Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday the army had been forced to give up areas in order to hold onto more important ones in its fight with insurgents, and the scale of the war meant the military faced a man power shortage. He also said groups fighting to topple him...

 At least 60 Syrian army members and allied militants have been killed on Saturday in Southern Front’s major attack on their stronghold in the southern city of Daraa, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels and al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, announced Thursday a fierce offensive...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State news feeds on social media said the radical group on Saturday has seized control of T-4 military air base east of Homs. The ongoing clashes to seize the biggest air base in Syria has erupted weeks ago, a move comes after rapid advances by the ultra-hardline Sunni...

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on Saturday detonated explosive laden trucks in two villages near the Kurdish-controlled Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, with reports of casualties, a monitor that tracks the war said. The UK-based Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) More than 30,000 acres of natural forest have been destroyed in the western countryside of Homs province last Friday when a large fire broke out, eye-witnesses told Zaman al-Wasl. Eyewitnesses said in early hours of Friday a large fire had broken out in the...

Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree announcing a general amnesty for military deserters who violated the country's compulsory military conscription law, state television said on Saturday. The decree, which was announced on state television, said the law that...

Syrian regime air strikes on Friday have killed 45 people, including 11 children and 9 women, across the war-torn country, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported. Barrel bomb attacks have killed 7 civilians, including 3 children, in al-Yadouda town in the southern province of Daraa....

  Islamic State on Thursday stormed main gas plant in Homs province by grad missiles, leaving huge damage in the main gas supply of regime-controlled city, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. Ebla gas plant, 45 km (30 miles) east Homs, feeds power plants of the city by 2 million cubic...

Syria's foreign minister said on Friday it was too early to hold another United Nations-backed peace conference on Syria, indicating the dim prospects for diplomacy as a U.N. envoy wraps up three months of consultations on the war. Walid al-Moualem also reiterated his...

The United States and its allies staged 27 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Thursday, the coalition leading the military operation said in a statement. Six of the eight air strikes in Syria hit near al Hasaka, striking five units of fighters,...

Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria and police detained hundreds of suspected militants across Turkey on Friday, a sign that Ankara may have shed its hesitancy in taking a front-line role against jihadist fighters. Turkey has long been a reluctant partner in...

Southern Front rebels and al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate announced Thursday a fierce offensive on Syrian regime forces in the major southern city of Daraa, saying their aim was to "purify" the area. Operation "Storm of Truth" was announced on Twitter by the Southern Front, an alliance of rebel...

Favorable rains have helped Syria’s 2015 wheat harvest but the country’s food insecurity is worsening overall because of war, two U.N. agencies said Thursday. Food production “remains way below its precrisis levels as the ongoing conflict continues to push more people into hunger and poverty,”...

At least 44 civilians, including six children and a woman, were killed on Thursday when Assad regime forces shelled areas in a number of Syrian cities and villages under opposition control. "The Assad regime's forces used barrel bombs, vacuum bombs, mortar shells and tanks to attack areas under...

Turkish forces returned fire on Islamic State militants in Syria with tank shells on Thursday after a Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a cross-border firefight, the military said. The fighting comes days after a suspected suicide bombing by the Islamist...

 Rebels that include Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate announced a fierce offensive on the major southern city of Deraa, saying their aim was to "purify" the area. Operation "Storm of Truth" was announced on Twitter by the Southern Front, an alliance of rebel groups, "to purify the province of...

( Rudaw )- Kurdish forces claim they have seized strategic areas of Hasaka amidst reports of poisonous gas attacks by ISIS in the violently contested city.   The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) claimed they took control of the crossroads at Nashwa in Hasaka this afternoon, according...

Syria's two main political opposition groups agreed Thursday on a unified "roadmap" for a political solution to the country's long-running civil war, representatives of the groups said. The two parties have been trying for years to reach a common understanding on how to end the war in Syria....

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc has said a renewed effort will be made to stop the entry of terrorists into Turkey via the Syrian border without affecting the humanitarian passages for refugees. Addressing the media after a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Ankara on...

The United States and its allies conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Tuesday, and another 15 strikes targeting the militant group in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. Most of the strikes in Syria, 10, were concentrated near Al Hasakah, where they...