(Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hasan Shandi, Kurdish opposition figure, last Friday has appealed to the Kurdish community and human rights organizations for seizing his father’s house and farm in Efrin in Aleppo countryside by the Democratic Union party...

 A photo collects senior Syrian Islamist commanders has sparked a barrage of questions on social media as rebels close to overthrow Bashar al-Assad for the first time in four-year fighting. Jaysh al-Islam commander, Zahran Alloush, accompanied by commander of Ahrar al-Sham Movement,...

The leader of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remains incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage and is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the group’s stronghold of Mosul, the Guardian has learned. More than two months after being injured in a US...

 The Syrian capital's tiny tourist train is returning puffs of hope to a city encircled by war with short trips to the greener suburbs of Damascus. The train, whose large yellow wagon and leather seats can hold 100 people, had stopped running since the 2011 outbreak...

Free Syrian Army mourned Friday a prominent commander reportedly killed by Syrian forces on Aleppo's battlefront northern Syria. Division 16, rebel group active in Aleppo city, said its field commander Khaled al-Hayani was killed during an attack launched by the group on government-held...

The death toll from an air strike by U.S.-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Friday has risen to 52 including seven children, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday. U.S. and Arab forces have been carrying out almost daily air raids against hardline Islamist...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented the death of 1884 individuals by government forces in notable rise from the last month of almost 550 victims, distributes as follow: a. Civilians: Government forces killed 1519 civilians including 269 children (9 children...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A “Security card” is the latest invention of the Syrian regime for people live in Damascus, which protects its owner from being humiliated and annoyed at the regimes barriers.  Fees for getting the Security Card is $.600 are paid in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people on Friday have been killed in Syrian air strikes on northern city of Aleppo. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said 11 civilians were killed in barrel-bomb attack on al-Saliheen neighborhood of Aleppo. Death toll of barrel bombs in Aleppo reached 225...

 Lebanon to expect a wave of refugees heading borders from the predominantly Alawite Latakia, Bashar al-Assad's hometown as Islamist rebels press more advances in Syria's northwestern province. Nada Abdelsamad, Lebanese journalist, said on her official Twitter account  as...

Islamist rebels and Syrian army troops on Thursday were engaged in heavy fighting in Syria's northwestern Latakia province in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral home, the army and rebels said. An army source told state news agency SANA fighter jets hit...

The head of the Syrian opposition National Coalition called on the United States Thursday to help set up safe havens inside Syria in areas under rebel control. Meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department, coalition president Khaled Khoja thanked the...

Nour ed-Din al-Zinki Islamist group, active in Aleppo, has exempted its general leader Tawfeeq Shihab al-Din, the Shura council said in statement Thursday. The rebel group said Shehab el-Din has special health conditions makes him unable to keep his post. The Shura council has appointed Ali...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people on Thursday have been killed in Syrian air strikes on Mare' town in the north of Aleppo, activists said.  Activists said two families were killed in a vacuum missile launched by Syrian warplanes on the town of Mare'.  Bashar...

 The hardline Ahrar al-Sham group in Syria and other insurgents seized a crossing in the southwest frontier area near Israel on Thursday from a small group of rival Islamist fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. If confirmed, the capture would...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  Many intelligence reports revealed close follow-up of Syrian regime to the air strikes of U.S.-led Coalition against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and other hard-liners Islamist groups. The air strikes targeted bases of the...

Fatah Army on Wednesday has seized control of al-Joma military base, pressing hard to capture the own of Ariha and al-Mastoma camp, activists said Wednesday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said the alliance of Islamist groups including the Nusra Front, has engaged in heavy fighting with Syrian...

Western and Arab demands for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have fueled years of unnecessary bloodshed as they have prevented negotiations on a political settlement, Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Iran's top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syrian air strikes on  Aleppo and Idlib northern Syria, activists and monitoring group said Wednesday. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people, including 2 children, were killed in barrel-bomb attack on...

The European Union's top diplomat on Tuesday voiced the hope that Iran would play an important but constructive role in a renewed United Nations push to restart negotiations aimed at ending the four-year civil war in Syria. The U.N. envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said he will...