U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State in Syria launched a new phase of their offensive on Thursday, a statement said, but they have not yet begun to attack the militant group's stronghold of Raqqa city in an apparent delay in the operation. The multi-phased campaign by the Syrian...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The  Kurdish Democratic Union militia handed its checkpoints over to the Assyrian fighters in the villages of Khabur area in Hasaka province, such a step towards the Assyrian self-Administration. According to Assyrian sources, the Democratic Union Party handed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is unable to supply sufficient quantities of bread and foodstuffs in eastern Deir Ez Zor city, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Jalal al-Hamd, the director of the Justice Observatory for Life in Deir Ez Zor,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists in northeastern Damascus district of Barzeh  accused the local aid office of practicing a policy of starving the neighborhood’s remaining residents to force them to accept a “reconciliation” with the regime. ,Such a reconciliation would involve...