(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said head of the Air Intelligence, Major General Jamil Hassan, is in critical condition after a stroke. The war criminal, 65, was ambulanced from his office in Damascus to al-Shami Hospital in the upper-class suburb of al-Malki. This...

A bomb blast in a northern Syrian town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces killed at least eight people Sunday, activists said, the latest in a series of attacks to hit areas along the border where Turkey has troops. The spike in attacks follows Turkish threats to expand its...

Turkey would consider working with Syrian President Bashar Assad if he won a democratic election, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a conference in Qatar Sunday. Turkey backed the opposition to Assad in the Syrian civil war that broke out in 2011. Assad, whose...

 Zaman Al Wasl reporter, who was arrested by the Lebanese Intelligence over refugee abortion report, has been released on bail after 24 days of detention. Abdul Hafiz Al-Houlani was held by the Lebanese State Intelligence on November 21 after publishing an article about 20 Syrian...

U.S.-led coalition forces destroyed a Daesh (ISIS) command center inside a mosque in the Syrian border town of Hajin Saturday, the U.S. military said. The statement comes as Kurdish-led forces mop up the final remnants of Daesh militants in Hajin, the largest settlement in what is the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes continued Saturday between Daesh (ISIS) and US-led forces inside the village of Hajin as Kurdish officials say the key pocket is not completely controlled, local media activists reported. At least 13 fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been...

Israeli naval forces on Saturday arrested two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s fishermen’s union.  "Israeli naval vessels opened fire on a small Palestinian fishing boat before boarding it and detaining two fishermen," union head...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 500 Syrian displaced have crossed into the Kurdish-held areas in eastern Deir Ezzor province, following the fall of Hajin village, key pocket for Daesh militant group near the Iraqi border. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have allowed the displaced...

Russia, Turkey and Iran will present a list of candidates for the Syrian Constitutional Committee to the UN next week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday. The document is ready and will be presented to the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura next week, Lavrov...

Turkish forces will enter the Syrian town of Manbij if the United States does not remove YPG Kurdish fighters, and it will also target Kurdish-controlled areas further east, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. "Manbij is a place where Arabs live, but they have surrendered the...

A United States-backed Kurdish coalition has captured the last town held by fighters from ISIL in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province. On Friday, an unnamed military source and a war monitor said Hajin was retaken by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish as well as...

Russia's top diplomat says the make-up of a committee meant to draft a new constitution for Syria is nearly complete, with almost all members agreed on. The announcement comes after Syria's warring sides and mediators last month failed to agree on the formation of the committee, which is...

Faraj was born in the pouring rain on a nondescript stretch of desert road in eastern Syria as his family fled escalating fighting over the Islamic State group's last bastion. His family was part of a group of around 200 civilians who managed to escape from a pocket of territory in Deir...

Up to 15,000 Syrian rebels are ready to join a Turkish military offensive against U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, but no date has been set for the operation, a spokesman for the main Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group said Thursday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...

Kurdish-led forces Thursday moved deep into Hajin, the main village in the last pocket still held by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria, an opposition-aligned monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, with support from airstrikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition, deployed across the...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian forces on Wednesday have recaptured the borderline with Iraq from Daesh (ISIS) as heavy clashes enter the third week in the jihadist group's last major foothold.  The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been attempting to take...

At least one person was killed and 21 others were injured in a car bombing in the opposition-held Azaz town in northern Syria on Wednesday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.  The explosion struck near a local hospital in the town, it said.  Rescuers...

Turkey will start an operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria in a "few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move that could further complicate relations with the United States. "We will start the operation to clear the east of the Euphrates from...

Japan on Wednesday selected the Chinese character for "disaster" as its "defining symbol" for 2018, a year that saw the country hit by deadly floods, earthquakes and storms. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual announcement live, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu...

The Iraqi military says its jets have bombed two Daesh (ISIS) positions inside Syria that were being used for as meeting places for the militant group. Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement Tuesday that at least 30 Daesh members were present in one of the locations...