(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters killed 4 regime army officers in an attack on Kuweires airbase in northern Aleppo province which was under rebels and ISIS siege for almost three years, activists said Saturday. State-run media ignored the attack that left four Alawite officers dead,...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the Russian ambassador after a Russian jet violated Turkey's airspace on Friday, despite several warnings. A Foreign Ministry statement on Saturday said the plane was warned in Russian and in English before entering Turkey's airspace. The...

A delegation from Syria's main opposition group flew to Geneva on Saturday to assess whether to join Damascus government officials in United Nations-brokered peace talks, an opposition representative said. The 17-strong team included the head of the Saudi-backed Higher Negotiation Committee...

A Syrian insurgent group said on Friday it had merged with a number of other rebel groups around Aleppo province to become a stronger fighting force in the country's five-year-old civil war. The group Failaq al-Sham, or Sham Legion, said on its Twitter feed it had merged with eight other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition will join peace talks that have opened in Geneva Friday after assurances from U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the United Nations that demands to release the detainees and to stop the bombing will be addressed in the preliminary negotiations,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 100 families fled southern neighborhoods of Moadamiyet al-Sham to the northern district, local activists said as Syrian regime forces stepped up attacks to capture the western suburb of Damascus. The town's media center said regime helicopters had dropped at least 36...

(Hurriyet Daily)-  A Turkish man wanted by Russia for allegedly killing one of the two pilots of the Russian jet downed by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border in late 2015 has appeared at a funeral ceremony in Istanbul, saying he would go back to Syria. “I am here and there. I am going...

Syrian peace negotiations are starting Friday afternoon as UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura will meet the regime delegation, headed by the permanent representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari. "As previously announced by the U.N. Special Envoy for...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday it would be difficult for the moderate Syrian opposition to attend peace talks in Geneva without a ceasefire to put a stop to the Russian bombing of its fighters. "Especially the constant bombing by Russia of opposition areas creates a...

Syrian opposition members met for a fourth day in the Saudi Arabian capital Friday but had still not announced whether they would join peace talks beginning the same day in Geneva. The Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC) has said it will not attend the negotiations with the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-As Syrian peace talks is due to start in Geneva on Friday, wide voices have opposed inviting Saleh Muslim, one of the leaders of the Kurdish PYD militia, to the planned talks saying he is a Syrian regime ally and never been an opponent....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 people, including 4 children, have been killed on Thursday in regime aerial bombing on rebel-held areas, monitor said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 9 people have been killed in regime army attack on Kafr Takharim in northern Idlib province....

(Foreign Policy)- Its title is prosaic and its content dry, but the stark statistics in the U.N.’s annual summary of relief programs tell the story of Syria’s humanitarian nightmare. This is a country on life support: 13.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, Syrians are...

The head of the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition said Thursday his group would not attend UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva until an agreement was reached on aid entering besieged towns. "The opposition is prepared to go to Geneva if these measures are taken," Riad Hijab, coordinator of the High...

The Syrian opposition will not attend peace talks in Geneva Friday, a senior member said. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura had been planning to launch indirect peace talks in Geneva Friday. "For certain we will not head to Geneva and there will not be a delegation from the High Negotiations...

The powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its local allies have drawn up plans for a major attack to seize the final stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border held by ISIS fighters, a YPG source familiar with the plan said Thursday. Such an offensive could deprive ISIS fighters of a logistical...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has discussed Russia's military operation in Syria with his Syrian counterpart Fahad Jassim al-Freij at a meeting in Moscow, RIA news agency reported Thursday, citing Russia's ministry. During the meeting they confirmed their intention to further increase...

Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland on Friday "cannot fail," the chief UN mediator in the conflict said in a video message to the Syrian people Thursday. "You have seen enough conferences, two of them already taken place," Staffan de Mistura said on the eve of the intra-Syrian...

Russia said Thursday it wanted to hold an international meeting on Syria -- including key players from the West and the Middle East -- in Munich next month. "There is an agreement in principle between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry, and now we will...

The Syrian government in 2015 ignored most United Nations requests to deliver humanitarian aid to some of the 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas and only 620,000 received help, the U.N. aid chief said on Wednesday. Stephen O'Brien told the U.N. Security...