The once-sprawling "caliphate" of Daesh (ISIS) has been reduced to a four-square-kilometer pocket of territory in eastern Syria, a senior Kurdish commander said Monday. With support from a U.S.-led military coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces are in the final stages of an assault...

Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has detained scores of residents in Idlib, following the capture of the province by the jihadi group this month, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. At least 11 civilian residents had been working documenting abuses by HTS or protesting against the...

Turkey is aiming to form safe zones in northern Syria so that around 4 million of Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey could return, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Istanbul, Erdogan also said nearly 300,000 Syrians had already returned and that he expected millions...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The spread of Iranian goods in rebel-held areas has aroused resentment among the traders and residents as accusations directed to the powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which controls the crossings. The ‘Salvation Government’, a domestic governing body close to Tahrir...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Sunday have stepped up its aerial and ground bombardment on rebel-held areas in Hama and Idlib provinces where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone in September, local reporter said Sunday. At least 14 towns and villages came under...

The wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has undergone a "successful" operation as part of treatment for early-stage breast cancer, the presidency said on Sunday. "Asma al-Assad continues her treatment against the malignant tumour," it said on its Facebook page. "Breast...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- ‘One Day in Aleppo’, a documentary by a Syrian investigative journalist, tells the story of the resistance of Syrian people in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city before being fell to regime control after deadly offensive in 2017. Ali al-Ibrahim captured...

The new U.N. special envoy for Syria held talks Sunday with the head of the Arab League, whose members appear divided about whether to readmit the war-torn country. The League, which will hold its annual summit in Tunisia in March, suspended Syria's membership in November 2011 as the...

Syrian state-run media is reporting that the country's air defense systems have destroyed three "hostile" targets in the country's coastal region over a Russian air base. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says explosions heard Sunday resulted from the air defense...

Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of the the last holdout of Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria, an activist group said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, are battling to expel the last militants from hamlets in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Activists surfaced online a video shows a camp owner, in the northern Lebanese town of Miniyeh expelling a Syrian refugee family for not paying $87 (125,000 LP) the rent of the tent. The distressing video shows the fire of Khadija al-Hussein and her three children ourt...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Friday blocked the crossing of 400 tribal figures from northeastern Syria to regime-held Hama province to participate in a conference denouncing Turkish intervention in Syria, local sources said.   The tribal figures...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led forces, backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, have been so close to uproot Daesh (ISIS) from   the eastern province of Deir Ezzor  as the militants besieged in tiny enclave in Baghouz village, activists said Friday.  The US-backed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed military source said the recent Israeli airstrikes were the most destructive and 'painful' strikes the Syrian regime and the Iranian ally have ever inflicted.  According to the source, the strikes sparked a real fear within the regime’s inner...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four explosions rocked the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo province on Thursday, leaving one child girl killed and 20 more civilians wounded, local activists said. Four motorbikes laden with explosives hit the towns of al-Ghandoura, Qabassin and al-Bab in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee man stabbed his wife to death overnight in the German province of Hessen, local media outlets reported Thursday. The 22-year-old refugee wife and the mother of two was brutally killed by her husband in a pre-dawn quarrel in a town near Frankfurt...

These events are accounted by the former prisoner Aida Hajj Yousif.   In the terrorist wing in Adra central prision near the capital, we woke up on news of intensive bombings in Hama, the city where my kids live. I was unable to communicate with them for a while and I was waiting...

Even as the United States plans its military withdrawal from Syria, it has taken a step towards increasing political and economic pressure on the regime of Bashar Al Assad. The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill late on Tuesday night that will allow the White House to...

The light reaches only a short way down the six-story ventilation shaft, at the bottom of which Ahmad al-Zoubi was found dead three days after he went missing. The shaft is a crude construction that reaches into the bowels of a smartly clad residential building in Verdun. It sits in the...

Nearly 5,000 people, including almost 500 Islamic State fighters, have since Monday left the jihadist group's last bastion in eastern Syria, where IS continues to lose ground, a Britain-based monitor said. Kurdish-led forces, backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, have been...