(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ten civilians killed in the U.S.-led air strikes on the western countryside of Hasakah, local activists said Wednesday . The strikes have targeted a vehicle carrying civilians were heading a funeral in the village of Jayer west of Hasakah city. In the southern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and Russian warplanes have renewed aerial and ground attacks on the Turkmen-dominated village of Harbanfaseh town in Hama province, residents said on Wednesday. Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen villages in the...

Turkey does not intend to stop shelling Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in response to cross-border fire, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding the United States should decide whether to back Turkey or the Kurdish insurgents. The rapid of advance of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters,...

The Russian foreign ministry said Russian and U.S. military officials will take part in the first meeting on Friday of a working group to discuss implementation of a ceasefire in Syria, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. Russian Deputy Foreign Ministry Gennady Gatilov added...

Turkey wants a secure strip of territory 10 km (6.2 miles) deep on the Syrian side of its border, including the town of Azaz, to prevent attempts to "change the demographic structure" of the area, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan said Wednesday. Syrian government forces backed by Russian...

The Syrian UN envoy said Tuesday that terrorist organization PKK's Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), enjoys the support of not only the U.S. but also the Assad regime. "These Syrian Kurds supported by the American administration are also supported by the Syrian government,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes renewed between Syria's rebels and a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs in northern Aleppo province as Russia extends its aerial bombing after bloody day left 50 people dead. Rebels of al-Hulk neighborhood on Tuesday have taken captive 6 fighters operating in...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) representative Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa said there have been about 400 attacks on hospitals that killed some 700 health care workers during the crisis in Syria, according to a doctors Without Borders (MSF) representative. Targeting these hospitals in Syria is a clear...

The Syrian government used toxic gas eight times over a five-month period in different areas of Syria, a group that monitors the conflict said Tuesday. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said gas had been used between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31 last year, mostly in Idlib, the...

Turkey called on Tuesday for Russia’s airstrikes on civilians and hospitals in Syria to be debated at the UN Security Council. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also called on Russia and the U.S. - both permanent members of the council - to show their support for peace by enforced a no-fly...

Saudi Arabia participated in air strikes as part of a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State militants over the weekend, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman said on Tuesday. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who has been under pressure to shore up support from Sunni Arab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 people have killed and dozens wounded in Russian airstrikes on an ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasakah as regime army and Kurdish militants launch joint attack on the strategic town. The deadly Russian air strikes have targeted the main bakery of...

The U.N. Syria envoy met Syria's foreign minister on Monday and discussed a cessation of hostilities, a resumption of peace talks this month, and the need for "unhindered" delivery of humanitarian aid to areas besieged by all parties, a U.N. spokesman said. Staffan de Mistura...

Turkish artillery has returned fire "in kind" into Syria, military sources said on Tuesday, marking the fourth straight day of shelling by the Turkish military. Turkey on Monday warned Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine rebel groups operating in northern Aleppo province pledged allegiance to Hashim Al-Sheikh, the former leader of Ahrar al-Sham movement on Monday as rebels face the risk of collapse and losing their strongholds to favor of regime forces and U.S.-backed Kurdish forces....

The Kurdish-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the town of Tal Rifaat on Monday, seizing territory close to the Turkish border and pushing east towards Islamic State-held territory, conflict monitors said. The move means the SDF - which include the Kurdish YPG...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Regime forces in the city of Deir Ezzor have started moving some families of police forces and officers on planes to Damascus and the coastal region while it prevented other people from leaving areas under its control. An activist explained...

 Turkish forces shelled Kurdish fighters in northern Syria for a third day Monday but failed to stop their advance, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitor said Turkish troops were shelling the road to the west of the town of Tal Rifaat, which has been a key...

Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border. An offensive...

Syrian opposition forces on Sunday repelled an attack by the YPG -- the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the terrorist PKK group’s Syrian affiliate -- in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. YPG units attacked parts of western Aleppo at dawn following fierce Russian aerial...