(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes erupted late on Saturday between powerful Tahrir al-Sham group and Daesh militants  in the northern town of Bennish, leaving a child dead, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu al-Harreth, the security officer of Tahrir al-Sham, told Zaman al-Wasl the...

Syria's Kurds warned Sunday that the thousands of foreign jihadists they have detained in their fight against the Islamic State group are a time-bomb the international community urgently needs to defuse. Speaking a day after Kurdish-led forces announced the final demise of the jihadists'...

A driver working with an NBC News crew in Syria has been killed by an explosive device in eastern Syria, where several media outlets are covering the liberation of the last sliver of territory held by Daesh (ISIS). Noah Oppenheim, the president of NBC News, said in a statement that NBC...

Syrian state media on Saturday cited a hospital in government-held Hama as saying 21 people suffered choking symptoms from poison gas after rebels shelled a village. A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said 21 people were hospitalized with choking...

More than 630 civilians were killed in the six-month operation against Daesh (ISIS) that culminated in its defeat by US-backed Syrian forces Saturday, a monitor said. The civilian dead -- among them relatives of Daesh fighters -- included 209 children and 157 women, the Syrian Observatory...

Druze on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday took to the streets in protest at US President Donald Trump's pledge to recognise the Jewish state's sovereignty there. Trump broke with decades of US Middle East policy, and longstanding international consensus, when he posted a Tweet...

The top military commander in Syria's autonomous Kurdish region urged Damascus on Saturday to choose the path of dialogue after his forces sealed a key victory over the Islamic State group. "We call on the central government in Damascus to prefer the process of dialogue," Mazloum Kobane,...

 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that a “major danger for France” had been eliminated, after U.S.-backed forces said they had captured Islamic State’s last shred of territory in eastern Syria at Baghouz. “A huge step has been taken today. A major danger for our...

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally announced the destruction of Islamic State’s control of land in eastern Syria on Saturday but said it would continue its military and security campaigns against jihadist sleeper cells. At a televised ceremony, its general command called on...

The death toll from Russian airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province has risen to 15, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency on Saturday.   Earlier reports said ten people had been killed when Russian warplanes struck opposition-held areas in Idlib’s Al-Fuah,...

Islamic State has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared “caliphate” that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria. The SDF declared the “total elimination of...

Now the Islamic State group's "caliphate" has fallen, the hard-won limited autonomy of Syria's Kurds will be left in peril if their key US ally goes ahead with its announced pullout. On Saturday, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced the end of the proto-state that the Sunni...

Here are key developments in the final battle by US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces to conquer the jihadist Islamic State group's last redoubt in Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria. - 'Operation Roundup' - On September 10, 2018, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch the third...

The Syrian Democratic Forces are still battling Daesh (ISIS) at the militants' last pocket at Baghouz in eastern Syria, a spokesperson for the SDF said on Twitter on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the area had been taken. "Heavy fighting continues around mount Baghouz right...

Russia and Syria have invited the U.S. to have a joint discussion on evacuating a refugee camp in southern Syria. The Russian and Syrian refugee return coordination centers urged the U.S. to hold a meeting next week to allow some 40,000 people to leave the Rukban camp near the Jordanian...

Hungarian authorities detained a Syrian man on Friday accused of taking part in beheadings in Syria as a member of Islamic State, Budapest prosecutors and the European judicial co-operation agency Eurojust said. The 27-year-old man, identified by Hungarian authorities as F. Hassan, is...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that U.S.-backed forces had dislodged the Islamic State militant group from its last holdout in Syria. “Here’s ISIS on Election Day. And here’s ISIS right now,” Trump said, using the acronym for the group, as he displayed a before-and-after map to...

Ten civilians were killed when Russian military aircraft conducted a number of airstrikes in opposition-held Idlib on Friday, according to the White Helmets civil-defense agency, Anadolu reports. Russian warplanes took off from the Khmeimim Airbase in Syria’s Latakia province, striking...

US-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria early Friday to flush out holdout jihadists from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate". Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front line in the remote village of Baghouz near the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian refugee Radhwa Hassoun, 43, was able to open her treatment center for  Traditional Chinese medicine  in the Lebanese border town of Arsal. Hassoun says the center is the first of its kind in the Bekaa Valley and the second in Lebanon. “I...