ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime armed forces have pressed rapid advances in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, seeking to break the siege imposed by Islamic rebels on two Shi’ite towns, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Rebel commanders...

(AFP)- Lebanon has all but closed its borders to refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, overwhelmed by an influx of over one million people displaced by fighting, UN and Lebanese officials said Saturday. Quoted by Lebanon's Al-Akhbar newspaper, Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas...

(AFP)- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday rejected calls for Turkey to arm the main Kurdish party in Syria, describing the group as a terrorist organisation. Erdogan said the Democratic Union Party (PYD) was the same as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which...

Reporting by Mohamed AL Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed AL HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 830 Syrian displaced families in al-Hasakah province north Syria are expected to face harsh Winter as floods uprooted their...