(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 338 people, including 69 children and 47 women, have been killed in three-week-old offensive on Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Syrian capital, local monitoring group said in report issued Wednesday. The central department of statistics and documentation in the...

An ISIS militant was killed and 21 people were detained while trying to cross illegally the border from Syria to Turkey, the Turkish army said Wednesday. The incident took place in Turkey's Kilis province, a region where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said the United States and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- French and Russian air strikes in northern Syria have killed at least 33 jihadists with the Islamic State group in the last 72 hours, AFP said on Wednesday. Dozens of IS fighters were also wounded in the raids on weapons depots, barracks and checkpoints in the jihadists' de...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel group, The Army of Conquest, declared Tuesday general mobilization, calling on all rebel factions to boost coordination to deter attacks of Syrian regime army and its Russian and Iranian allies. Conquest Army, also known as Fatah Army, said all jihadi groups should...

A Syrian cease-fire could be in place within weeks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with U.S. news channel CNN, Kerry said a growing coalition including Russia and Iran “gives us an opportunity to perhaps get a ceasefire in place within the next three,...

Syria will only share intelligence information with France if Paris changes its policies in the region, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles. "If the French government is not serious in its fight against terrorism, we will not waste our time...

(Reuters)- Russia said on Tuesday it had stepped up airstrikes against Islamist militants in Syria with long-range bombers and cruise missiles after the Kremlin said it wanted retribution for those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt. President Vladimir Putin, visiting the...

The annual birth rate in Syria has fallen by more than half since the civil war broke out in 2011, Al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday. Salah al-Sheikha, dean of Damascus University's faculty of medicine, told the newspaper that before the war Syria recorded around 500,000 births per year....

(The Independent)- A man has been detained in Serbia after he was found carrying a Syrian passport matching the same details as one found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers. The document also carried the details of 25-year-old Almohammad Ahmad but with a different photograph...

(Naharnet)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch al-Nusra Front has demanded control over two regime-held Syrian towns near Lebanon and the release of five women from Lebanese jails in return for freeing the captive Lebanese servicemen, a spokesman for the hostages' families said on Monday. “Al-Nusra's...

France's President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia on Monday to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State following the attacks in Paris, and hours later French fighter jets launched fresh strikes on targets in Syria. "France is at war," Hollande...

Russia told the United Nations on Monday it was "outraged" by allegations that it had killed civilians in Syria and destroyed civilian infrastructure as a U.S.-based rights group accused Moscow's air force of bombing 10 medical facilities in October. Russia launched air strikes...

Syrians living under ISIS rule in its de facto capital of Raqqa fear they will pay the price for the group's Paris attacks with more airstrikes. The town, already being bombed by Russia and a U.S.-led alliance, came under heavy French air raids in the immediate aftermath of the killings in...

Five U.S. governors Monday said they would not allow Syrian refugees to be settled in their states, joining Alabama and Michigan and contending it is too dangerous to let in people from that war-torn country following Friday's deadly Paris attacks. Republican Governors Greg Abbott of Texas,...

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS in northeast Syria has driven the jihadists out of nearly 200 villages, its spokesman told reporters Monday. Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Talal Ali Sello said at a press conference that "between Oct. 30 and Nov. 13, an area...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's al Qaeda offshoot, the Nusra Front, backed by rebel factions on Monday has thwarted regime attack on Tal Hadya town in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. Zaman Al Wasl reporter said rebels and jihadist groups have inflicted heavy losses on regime troops and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Bashar Assad to either leave office and make room for a transitional government or be forced out, Israeli officials told an Israeli daily. According to The Times of Israel, Putin delivered his ultimatum at a meeting between the two in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis, or “Aleppo boil”, has spread among the regime's soldiers and other militias  in the eastern countryside of central Homs province, the outskirts of Palmyra city and the center. The spread of the disease among a large number of...

Bashar al-Assad will not run for office following Syria’s post-conflict transition, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu said Monday. Sinirlioglu told reporters at the closing of the G20 summit in Antalya that Assad will leave office "within the six-month transition period" and a...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with the Syrian Opposition Coalition president on the importance of next steps in Syria following a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna on Saturday, the State Department said. In a call on Monday, Kerry and...