(Zaman Al Wasl)- Qassem Soleimani’s last mission in Syria was a visit to a military base in the southern countryside of Aleppo where hundreds of Shiite militias had been dispatched, a Republican Guard officer told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The head of Iran's elite Quds Force, visited...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad on January 1st has promoted 16 Brigadier to the rank of Maj. General and 25 Colonels to the rank of Brigadier General. Most of them gained fame in brutality and killing, each in his field. Zaman al-Wasl has obtained the names of the promoted Major...

Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 3,364 civilians were documented killed in 2019 at the hands of the perpetrator parties to the conflict in Syria, including 234 in December.      According to SNHR , the Syrian regime and allied militias had killed 1,497...

President Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday about the conflict in Libya and fighting in Syria’s Idlib province, according to the White House. “The leaders discussed bilateral and regional issues,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in...

State-run media outlets on Thursday have reported a state of panic among the residents of Barada Valley west of the capital, after dozens of people were hospitalized with diarrhea, abdominal pain and severe vomiting. After a prolonged silence, the regime stated that the polluted water is the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) group has kidnapped four Republican Guard troops near the Dumayr military airbase east of the Damascus, activists said Thursday. The Kidnapped soldiers, originally from Suweida, the main stronghold of Druze community, who has been subjected to a series of...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that up to 250,000 migrants were fleeing from the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib towards Turkey, adding that Ankara was trying to prevent them from crossing its border. Turkey hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee...

Qatar Charity (QC) provided humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced Syrians, including women, children, the elderly, and those most in need. The aid came, as part of Qatar Charity’s winter campaign entitled “Warmth and Peace” to respond urgently to the tragic situation in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 former rebels from Damascus suburbs were killed in 2019 fighting along with  regime forces on the battlefields of Idlib, Hama and Latakia, local news site said Wednesday. Voice of The Capital said the slain fighters had agreed on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Four people, including two children, were killed and 10 wounded Wednesday in a YPG car bomb attack in the Turkish-held town of Suluk in eastern Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion was a powerful one,...

Children play in a prison courtyard, while adults divide a cell inside between several families. Fleeing violence in northwest Syria, they found nowhere else to go. They are among hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by war who are starting the new year far from home in the embattled...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian refugees in Turkey, Ibrahim and Nour al-Zubaybi, decided to donate their wedding budget to the displaced of Idlib province who fled a crushing offensive by Russian-backed regime forces and allied militias, such a gesture touched the hearts of the people around...

Land-to-land missiles fired by Syrian regime forces killed eight civilians including four children in a school in northwestern Syria on Wednesday, a war monitor said. Part of the building in the town of Sarmeen had been turned into a shelter for the displaced, the Britain-based Syrian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed opposition killed senior army officer in a rocket attack on an army base in northern Idlib province, activists said Wednesday. Maj. General Sami Mohamed was killed Tuesday when National Army forces rocked his base with Grad rocket in the town of Khan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed opposition on Tuesday has killed 10 regime troops in northern Idlib province as clashes enter the new year with no sign of an imminent ceasefire deal, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. Three regime troops were killed in eastern Idlib in a Tow missile...

It is “out of the question” for Turkey to evacuate its military observation posts in Syria’s Idlib, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday, after Russian and Syrian forces intensified their bombardment of targets in the northwestern province. Turkey has 12 such posts in Idlib, and at...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The city of Maaret al-Numan has turned into a relative ghost town as Russia-backed forces wage a crushing assault on northern Idlib province that uprooted about 280,000 people from their homes and killed more than 100 people in three weeks. Abadat al-Thikra,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia is due to deploy its military police along the Syrian-Lebanese border as well to control the main border crossings, seeking to freeze Hezbollah’s drug trade and weapons supply routes, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The planned move by Bashar...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rescue worker and two-year-old child were killed Monday in a barrel-bomb attack on Maaret al-Numan, the northern city that turned into a relative ghost town as Russia-backed forces pressed to seize the eastern countryside of Idlib, Civil Defence agency said....