The Arab and Turkmen populations in northern Syria have faced human rights abuses in areas controlled by armed Kurdish group, the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), according to a report published Tuesday. In a 22-page report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said abuses against Arabs, Turkmen...

Ahrar al Sham Islamic movement has no relation or links with the newly announced body, The Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in the northern city of Aleppo, the communication officer told Zaman al Wasl. Social media activists circulated on Saturday a video statement...

Delegations from Free Syrian Army rebel groups did not visit Moscow, representatives of four factions fighting under the FSA banner told Reuters on Tuesday, denying Russian news agency reports that such visits had taken place. Russian Foreign Ministry official Mikhail Bogdanov...

An Iranian official says the Revolutionary Guard has sent more military advisers to Syria to help President Bashar Assad in the fight against insurgents. Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard's deputy leader, says this has led to more Iranian deaths in the conflict. Salami didn't give any specifics...

Further diplomatic discussions on ending the Syrian conflict could occur as soon as the end of this week, a State Department spokesman said on Monday, acknowledging that Iran would eventually need to be involved in the talks on a political transition in Syria. "At some point ... we know there's...

At least 120,000 people have been displaced since early October in the Syrian governorates of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, the United Nations said on Monday, more than doubling an earlier estimate of 50,000. According to Reuters, most of the people who have fled from an upsurge of fighting have...

A Russian foreign ministry official said on Monday delegations from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) had visited Moscow several times, Russian news agencies reported, as Moscow stepped up political efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria. The Kremlin also said President Vladimir Putin,...

Islam Army denied reports saying regime forces have been making gains in territory it controls east Damascus. The key rebel group operating in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs and in the eastern Qalamoun region said in press statement it has killed 24 regime troops northeast the capital on...

A new mass grave found Friday in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor that has contained 40 bodies for men from al-Sheitaat tribe who revolted against the Islamic State in July 2014. The Syrian Justice Center for Human Rights said the one-year-old grave had included corpses of 40 people, mostly...

In the courtyard of an apartment building in the town of Gori in ex-Soviet Georgia is a clue to whether Russia's air strikes on targets in Syria are as accurate as the Kremlin would like the rest of the world to believe. Fashioned out of fragments of ordnance is a makeshift shrine to the five...

Islamic State has published on the social media photos showing its last gains against Syrian regime and allied militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo city. ISIS said on Friday it had taken control of eight army checkpoints on the road and cut off the regime army supply route to...

An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related groups in southern Syria said on Monday Russia must stop bombing rebels before they could talk about cooperating with it, saying they hadn't turned down an offer of support but Moscow must first halt its attacks. In comments marking a...

Nusra Front's Twitter accounts said dozens of Syrian regime army were killed south of Aleppo in an ambush set by the al-Qaeda-linked group. Meanwhile, three civilians killed and tens wounded in Russian air strikes on the ISIS-held town of al Bab near Aleppo, activists said....

A new round of fierce fighting flared up Sunday between moderate rebels and forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the southern countryside of Aleppo city. A rebel source in al Shamiyeh Front told Zaman al Wasl that dozens of regime troops and their allied militia have been killed in cement...

 Teir Malla Media Office mourned Sunday journalist Mahmoud Al Louz, who died of wounds sustained during his covering for the Syrian regime offensive on northern countryside of Homs. Al Louz, who escaped death three times since the revolution erupted in March 2011, has lost his live due to...

 The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS militants in Iraq and Syria carried out 22 airstrikes Saturday, most of them against targets near the Iraqi towns of Kisik, Ramadi and Sinjar, the U.S. military said Sunday. A coalition statement did not report any airstrikes in Syria Saturday....

A new member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been killed in northern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Sunday. Mustafa Sader Zadeh was a senior commander in Fatemiyoun Brigade which is formed of Iran-based Afghan expatriates who are trained by Tehran to fight in...

The United States and Saudi Arabia agreed to increase support to Syria's moderate opposition while seeking a political resolution of the four-year conflict, the U.S. State Department said after Secretary of State John Kerry met King Salman on Saturday. Kerry was in Riyadh for meetings with...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is willing to eventually hold parliamentary and presidential elections and is ready to run himself for president, a Russian lawmaker told AFP from Damascus on Sunday. "He is ready to conduct elections with the participation of all political forces who want...

An Arab Israeli has crossed into Syria using a paraglider, the army said Sunday, with the apparent goal of joining rebel fighters there. Late Saturday afternoon "a surveillance post identified an Israeli civilian entering Syrian territory using a paraglider," an army statement read. "The...