Syrian activists say ISIS has released two Christian women who had been held along with dozens others since February in northeastern Syria. ISIS kidnapped more than 220 Assyrian Christians in February, after overrunning several farming communities on the southern bank of the Khabur River in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Staffan De Mistura, the U.N. Syria envoy, to meet with representatives of Syria’s moderate rebels and with the head of the Syrian National Coalition on June 4, source told Zaman al-Wasl. De Mistura, who is presiding over the Geneva peace consultations, is intensifying efforts...

 Syria's deputy foreign minister says air support provided by any country to rebels fighting against ISIS extremists would be considered an "aggression." Faisal Mekdad's comments on Tuesday were in response to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said Turkey and the U.S. have...

Syrian regime's helicopters on Tuesday have dropped 6 barrel bombs on the embattled Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, killing one person,  Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Meanwhile, new skirmishes erupted between Islamist rebels led by the Nusra Front, who control the vast...

The Syrian government's antiquities chief said on Tuesday the historical city of Palmyra had been unharmed since ISIS seized it from state control last week. Maamoun Abdulkarim said was still afraid the jihadi group would blow up ancient ruins at Palmyra including tombs and the Temple of Bel,...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Local activists said Abduction and killing have returned to Homs city as three bodies of two boys and a girl were found last week with signs of slaughtering and torture after being kidnapped. Activists reported that bodies of two cousin boys,...

At least 15 people were killed in Syrian regime air strikes around Palmyra, the U.K.-based Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a statement on Monday. The strikes close to the UNESCO World Heritage site in Homs province injured dozens more, the rights group said. On Sunday, the...

The United States and its allies carried out 10 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and 25 strikes in Iraq since Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday. Kurdish fighters, supported by the coalition, were forcing militants to cede territory in northern Syria at an increasing rate, U.S. Brigadier...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  On 25th May three years ago, the Syrian regime and its militias committed a massacre against people in the town of Holeh near Homs, in which 180 people were killed according to UN figures, majority of them children, women and elderly. About 108 people were...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, backed by Islamist factions seized control of an ISIS-held town southwest Syria near the Occupied Golan Heights, a monitoring group said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Nusra Front and Islamic factions have seize the town of...

 Syrian rebel forces are using Nazi-era artillery weapons, most likely looted from the stocks of President Bashar al-Assad’s army. In a video posted online this week, fighters from the armed opposition group Ahrar al-Sham can be seen loading a dusty howitzer during an attack on Ariha, one...

State-run media mourned Sunday senior commander in Syria regime army, saying he was killed "during his national duty," in Aleppo. Activists say the deputy chairman of the security committee in Aleppo province, Major General Younes Ali Ibrahim, died of his wounds. Early Sunday, another top army...

  The Islamic State group has executed at least 217 people, including civilians, in the nine days since it captured areas in Syria's Homs province including the ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the executions of...

The Syrian air force on Sunday extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in Syria, conducting a series of airstrikes on Aleppo, Daraa and Hama that killed 15 people, activists said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 6 victims including a woman and a child...

Syrian army commander came under attack by Ahrar al-Sham Sunday, when an explosive device was detonated near his car in al-Diwaniyah neighborhood of Damascus, killing him and 7 of his escorts, the Islamist group said in statement. Ahrar al-Sham said Brigadier General, Bassam Mehanna al-Ali, and...

ISIS seized the Iraqi side of a key border crossing with Syria after isolated government forces pulled out, a police officer and a provincial official said. "Daesh [ISIS] early this morning took control of the Al-Walid post on the border between Iraq and Syria after the withdrawal of...

A number of Syrian opposition factions will gather in Cairo next month to form a new coalition as an alternative to an exiled West-backed alliance, officials said Saturday. More than 200 figures from the armed and civilian opposition factions are to attend the June 8-9 gathering and discuss a...

(NOW)- Attention has already been drawn in previous leaks to international journalists who were in contact with Bashar al-Assad’s media aides. Many of these reporters were simply requesting interviews with the president, after obtaining the relevant email addresses through third-party...

(NOW)- The Army of Conquest rebel coalition in northwest Syria has continued to advance against regime troops desperately defending a collapsing salient of territory in the Idlib province. Following a nearly month-long siege, the insurgents stormed into the Jisr al-Shughur National...

At least 15 people, including 8 children, were killed on Saturday in barrel bomb attacks on al-Hamidiyya neighborhood in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, activists said. 8 children, mostly brothers, and a women were among the casualties of the Syrian regime airstrikes on the rebel-held...