Reporting by Mohamed AL Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has intensified efforts to recruit young men in its armed forces or its backed militias in Hasaka province northeast Syria. There was weak...
(Reuters)- Syrian Kurds battled on Saturday with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, Kurdish sources and a monitoring group said, breaking a longstanding tacit agreement between the two sides to focus on other enemies in a complex civil war. In...
(Reuters) - Several hundred U.S. military trainers will begin moving to the Middle East in the next four to six weeks amid efforts to start training this spring for moderate Syrian opposition forces who will battle Islamic State fighters, the Pentagon said on Friday. The U.S....
(Reuters) - The Syrian state news agency on Friday attacked U.S. military plans to train and equip Syrian rebels, saying they amounted to support for terrorists. The plan is part of the U.S. strategy to roll back the Islamic State group that has seized much of eastern and...
(Reuters) - U.N. aid workers have started delivering food to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district of Homs city in Syria following negotiations with warring parties, officials said on Friday. In the absence of a nationwide peace deal, relief groups...
(Reuters) - Islamic State has executed a Syrian it accused of belonging to a militant cell that ambushed its fighters and blew up its vehicles in the town of al-Mayadin near the border with Iraq , a monitoring group that tracks the conflict said on Thursday. Islamic State...
(AFP)- Five Canadians have died fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria, including a man who called for lone wolf attacks in Canada, local media reported Wednesday. The National Post said Ottawa-born John Maguire, who joined ISIS jihadis in Syria in January 2013, died...
(Anadolu Agency)- The Obama administration’s Syrian envoy discussed the planned train and equip mission for Syrian rebels during recent meetings in Istanbul, Central Command said Wednesday. Special Envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein met with Syrian opposition leaders...
BEIRUT (AP)- Activists say Syrian rebels and local government officials have agreed to a truce in the last opposition-held area of the central city of Homs. Activist Beibars al-Tilawi said the 10-day truce beginning Thursday will allow more food to enter the al-Waar...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many civil associations in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus appealed on Wednesday to the United Nations, and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and all humanitarian bodies in...
U.S.-led forces launched 18 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq in the past 24 hours, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Twelve of the strikes were in Iraq, mostly in northern areas where the militants have seized territory, and targeted tactical units, buildings...
(Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday Syrian opposition representatives would risk losing influence in peace efforts if they do not attend planned talks in Moscow. The refusal of prominent opposition figures to attend the Jan. 26-29 meeting, intended...
BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- Attorney General Charbel Abu Samra Wednesday issued a bench warrant against Al-Jazeera journalist Faisal Qassem after he failed to show up to two hearings in the lawsuit filed against him for criticizing the Lebanese Army, judicial sources told The Daily...
Syrian forces killed six people in an alleged airstrike in southern Daraa province’s Daraa Balad district, an opposition group said Wednesday. The General Commission of the Syrian Revolution said in a statement that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
(Reuters)- Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, Nusra Front, shot dead a woman in the northwest of the country after accusing her of adultery, an activist group said Wednesday, saying it showed such execution-style killings were not confined to the militant ISIS. ISIS, which split from...
Washington (AFP)- A group declaring sympathy for the Islamic State jihadist group hacked US Central Command's Twitter account and YouTube page Monday, posting internal military documents online. The self-declared Cybercaliphate "is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military...
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of the Croatian Democratic Union was declared winner of Croatia's presidential run-off with 50,43 percent of the vote, the country's electoral commission announced late Sunday at the press conference held in Zagreb. Her rival, incumbent President Ivo...
PARIS (AP) — French security forces are mobilizing in their search for what the prime minister called a "probably accomplice" to three days of bloodshed and terror around the capital, as well as to try to ensure the safety of the French people. Manuel Valls said the search is urgent...
More than 27 Syrian people have frozen to death since 2011 March during Syria’s ongoing civil war, a Syrian human rights group said Sunday. According to pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 27 people, including 16 children and three women have lost their...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The tragedy of people under siege in southern Damascus is getting worse with Syria's harsh winter and cold weather, with closing the only crossing point to area, the situation reached to unprecedented levels of difficulty....
