(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime is massing troops and fighters from allied Shiite militias in Joreen camp in Ghab Plain, a move seeks to launch major offensive on rebels in Hama province, a military source said. The army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the planned offensive to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Eqtsad )- Large number of Kwashiorkor cases, a form of severe malnutrition, have been diagnosed in the town of Madaya in rural Damascus after long and severe siege forced by the Syrian regime and other sectarian militias. Dr. mohammed Darwish confirmed that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Fatah Army Islamist group arrested late on Wednesday 12 militants in northern Idlib province said they carried out a series of assassinations and abductions, field sources said. The cell that was active in Ariha town is belonging to Jaish al-Thuwar, a key unit in the...

Russian military advisers played a direct role in planning the operation to liberate the Syrian city of Palmyra from the Islamic State militants, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Russian warplanes carried out a total of around 500 sorties, hitting more than 2,000 Islamic State...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 people have been killed on Thursday in regime air strikes on hospital and school in Deir al-Asafir town in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus, local Civil Defense spokesman said.

First units of Russian demining experts have arrived in Syria to demine the historic part of the ancient city of Palmyra, Russian news agencies quoted the Defence Ministry as saying on Thursday.

A new report says the United Nations and partners delivered badly needed medical and food supplies to about 150,000 people in besieged areas of Syria after a cease-fire that started last month led to a drop-off in fighting. U.N. convoys delivered supplies to people in 10 of 18 areas under...

The Syrian opposition said on Wednesday Syria needs a transitional ruling body with full executive powers and not a participatory government under President Bashar al-Assad, responding to comments made by Assad to Russian state media. "The government, whether it's new or old,...

President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree on a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in office. Assad, bolstered by military victory in the...

Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement officially claims its responsibility  for killing "Mihrac Ural" the commander of the so-called "committees of the Syrian resistance and a Lwa’ Iskenderun" The first person who is responsible for the massacre of al-Bayda in Banias, Syria, and accused of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- 25 Civil Defense workers have finished a training course on Tuesday in the town of Jisr al-Shughour in northern Idlib province, press officer said. The town's Civil Defense center has made 14 training courses since January 2016, Ahmed al-Sheikho said.   The...

When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission's main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port. Instead, three days after...

Syrian army successes will help accelerate a political settlement to the country's civil war, President Bashar al-Assad said, because they weaken the position of international opponents who he accused of hindering any agreement. In an interview published as government forces,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out air strikes on northern Idlib province on Tuesday, killing a child and wounded 6 people, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. A pupil has lost his life in an air strike hit his school in al-Kastan village near Jisr al-Shughour town, while six...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Four Mi-28NE “Night Hunter” helicopters left Hmeymim airbase in Latakia city for T-4 and al-Shuairat airbases eastern Homs province to back regime in its major military campaign against Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The modern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted an attack launched by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing 10 fighters and destroying a tank, opposition accounts said. The YPG-led alliance of Kurdish and Arab factions made rapid advances...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Arab tribes have always been a winning card for any party wanted to control the Eastern region and Aljazeera in Syria. Russia is now and after the truce of cessation of hostilities tying to obtain the trust of Arab tribes, especially they are...

Two people were shot dead and others injured on Monday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon after a dispute between rival political groups triggered bursts of gunfire, Reuters witnesses said. Abdallah Qablawi, a member of the mainstream Palestinian faction Fatah, was...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched a surprise attack on an army battalion near T-4 military airport in Homs province, killing at least 23 soldiers, activists and group's media wing said Monday. Aamaq, ISIS news agency, said fighters of the radical group have killed at least...

Fighting between Islamic State and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front spread from Syria into Lebanon's northern Bekaa Valley region on Monday, a security source and the state news agency said. Eighteen Nusra Front members were killed and six were taken prisoner during the clashes,...