(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on northern Aleppo province killed ten people late on Monday backing a ground offensive by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local reporter said. The Russian air strikes took place in Tel Ref'at town as the alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab...

A group of several hundred Syrians from two besieged towns arrived outside Damascus Tuesday after passing through Turkey and Lebanon as part of a rare UN-backed deal to evacuate people from flashpoint areas. A source close to the deal confirmed the arrival of over 300...

Islamic State has set up departments to handle "war spoils," including slaves, and the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, creating the trappings of government that enable it to manage large swaths of Syria and Iraq and other areas. The hierarchical bureaucracy, including petty...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hezbollah's military commander in southern province of Daraa has been killed with his comrades in a rebel missile attack on his base Monday, field sources said. The commander who was known as " The Ghost" was killed with others in a Katyusha rocket hit his base in Ezra'a...

Russian air strikes like the one that killed a top Syrian rebel leader last week send the wrong message to groups engaged in a political dialogue to end the conflict and complicate efforts to begin negotiations, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. Syrian rebel chief Zahran Alloush, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl- BBC)- Hundreds of fighters and civilians in three besieged parts of Syria have been evacuated under a truce deal brokered by the United Nations. Buses and ambulances ferried at least 120 Sunni rebels and civilians from Zabadani into nearby Lebanon. At the same time,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 8 unknown armed men on Monday have kidnapped Ya'qub al-Ammar, the head of Daraa council in the western countryside of the southern province, according to statement posted online. Al-Ammar, head of Daraa governorate council, was kidnapped in the road links between Mzairib town...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters have recaptured early Monday three border towns with Turkey were under control of the Syrian rebels, Zaman Al Wasl local reporter said. ISIS took towns Dwaidan, Qarah Qweeri and Ghazel in the northern countryside. Omar Kassouma, military commander of Sultan...

Syria's opposition has yet to reach a consensus on a list of its delegates who will lead negotiations with the central government, Interfax news agency on Monday quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. The Syrian government, meanwhile, was ready for the talks, Lavrov said.

At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blasts, one from a car bomb and another from a suicide attack, struck the Zahra district in the middle of the city, said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ambulances and buses on Monday entered the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Zadabadi to evacuate scores of fighters, among them injured, to Turkey under a U.N.-sponsored deal reached by the warring sides, rebel sources in the town told Reuters. The deal will allow rebel...

Besieged rebel fighters in a Syrian border town and families trapped in two Shi'ite towns in northern Syria are expected to be evacuated on Monday in the second stage of a rare, U.N.-backed deal between warring sides in Syria's war, sources close to negotiations said. The deal will allow...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces said to conduct a massive incursion into Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of Damascus if rebels have not given up arms and accept to move out of the town, the local negotiators team said after 4-hour meeting with regime representatives on Sunday. The local...

(El Dorar Al Shamia)- The Commander in Chief of the Islamic movement Ahrar al-Sham "Muhannad al-Masri" directed in a tape recorder, a message of condolence to the "Islam Army" after the loss of their leader, "Zahran Aloush" as the Russian aggression jets targeted him in al-Marj area of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists say regime forces set off explosives planted at a farm where Islamic rebel factions were gathering, killing 17fighters, AP reported. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the explosion took place late Saturday in the village of Kfar Shams...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A suspected ISIS assailant on Sunday has killed a Syrian journalist in the Turkish border city of Gaziantep, Turkish media outlets and activists said. Naji al-Jerf, 38, was an outspoken critic against the radical Islamic State group, who had documented its crimes and abuses...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime barrel bomb attack killed Sunday at least 6 people in al-Hola region in the central province of Homs, activists said. The attack that targeted the main school of Thalf village in the northern countryside of Homs, left 6 people dead since most of displaced...

Russian air forces have not hit civilian targets since they started a bombing campaign in Syria nearly three months ago, a senior Russian officer said in an interview with Rossiya 24 television. London-based rights group Amnesty International said this week that Russia's bombing of Syria had...

The United States and its allies conducted 17 airstrikes on Christmas Day against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Saturday. In Syria, coalition military forces conducted five airstrikes using attack and remotely piloted aircraft, targeting...

A new message purporting to come from the leader of ISIS said airstrikes by Russia and a U.S.-led coalition had failed to weaken the group. "Be confident that God will grant victory to those who worship him, and hear the good news that our state is doing well. The more intense the war against...