During a lull in regime bombardment, Abu Abdu al-Sarmani drove a pick-up hurtling into his wrecked hometown in Syria's Idlib province to grab his family's belongings a day after they fled. The northwestern town of Khan Sheikhun is supposed to be protected by an internationally brokered...

Torched tents, a rain of bullets, the thunderous whoosh of warplanes muffling the call to prayer: survivors say life inside the Islamic State group's dying "caliphate" was a bleak catalogue of despair. The crackle and thud of gunfire and shelling filled the air as plumes of thick black...

Turkey is committed to defending Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday  Restoring Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity in "full scale" is the ultimate goal of the Astana format for Syrian peace with Turkey and Iran, Sergey...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians, including a woman, were killed in regime artillery fire on a rebel-held area in the coastal Latakia province, activists said Thursday. Two more children were wounded due to the bombardment.  The artillery rounds have also...

 Hundreds of Islamic State fighters surrendered on Wednesday and hundreds more of their jihadist comrades were caught trying to escape the hardline group’s last, tiny scrap of land in eastern Syria, said a commander in the militia besieging it. Islamic State fighters holed up in the...

Veiled women carrying babies and wounded men on crutches hobbled out of Baghouz on Wednesday after US-backed forces pummelled the last jihadist village in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces leading the assault expected more fighters to surrender with their families in tow before...

Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria captured around 400 Islamic State group jihadists as they attempted to slip out of their besieged enclave of Baghouz, a senior officer said Wednesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces intercepted a large group trying to escape from the village, the last tiny...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 troops from coastal Tartus province were killed in January and February, pro-regime media activists said. The death toll included four army officers. The Alawites-dominated areas are still the main manpower supply for Bashar al-Assad's regime. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A wife of Syrian journalist held captive by the military intelligence to press her wanted husbanded surrenders himself to the security in southern Daraa province , local activists said Tuesday. The military intelligence forces stopped and arrested wife of Mohamed...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he agrees with the decision to keep a military presence in Syria. His comments come two months after he abruptly announced Washington would be pulling all forces from the region. NBC News obtained a copy of a letter sent by a group of lawmakers...

An influx of thousands of people fleeing Islamic State has created “dire” conditions at the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, the aid agencies working there said on Tuesday. About 15,000 people have arrived at the camp in the last week alone as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

Hundreds of Islamic State militants have surrendered as they left the group’s last enclave in eastern Syria amid more than 6,500 people, mostly civilians, who were evacuated in the last 24 hours, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said on Tuesday. Islamic...

Hundreds of civilians streamed out of the Islamic State group's last Syrian stronghold Tuesday into territory held by US-backed forces battling to finish off the jihadists' dying "caliphate". A total of 3,500 people exited the riverside village of Baghouz, including 500 jihadists who had...

Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain's wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded in the coalition drone strike that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Chef Mohamed al-Khalidi, has won, at an international festival held in France recently, the award of Best Refugee Chefs in the World.  The World Restaurant Award has created this award to welcome refugees, and to speed the integration of the refugee chefs....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- From Morocco, a Syrian housewife narrats chapters of her story, which may summarize the situation of ‘Syrian diaspora’ and its tragic dimensions, especially in countries where the Syrian refugees can not obtain a residence or a job opportunity. Zahra Mohamed, mother...

A border gate between Turkey and northern Syria’s Afrin region is ready and will be opened next week, Turkey’s Trade Minister was quoted by state media as saying on Tuesday, advancing a project aimed at speeding up aid and equipment flows. The border crossing is dubbed “Olive Branch”, named...

A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting Daesh (ISIS) says thousands of people, including militants, have left the last area held by the extremists in Syria. Mustafa Bali tweeted that about 3,000 came out of the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria on Monday through a...

The Syrian military has mounted air strikes against Islamic State militants and clashed with the jihadists in central Syria, the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper reported on Tuesday. The flare-up in the area of al-Sukhna, between Palymra and Deir al-Zor, on Monday points to the foothold the...

Some 200 Islamic State fighters surrendered after a ferocious battle over their last shred of territory in eastern Syria, but around 1,000 may still be holding out, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling them said on Monday. The jihadist group faces defeat in Baghouz on the...