Christians in Aleppo celebrated under a giant Christmas tree lit up for the first time in five years, hailing what many described as the return of peace to a city that came back under full government control last week. The fall of rebel-held east Aleppo was the biggest victory of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Sunday freed a prominent Islamist scholar after 12  years in detention, such a release has sparked worries by opposition activists who accused Damascus of fueling radicalism. Sheikh Hassan Soufan, who was released in a prisoner swap deal, has spent over a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A fanatic fighter, who appeared in a disturbing footage convincing his two young daughters to take part in suicide missions, has been killed by rebel fighters in Damascus suburbs on Sunday. Abu Nimr, or Abdul Rahman Shadad was shot dead by unknown rebels in al-Qaboun a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces on Sunday took a ground from the Islamic State in the western countryside of Raqqa, the group's de facto caliphate capital, according to statement posted online. The YPG-led forces its military campaign, so-called Euphrates Anger, had...