U.S.-backed forces now control 40 percent of the Islamic State-held Syrian city of Manbij after new advances in the last day that secured them key areas inside the strategic city near the Turkish border, a monitor said on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl’s correspondent in Aleppo refuted news circulated on pro-regime media outlets, and local and international news agencies about families besieged in Aleppo’s eastern neighborhoods leaving to regime controlled areas visa a humanitarian passage.  The...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In Syria's forgotten villages and cities of populations left to killing, displacement and destruction in silence. No reports to describe their plight and they do not pass in a breaking news piece on screens and websites.  They are forgetting in media, in relief,...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A woman was burned in Palmyra city by Iraqi shiite militias fighting in support of Bashar al-Assad, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Sources said that whoever returned to Palmyra returned under pressure of hard conditions of displacement or under threat clarfiying that the woman...