Syrian regime television said on Friday  warplanes had bombed targets near the insurgent-held town of Zabadani near the frontier with Lebanon, destroying an ammunition store and a factory for making rockets, Reuters said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy fighting...

Turkey has deployed additional troops and equipment along part of its border with Syria as fighting north of the city of Aleppo intensifies, security sources said, but Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there were no immediate plans for any incursion. Security sources and...

Syria rejected a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution condemning its aerial bombing tactics record on Thursday, saying the use of barrel bombs was a "technical" issue that was no business of the Geneva-based body. The United States and 10 European and Arab countries backed the resolution...

(Reuters)-  Syrian insurgents led by Islamist groups began a major offensive to gain full control of the divided northern city of Aleppo, a monitor and rebels said on Thursday. The fall of Syria's main commercial hub would be a major blow for President Bashar al-Assad, restricting his...

ISIS militants are looting ancient sites across Iraq and Syria on an industrial scale and selling on treasures to middlemen to raise cash, Irina Bokova, the head of the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday. One fifth of Iraq's about 10,000 official world-renowned sites were under ISIS...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman al-Wasl has occupied a special rank among Syrian digital media outlets as rates, figures and followers on social media reflect a remarkable role has been played by the ten-year-old newspaper. A role that took shape by the beginning of the Syrian revolution in...

Syria's main Kurdish party warned Turkey on Wednesday that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country's main Kurdish militia is ready to face any "aggression." Meanwhile, a Syrian rebel group released a video showing 18 Islamic State militants being shot...

Syrian regime air forces extended its fierce aerial campaign on the southern province of Daraa, killing dozens of people, a move came to put down rebels' effort to take full control of the strategic region near Jordan. On Wednesday, more than 30 people, including women and children, killed in...

 The Syrian rebel Islam Army faction on Wednesday released a video showing the shooting deaths of 18 Islamic State militants whom they had been holding. The IS fighters came from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The Islam Army video came a week after IS released a video showing...

At least 19 people, including 7 women, have been killed in southern province of Daraa, activists said Wednesday as regime air force extends its aerial campaign on southern region of the war-torn country. Activists and monitoring groups said 12 people had been killed and dozens wounded in...

The United States and its allies conducted 17 air strikes against ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq Tuesday in the latest round of daily attacks on the militant group, the joint task force overseeing the air strikes said. There were five air strikes using attack, bomber and fighter aircraft in...

A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Wednesday it had recovered full control of the border town of Tel Abyad after Islamic State fighters raided its outskirts the day before in preparation for a larger assault, Reuters reported. Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, the Kurdish YPG militia and smaller...

An ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up near a base for Syrian air force intelligence in al-Furqlus town in the eastern countryside of Homs, leaving 20 soldiers killed, supporters of the hardline group said on social media Tuesday. ISIS twitter feeds posted a photos for the bomber, Abu al-Abbas...

 Syrian air force on Tuesday killed at least 15 civilians, including a child, in raids on al-Saleheen neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Barrel bomb attacks have also targeted al-Ansari neighborhood, leaving dozens wounded. the aerial campaign...

Islamic State fighters stormed the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on the Turkish border on Tuesday and captured a neighborhood from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, but suffered setbacks in the northeastern city of Hasaka, a monitor and the army said. Islamic State has launched simultaneous attacks...

Syrian opposition's head Khaled Khoja to visit Geneva on Wednesday accompanied with 6 National Coalition members, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The unexpressed visit came over the third round of Syria's Peace Talks that planned to take place in the Switzerland's capital. The UN-Arab League...

The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday. The beheadings took place in the eastern Deir al-Zor province this week said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian...

  The military spokesman of South Storm battle in Daraa province said a homemade missile has destroyed the military operations room of Syrian forces in the Old City of Daraa, the Syrian Media Commission reported on Monday. The spokesman (Dubbed: Abu Qusai) said fighters of the South Storm...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to continue political, economic and military support Syria as he called on all Middle East nations to join forces against ISIS. Putin called on all nations to 'pool their efforts together' to fight Islamic militants, regardless of their relations...

Three Islamic State group car bombs killed 12 Syrian troops and militiamen in the northeastern city of Hasakeh where the extremists have taken two districts, AFP reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 30 civilians have been killed in the clashes, with an increase in...