(Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- While Assad’s regime is preoccupied in bombing civilians and fighting rebels to lay the foundations of its rule and setting things in his favor, and as its security services are arresting whoever has the...

BEIRUT: Lebanese airborne troops conducted thorough searches along the eastern mountain range bordering Syria Wednesday, as part of measures to curb infiltration of the porous border by gunmen and arms. The National News Agency (NNA) said the combing operations were carried out in...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria urged a newly appointed international mediator to be "objective and honest" as he seeks an end to the country's civil war, Syrian state television reported on Wednesday. It was Damascus's first reaction to the appointment of Staffan de Mistura by...

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Six children from the same family were killed in an air strike by government forces on a village in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing local residents, said three boys and three girls from the...

(Reporting by Zeina al-Chofi; Translation Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Alwasl- The Free Syrian Army “FSA” and other Islamic groups have discovered tons on food in ISIS’s Emir’s home in Yalda. Sayyah Abo Tayyara, known as “Farrama”, ISIS’s Emir in Southern Damascus, managed to run...

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SANLIURFA – One Turkish soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an armed attack on Turkey's border post with Syria late on Monday. "The security forces on duty in Doruklu border post in the Ceylanpinar district of southeastern Sanliurfa province were shot...

BEIRUT (AFP)- Syrian rebels battled jihadists from the Islamic State of   Iraq   and Greater   Syria   (ISIS) near   Damascus   Monday, pressing their bid to expel them from their strongholds, an activist group said. Rebels holding positions in...

By Mohamed Al Hussein- Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl- Al Hasakah)- The Kurdish National Council (KNC) in Syria , in statement issued Saturday, refused to impose a compulsory service on their men by the Democratic Union Party (PYD)...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abo Dijana, ٍٍS haria judge of the Islamic State group in Southern Damascus has been killed on Saturday, according to activists and rebel sources. Qate’a Abo Bakr al-Siddik (dubbe: Abo Dijana) was killed in...

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(Reuters) - Militant group Islamic State killed 270 soldiers, guards and staff when they captured a Syrian gas field on Thursday in the bloodiest clash yet between the al Qaeda offshoot and President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The anti-Assad...

Damascus, July 19 (IANS) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Saturday appointed Najah Attar as the new vice president, media reported. Najah Attar has served as the vice president for cultural affairs since 2006 and the new presidential decree has appointed her as the sole vice...

(Al Jazeera)- Syrian government forces have launched a counterattack to recapture a gas field seized by the Islamic State group, activists say, even as the death toll from three days of fighting there rises to 270. The intense fighting in the Shaer field, which lies in the...