President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia could scale up its military presence in Syria again within hours and would still bomb terrorist groups there despite a partial draw-down of forces ordered after military successes. Speaking in one of the Kremlin's grandest...

The U.N. envoy for Syria says significant gaps remain between the sides taking part in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva. Staffan de Mistura emerged Thursday from the fourth day of talks to tell reporters that "the distance between the two sides is large." De Mistura is shuttling...

A U.N. official in Syria says that despite the Russian troops' drawdown, the mission is looking to for continued help from Russia on aid deliveries in the war-torn country. Jan Egeland, supervisor of U.N. humanitarian aid shipments, says he hopes Russia will remain as...

The Syrian regime and its opponents have rejected a declaration by Syrian Kurds of a federal region in northern Syria. A statement issued by the Syrian Foreign Ministry says the declaration made in the town of Rmeilan in Syria's Hassakeh province Thursday is unconstitutional and worthless. It...

Russia will complete the withdrawal of the bulk of its forces from Syria before the end of the week, a top Russian general suggested in an interview published Thursday. "I think this will be over very quickly. Within the time-frame determined by (the president) and the defense minister. Today...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The 5th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution comes in conjunction with many calls to implement federalism in self-administrated regions under the sponsorship of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The flag of the Syrian Revolution was banned in these regions as well...

 The United Kingdom is not sure that Russia's announced pullout from Syria is genuine, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told reporters Wednesday in Baghdad. "If it turns out to be a genuine pullout – and we don't know that," he said of Russia's announcement that it would withdraw some of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has on Monday, the first day of the second round of Geneva3 talks to resolve the Syrian crisis, suddenly announced decision of withdrawing the majority of its forces from Syria the very next day, according to President Vladimir Putin and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish internal security forces arrested 60 members of National Defense Forces, a pro-regime militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli Wednesday, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network...

Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria were expected to imminently declare a federal system, a move likely to further complicate peace talks in Geneva on ending more than five years of war. Russia pulled more warplanes out of Syria, a new delivery of humanitarian aid reached...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has withdrawn most heavy vehilces in Jebt Beit Ridha camp in Hama province late on Tuesday in an implement to the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of a partial withdrawal from Syria, local monitor told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Sutaif al-Khatabbi, director of Observatory...

Fresh humanitarian aid reached some 13,000 families in northern Aleppo province as a convoy of 26 trucks entered areas hit by recent fighting, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. The delivery by the Syrian Red Crescent to towns including Azaz, Afrin and Tal Rifaat was the largest in the area for...

U.S. administration officials on Tuesday remained cautious about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial withdrawal from Syria. "The earliest indications are that the Russians are following through, but it’s still too early to determine on this point what impact it will...

Two Syrian women took a hidden camera through the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to document their life under ISIS rule, knowing they faced execution should they be discovered, according to CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, which commissioned the video. Fully covered and wearing face veils,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of rallies took place in rebel-held territories across the war-torn country, marking the fifth anniversary of the Syrian revolution. People who waved the uprising flags asserted their 5-year-old demand, 'The People Want to Bring Down The Regime,' The unprecedented...

Russian helicopters pounded jihadist positions around the ancient city of Palmyra on Tuesday as Syrian troops pressed a ground advance, a monitoring group said. "Russian helicopters and warplanes, that are likely Russian, are bombarding Islamic State group positions...

Syrian opposition says Russia withdrawal could lead to end of conflict, spokesperson said. Syria's opposition are "not against" direct talks with the country's government, RIA news agency quoted Salim al-Muslat, spokesman for the main Syrian opposition alliance in Geneva, as saying on...

Airstrikes by 11 Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq Monday are believed to have killed 45 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday. The military said the strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets, in the Qandil mountain area where the PKK has its main bases, also...

Senior Islamic State operative Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was wounded in a U.S. air strike last week in Syria, has died, CNN reported on Monday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen and described by the Pentagon as the group's "minister of war," was...

President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria will start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war. Syria rejected any...