(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on eastern suburbs of Damascus have killed 4 people on Saturday amid reports rebels have recaptured ground in the area. Regime's key-ally Russia has made a turning point by hitting rural Damascus after almost two months of aerial bombing on north and east...

A group of nine Islamist detainees have on Friday been quietly transferred from the country's notorious Roumieh central prison early to an "undisclosed location". All indications suggest this could be a sign that a prisoner swap is imminent with the Nusra Front, a Syrian insurgent group and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday have taken control of 4 villages in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, the Revolution Local Coordination Committees said. Rebels have captured villages of Makhala, Tel tajer, Kherbat Kousaand Hemaira after heavy clashes with regime troops and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Western-backed Syrian opposition group, the National Coalition, has formed  a new supreme military council that includes representatives of rebel groups fighting Bashar al-Assad in the war-torn country, according to statement issued Friday. The announcement of the...

Working with Syrian government forces to combat ISIS can only happen within the framework of a credible political transition for Syria, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday. Earlier Fabius had appeared to suggest President Bashar al-Assad’s forces could be used to battle ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Turkmen rebels have recaptured Burj Zahiyah mountain in Mount Turkmen late on Thursday after a fierce fighting with Syrian regime troops backed by Shiite militants near the Turkish border. Burj al Zahiyah, which based in the main stronghold of Turkmen minority...

Syrian Kurds need political and military representation at a Syrian opposition conference organized by Saudi Arabia next month because they are a main partner fighting Islamic State and important to Syria's future, a Syrian Kurdish leader said. Saudi Arabia says it is in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported Thursday a fierce fighting between Syrian regime troops backed by Shiite militants and Turkmen fighters in the mountainous Latakia province near the Turkish border. Regime forces have taken Burj al Zahiyah village in the main stronghold of Syrian Turkmen...

Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was time to join air strikes against Islamic State in Syria because Britain cannot "subcontract its security to other countries". Many Britons are wary of entering into another war in the Middle East after Western intervention in Iraq,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia on Thursday has renewed air strikes on aid vehicles near the Turkish border, targeting a convoy in Sarmada town in northern province of Idlib, activists said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Wednesday, Russia's warplanes carried out two air...

In the downing of a Russian fighter jet on Tuesday, an independent expert says that the Turkish radar tracking provided is more accurate than similar material provided by Russia. Legal experts also confirm that Turkey had a right to take action. According to Turkish army on Tuesday, two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians on Wednesday have been killed in Russian air strikes on aid vehicles near Azaz, a border town with Turkey in northern Aleppo province, activists and reporter said. Russia's warplanes have carried out two air strikes on an aid warehouse near Bab al Salameh...

(Reuters)- The United States and its allies launched a fresh round of daily airstrikes against ISIS Tuesday, targeting the militant group with 18 strikes in Iraq and five in Syria, the U.S.-led coalition leading the operations said in a statement. In Iraq, the strikes near 10 cities included...

A Syrian military source said rebels are making heavy use of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles paid for by Saudi Arabia and supplied via Turkey in recent weeks and the weapons are having an impact on the battlefield. The so-called TOW missile is the most potent weapon in the arsenal of rebel...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu Agency)- Turkey on Wednesday released a recording of warnings given to the Russian warplane later shot down on the Turkey-Syria border. In the recording, the Turkish Air Force command center in Diyarbakir warns the approaching flight to change course to the south....

In a report issued this week, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that more than 20,000 women had been killed in Syria’s ongoing civil conflict, including around 19,000 slain by Syrian regime forces. Publication of the report coincided with the International Day for the Elimination...

Russia n and Syrian special forces rescued one of the pilots of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday. The state news agency SANA said the pilot, whose Su-24 jet came down in  Syria n territory on Tuesday,...

(Writing by Faris al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl- Doctors in Hama Northern countryside have established an underground hospital as an alternative to treat patients and wounded civilians and military members, after destructing their hospital by the Syrian regime’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two civilians killed in a U.S.-led air strike on their car in northern Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday. The victims were father and son driving a vehicle loaded with sheep. In a statement on Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said...

At least 13 people were killed in Tuesday's apparent suicide bombing of a Tunisian presidential guard bus in central Tunis, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency and tighten security around the capital. Troops and armed police patrolled the city streets and set...