(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel monitor tracks Russia's aerial campaign in northern Hama province has warned fighters to not paste slogans or religious statements on their cars which can be easily identified by Russian advanced warplanes and satellites, according to audio statement issued...

Russia, the United States and the United Nations will hold talks on Syria in Geneva on Friday as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are ratcheted up, Moscow and Washington announced. “We will be having consultations in the trilateral format -- Russia, the United States and the UN,” Deputy...

Syria's fragmented opposition and rebel groups sought common ground on Wednesday ahead of planned negotiations to end a conflict which has devastated the country and drawn forces from Cold War and Middle East rivals into ever deeper combat operations. The talks in Saudi...

Turkey's prime minister accused Russia on Wednesday of attempted "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria, saying Moscow was trying to drive out the local Turkmen and Sunni Muslim populations to protect its military interests in the region. Ahmet Davutoglu's comments could further...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people killed and 20 wounded in Russian air strikes on the northern province of Aleppo, activists and Civil Defense volunteers said on Wednesday. The devastating Russian aerial campaign has targeted Aleppo's neighborhoods of Al Saliheen, Karm al Trab, Sheikh...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 26 people, activists said Wednesday. Russia's aerial bombing targeted  al Abbadeh town east of the capital, leaving at least 8 people, , mostly children and women, dead and dozens wounded. 14...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he would head to Moscow next week to meet Russian leaders and try to build momentum for a push to end Syria's civil war. Washington and Moscow have worked together to bring a group of regional and world powers together to forge a framework for...

(Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)-  Syrian rebel forces on Wednesday began evacuating the last district they hold in the central city of Homs under a deal with the regime, sending out dozens of civilians, a monitor said. "The first bus of civilians has left Waer," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the...

The powerful Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday that a Syrian opposition meeting in Saudi Arabia must insist that President Bashar al-Assad face justice and that Syria's "institutions of oppression" are dismantled. The group, whose founders had links to...

Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian troops edged closer to a major rebel-controlled highway south of Aleppo Tuesday, pushing further into insurgent-held areas supported by heavy Russian airstrikes. After seizing a series of villages including Zitan, Humaira and Qalaajiya, the army said it...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia had for the first time struck ISIS targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine in the Mediterranean. "The targets were two large terrorist positions in the territory of Raqqa," Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said its fighter who had carried out the suicide bombing against Syrian regime forces in southern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday is Turkish. Nusra said on social media that Younis al-Turkey had blown himself up in an army checkpoint...

Mirroring the slick production values of ISIS propaganda video, the footage opens with captives being led along a dusty road in orange jumpsuits by men in balaclavas (Mirror)- A new ‘execution' video features rebel Syrian fighters forcing ISIS captives to kneel in the dirt at gunpoint...

 The son of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has denied Russian allegations that he and his family were profiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Russia's defense ministry said last week it had proof that the Erdogan family was...

Countries involved in the Syrian peace process are set to meet in New York on Dec. 18 but the talks may hinge on efforts to unite Syrian opposition groups in the coming days, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. Russia, the United States, European and Middle Eastern countries...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a rare deal between Isis and Syrian regime army in the embattled southern suburbs of Damascus, tens of the radical group's fighters with their cars have left southern suburb of Damascus heading an Isis-held territory near Iraqi borders, sources told Zaman al Wasl on Monday....

Three-day conference gets under way in Saudi capital Riyadh without Kurdish groups, which are holding their own meeting. Saudi Arabia is  hosting a three-day meeting in Riyadh to try to unite the Syrian opposition before potential talks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad....

  Al Jazeera cameraman Zakaria Ibrahim has died six days after he was injured by shrapnel while covering a Syrian army bombardment in the province of Homs. Ibrahim, who died from his injuries on Monday, was in the village of Teldo to report on what was expected to be a...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS said Tuesday it was "assessing the credibility" of reports its strikes killed at least 26 civilians in a Syrian village Monday. "Every time we get information about the possibility of a civilian casualty incident, we always do a credibility assessment on...

Syria's rebel and opposition groups are trying to forge a common stance over negotiations to end the civil war but the absence of some prominent activists and a main Kurdish force from their meeting in Riyadh shows that unity remains elusive. Saudi Arabia, a strong supporter of rebels fighting...