by the Syrian regime in central Homs province, local reporter said on Sunday. 30 trucks loaded by food and medicine entered al-Dar al-Kabira and al-Ghanto towns west of Homs on Saturday as more aid to be delivered to...

Syrian rebels and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have mounted an offensive against Syrian government forces and on Saturday took a strategic hill south of Aleppo from government control, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the offensive began...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A child killed and others injured during Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD)-led Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance disperse of a set-in in which hundreds of displaced participated including women and children on Saturday protesting the alliance preventing the displaced...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Gazelle helicopters were strongly present during Russian officers leading Assad forces offensive on Palmyra. The helicopters played a crucial role in destroying vehicles of ISIS and its forticiations and advance points by using missiles from hot type. The Gazelle helicopter...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian rebels on Saturday launched a surprise attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northern countryside of coastal Latakia province, killing at least 25 soldiers, activists said. Media activist “Abdul Rahman al-Lazqani”said revolutionaries’ factions...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State-linked groups launched new attacks on Free Syria Army in southern Daraa province and border territory with Jordan on Saturday, activists said. The ISIS fighters launched attack to capture ground in Allajat region northeast of Daraa city from FSA as fellow...

 Syria's partial cease-fire is unraveling, as fierce fighting between pro-government forces and opposition fighters, including members of the al-Qaida affiliated Nusra Front, erupted Saturday outside the country's second largest city of Aleppo. At least 25 pro-government fighters died in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 regime army soldiers killed on Saturday in an ambush set by the powerful Islam Army in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, group's media accounts said. Regime forces backed by allied militias waged major offensive on Saturday from four axis to make advances in...

Syrian troops found a mass grave containing around 40 bodies in Palmyra city, captured from Islamic State last Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday. SANA said the grave, which contained many women and children, was in the north-eastern edge of Palmyra. Some of...

The Syrian opposition is not optimistic about upcoming peace talks in Geneva because there is no international will for a political transition, opposition member Riad Hijab told Al Araby Al Jadid television late on Friday. The Syrian opposition has consistently said that it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  The political inmates of Suwayda central prison southern Syria protested Friday against the successive violations of Bashar al-Assad’s cousin who spends a life-imprisonment sentence over pillaging and robbery. One of the political inmates was insulted and beaten by...

The U.S. administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria as it looks to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials, with direct knowledge of the proposal's...

HASAKA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes renewed between Islamic State and  Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday in areas on the borders of Deir ez-Zor province west to Markada town in the southern countryside of Hasaka. Kurdish sources mentioned that US backed “Syria Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground from Islamic State fighters in the northern countryside of Aleppo after fierce fighting left 15 ISIS militants killed, local activist said Friday. Activist Omar al-Shamali told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had killed 15 ISIS fighters in Tal Battal...

The U.S. military said on Friday it had started training "dozens" of Syrian opposition fighters to battle the Islamic State as part of a revamped program that aims to avoid mistakes that doomed its first training effort in Turkey last year. U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a phone call on Friday in which they discussed steps needed to strengthen the ceasefire in the Syrian war, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.

(Zaman Al Wals)- Nine rebel factions operating in northern Aleppo province merged Thursday in one armed group, such a move aims to increase the effectivity of the brigades and to facilitate a unified military work, according to statement posted online. The political office of the newly-formed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that the fate of Mihrac Ural, head of the ‘Syrian Resistance Committees’ militant group, is still unknown and death news can not be confirmed. Senior commanders of the group, which voices hostility to Turkey, said they had lost contact...

The death toll from air strikes in the Deir al-Asafir district southeast of Damascus has risen to 33, mostly women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The strikes on Thursday, which the Observatory said were carried out by Syrian...

At least 21 Islamic State members were killed in air strikes in Syria's eastern city of Deir al-Zor, a monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear which country's air force carried out the strikes on an Islamic State base in...