Washington (CNN)The U.S. official spearheading the fight against ISIS threw cold water on the idea of a no-fly zone in Syria Thursday, despite several presidential candidates advocating for the move. Speaking with CNN's Elise Labott on his last day in office, Gen. John Allen, presidential envoy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army and allied Shiite forces on Thursday captured the strategic town of Al Hader in southern Aleppo province, in the latest advance in what is a strategic rebel-held area, Syrian state television said quoting a military source. The rebels fled the...

(Reuters)- Syrian regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah Thursday took control of the key rebel-held town of Al-Hader, south of Aleppo city, a military source told AFP.  "Syrian troops and allied forces have full control of Al-Hader," the source said of the town, which is around 10...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The last ophthalmologist has left Northern countryside of Homs to Turkey last month, leaving patients of injuries with sharp materials and wounds in eyes because of foreign bodies at risk of losing the activity of their eyes leading to blindness...

Talks on the Syrian conflict in Vienna this weekend will focus on deciding which opposition groups should negotiate with President Bashar Assad's government and which should be designated as terrorists, sources said Wednesday. The discussions will bring together around 20 countries and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army on Wednesday has launched a major missile attack on southern outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said. Revolution Coordination Committees said regime warplanes have carried out more than 15 raids on the embattled town of Daraya. Regime army has also fired at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel group controlling a border crossing with Turkey has banned members of the Western-backed interim government from entering rebel-held Aleppo province, sources told Zaman al Wasl Wednesday. Al Shamiyeh Front who controls Bab al Salameh crossing prevented Ahmed Tomeh,...

Syrian opposition figures and Gulf commentators dismissed Wednesday a Russian draft proposal for a process to solve the Syrian crisis, saying Moscow's aim was to keep President Bashar Assad in power and marginalize dissenting voices. A draft document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday showed Moscow...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 Hezbollah fighters were killed in Kweires air base battle  in the northern province of Aleppo that broke a more than two-year-old siege by the Islamic State group, Lebanese news feeds said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hasaka (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Thousands of people on Monday took into streets of Malikia town in the norrthern province of Hasaka protesting against practices and abuses of the Democratic Union Party (PYD). The demonstaruion that was  faced by...

Saudi Arabia is pushing the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee to condemn Iranian and Russian intervention in Syria, a move that prompted complaints on Tuesday from the delegations of Iran and Syria. The non-binding draft resolution, prepared by Saudi Arabia and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops on Tuesday broke a more than two-year-old siege by the Islamic State group at a major military air base in the northern province of Aleppo.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces fighting on the side of the Syrian regime, including...

n">Russia wants the Syrian government and opposition to agree on launching a constitutional reform process of up to 18 months, followed by early presidential elections, a draft document obtained by Reuters showed on Tuesday. The eight-point proposal, drawn up by Moscow before...

At least 23 people were killed and 40 wounded in two explosions in the Syrian city of Latakia on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, in one of the bloodiest attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's coastal stronghold. The blasts hit two separate areas of the city, one from rocket fire and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 Syrian civilians were killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on the rebel-held town of Douma northeast Damascus, a monitor group an activists said. Field activists said 15 people have been killed and 100 more wounded in cluster bomb attack conducted by...

Pro-government forces in Syria clashed with ISIS fighters around a military air base in the north of the country on Tuesday as they tried to break the extremists' siege of the facility, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces fighting on the side of the Syrian...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of families are missing among 28 thousand people fled ISIS-captured towns of Mahin and Hawarin in the eastern countryside of Homs province due to the daily barrage of Syrian and Russian airstrikes. Most of displaced people headed toward the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels to launch an imminent attack on Maan town in the northern countryside of Hama, seeking to take regime's strategic military base after week of advances. Abu Khaled, An Ajanad al Sham media officer, a rebel group operating under the Army of Conquest, said at least...

Dakar (AFP) - The French army on Sunday bombed an oil supply centre held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Monday. "We intervened in Syria... yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply centre near Deir Ezzor on the border...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unidentified assailants opened fire early Monday on two moderate rebel commanders in southern province of Daraa, leaving one them dead, activists said. Ibrahim al Masalmeh, the commander of Al Omari Martyrs Battalion, has lost his life while his comrade khaled Abazied has...