The wilted palms and pomegranate trees at the entrance to Baghouz were struggling to survive, much like diehard Islamic State group fighters in the Syrian village. Pinned down in a patch less than half a square kilometre, the jihadists faced intermittent air strikes by the US-led coalition...

U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total defeat as U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of “100 percent victory”. Jiya Furat said...

Regime bombardment has killed 18 civilians in the last major region outside regime control in northwest Syria over the past 48 hours, a war monitor said Saturday. Artillery and rocket fire launched by regime forces took the lives of eight children, seven women and three men in the Idlib...

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Friday that President Donald Trump would ask European countries to send troops to establish a buffer zone in northeast Syria along Turkey’s southern border.  Graham's remarks came at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.  Emphasizing the...

Russia will respect international humanitarian law in Syria’s Idlib, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday. Addressing the annual Munich Security Conference, Lavrov said efforts are currently underway in Idlib, to implement the memorandum signed last year between Moscow and Ankara...

 The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will capture Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria “in a very short time”, the battle commander said on Saturday. The victory will bring the jihadist group, whose self-proclaimed caliphate once stretched across swathes of Syria and...

"Large numbers" of civilians remain inside the last Islamic State group enclave in Syria prompting a fresh delay in a final advance, Kurdish-led forces said on Saturday. "There are still civilians inside in large numbers," US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Adnan Afrin told AFP...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that the Syrian regime is preparing to issue one of the largest reservation lists on the movable and immovable funds of a very large number of ex-employees who left the country. Lists of 40,000 names are ready to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bombardment by militias loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed at least 9 civilians, mostly two children and women, in the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, activists said Friday. The heavy artillery fire has targeted the town of Khan Sheikhoun for the second...

Zaman al-Wasl has received a new torture testimony against Colonel Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian Intelligence officer was arrested in Germany with one more ex-officer on Tuesday on charges of carrying out or aiding in crimes against humanity, including torture of anti-regime activists....

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said U.S.-backed fighters seized the last Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria on Saturday after the jihadists who were still there surrendered. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. The UK-based war monitoring group said the last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Even though many dangers and possibility of dying while trying to reach a better life in order to escape the hell of bombardment and poverty, the attempts to enter Syrian territory through smuggling routes continues.  Many people call this a suicidal act, but...

President Donald Trump on Friday said there will be a U.S. announcement on Syria in the next 24 hours, as European allies and Russia wait to see how he will carry out his December decision to withdrawal all 2,000 U.S. troops from the country. "We have a lot of great announcements having...

The U.N. and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent have delivered badly-needed humanitarian assistance to more than 40,000 displaced people in a tent settlement near the Jordanian border. The World Health Organization said Friday that the delivery to the Rukban camp in southeast Syria took place...

An Indonesian militant who appeared on an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propaganda video showing the execution of a hostage and was said to be close to the militant group's leader was killed in Syria last month, an Indonesian police spokesman and his brother said. Muhammad...

Lenora Lemke sits in a car packed with all her belongings, shielded from the desert sun by a large carpet that hangs over the roof. The 19-year-old tugs at the hijab that frames her pale face and tries to remember the last time she took a shower. She realizes it's been exactly 20 days since she...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Monday has raided Daesh sleeper cells in Dana town in the northern Idlib province, activists said. Two Daesh militants and a child girl were killed due to the clashes between the former al-Qaeda branch and ISIS. Seven more jihadists were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Getting married was a moot point among many Syrian refugees in Germany on social media, due to the high bride prices required and the cost of marriage in general.   "I want to get married, I want to spend my life with a partner" said Firas Shouaib. Firas...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Red Crescent on Sunday reported first case of leprosy in al-Hol refugee camp in the northeastern province of Hasaka. The medical team of the  Kurdish Red Crescent said it  had diagnosed a leprosy case for an Iraqi refugee woman who had...

The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top U.S. commander overseeing American forces in the Middle East said on Sunday. U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command,...