The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has ratcheted up pressure on ethnic Assyrians and Yazidis living in parts of Syria under its control while claiming that it is fighting the Daesh militant group, Afram Yakoub, the president of the Assyrian Federation of Sweden, told Anadolu Agency on...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HASAKA (Zaman Al Wasl)- The united States and Russia are competing each other on founding military bases in Hasaka province, while Iran had withdrawn from the city after termination the existence of Hezbollah in Qamishli in 2015. The...

(The Telegraph)- The United Nations has given approval to Western countries including Britain to carry out air drops over besieged Syrian towns without regime permission, The Telegraph can disclose. In a key admission of the UN’s failure to ensure basic supplies despite a security...

A Syrian opposition council formed in Riyadh last month said on Wednesday it will not attend peace negotiations if a third party joins the talks, a reference to a Russian bid to include other groups in the process that was due to be launched next week, Reuters reported. Riad Hijab, who heads...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS has executed a Free Syrian Army fighter on Tuesday in territory it controls in the northern Aleppo province, media activists told Zaman al-Wasl. ISIS have killed FSA fighter in Qabraimou village near Manbij town 20 miles (30 km) west of the Euphrates river. Local...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Video)- Rebels of the southern suburbs of Damascus said tunnels have become their strategic tool to escape Russian air strikes. Despite the difficulty of digging tunnels and trenches due to siege and lack of equipment, rebels have insisted to  pay all efforts to secure...

A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for "Jihadi John", a member of the militant group who gained notoriety for his filmed execution of hostages, the monitoring organization SITE reported. The militant was identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen of...

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday no one should dictate to the Syrian opposition who represents them at peace talks, as a proposed Jan. 25 meeting looked set to be delayed by differences over who will attend, Reuters reported. The planned Geneva talks are part of a peace process endorsed by the U.N....

A Russian bomber had destroyed ISIS strongholds in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, Russian agencies quoted a defense ministry official as saying Tuesday. Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the bomber's strikes had killed more than 60 of the extremist militants in comments...

Denmark told the United Nations it was "taking necessary and proportionate measures" against Islamic State in Syria, which the foreign ministry later said involved training radar located in Iraq on the neighboring country. Denmark had previously contributed seven F-16 fighter jets which...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 people, mostly oldmen and children, have been died in northeastern Hasaka province due to the latest harsh cold weather wave sweeping the area. Activist Mahmood al-Ahmed mentioned that 3 people died in Tal-Hamis because of cold...

The United Nations said on Monday it would not issue invitations to peace talks between Syria's government and opposition set to begin on Jan. 25 until major powers pushing the peace process reach agreement on which rebel representatives should attend. "At this stage the U.N....

A third round of aid was delivered to besieged Syrian towns on Monday, although armed groups postponed one humanitarian team's access saying they needed more time to make security arrangements, the United Nations said in a joint statement. The U.N., the International Committee of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has freed 8 people, including 4 women and 3 children, over prisoner swap deal with rebels in Damascus late on Monday, rebel commander told Zaman al Wasl. Abu Nafea al-Dimashqi, commander of Dhuha al-Islam Brigade said the prisoner swap has included a Hezbollah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-- Syrian rebels have recaptured two towns from rival Jaysh al-Thuwar group in the northern province of Aleppo, activists said on Monday. Rebels have taken towns of al-Alqamiya andl al-Zeraa near Menng military airbase after heavy fighting started on Sunday.   Rebels have...

Forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have committed significant human rights violations in north and northeastern Syria -- including "ethnic cleansing massacres" -- since the withdrawal of government forces in 2012, according to a report published Monday by the...

At least four people were injured in an explosion at a school in southern Turkey on Monday, a local hospital source said. The blast occurred at Eyup Gokceimam Middle School in Kilis, a city close to the Syrian border, at around 9.30 a.m. local time (0730GMT). One of the injured is in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7,000 people have fled regime major attack on rebel-held areas in southern countryside of Hama to the neighboring region of al-Houla, local revolutionary council  said Sunday. Hundreds of displaced families of villages of Har Banafsheh, Talaf and Deir al-Faris...

Five people were killed and another 11 injured by airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on Sunday in Aleppo’s opposition-held Kallaseh district, according to local sources. Local civil defense officials told Anadolu Agency that the airstrikes had targeted residential parts of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of ISIS fighters are expected to be evacuated soon from besieged southern Damascus suburb due to a U.N.-brokered deal that was suspended late December 2015 after the killing of Islam Army's commander Zahran Alloush in Russian air strike. Zaman al-Wasl sources said the...