(Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of Russian air strikes hit Al Bukamal border town east Syria on Wednesday has risen to 50, Islamic State's news outlets said. 13 children and 4 women were among the victims of Russia's aerial campaign against the ISIS-held town of Al Bukamal town on the Iraqi...

Although Russia claimed to be targeting terrorism when it launched airstrikes in Syria last month, moderate opposition groups and civilians in their controlled areas were the most affected, even more than Daesh. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday that its air forces hit 2,084...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes hit Thursday a medicine factory which also operates as a hospital in the northern countryside of Aleppo city, in a flagrant aggression on main hospitals in rebel-held areas that have been forced to close indefinitely after being targeted by Russia and regime...

 Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used during fighting in Syria in August, according to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters. The chemical - which causes severe delayed burns to the eyes, skin and lungs and is banned under international law...

At a dusty checkpoint on the front line facing ISIL in northern Syria, a steady trickle of cars, vans and trucks passes by on their way from Raqqa, the extremist group’s main stronghold. The checkpoint near the town of Ain Issa is no more than an abandoned building beside a dirt track,...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq targeted the militants with 23 airstrikes Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement. Twenty fresh strikes in Iraq targeted the militant group in eight cities, including Sinjar, Ramadi and Mosul, the statement released Thursday...

(Reuters)- Representatives of four Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel groups fighting on the ground in Syria Thursday dismissed a report that FSA factions would meet with Russian officials next week in Abu Dhabi. The RIA news agency said a delegation from the FSA had agreed to meet with Russian...

The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was moving toward providing additional weaponry to Syrian opposition forces battling Islamic State after territorial gains in the past week by the U.S.-backed fighters. Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition...

Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out several air strikes on Wednesday on areas of northwestern Syria that were included in a local ceasefire agreed by warring sides in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The strikes hit the outskirts of the towns of Maarat...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian insurgents took control of most of a town on a major highway in the west of the country after heavy battles with pro-government militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. Islamist insurgents from the Jund al-Aqsa group,...

Russia has sent missile systems to Syria to protect its military forces there, the head of Russia's air force said on Thursday. Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said fighter jets could be hijacked in countries neighboring Syria and used to attack Russian forces. "We have calculated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels operating in the coastal region, Bashar al-Assad's historical stronghold, have thwarted army attacks on al Akrad and Turken Mountains on Wednesday as Russia warplanes continued air strikes on their bastions in support for regime troops on the ground....

Moscow's military force in Syria has grown to about 4,000 personnel, but this and more than a month of Russian air strikes have not led to pro-government forces making significant territorial gains, U.S. security officials and independent experts said. Moscow, which has maintained a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels shot down a fighter jet in Syria's Hama province on Wednesday, local activists and monitoring group said, as Russia warplanes continued air strikes across Syria.  The Syrian MiG-23 was downed near the village of Kafr Nabouda in northern Hama, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes have carried out more than 30 raids on ISIS's de facto Syrian capital Raqqa on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people in second aerial attack in 24 hours, activists and monitoring group said. On Tuesday, 23 people including 13 militants, were killed,...

The Syrian army regained control of a road southeast of Aleppo Wednesday, state television said, taking back the regime's only supply route into the city from ISIS militants who had seized it last month. Army forces took full control of the road which runs from Aleppo through the towns of...

 Airstrikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes on an ISIS-held town in central Syria killed 23 civilians, an activist group said Wednesday. Among those killed in the Monday strikes on the Homs province town of Al-Qaryatain were three children and a woman, the Syrian...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- In spite of the fact that Sweida city, the Druze majority's stronghold south Syria, has not deeply engaged in the revolution yet, many changes took place in the city and many taboos were broken especially the freedom to put most old and traditional...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels took a military base in the western countryside of Hama province after heavy clashes with Syrian regime troops, field activist told Zaman Al Wasl Tuesday. Rebels have seized Tal Othman base and the nearby village of  al Janabra, activist Mustafa Abu Arab said. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes hit rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo, local reporter said Tuesday. The air strikes have targeted Aleppo's most populous neighborhoods of Bustan al Qasr and al Mashhad, leaving 12 people killed...