(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 60 U.S.-backed fighters were killed by Daesh (ISIS) and 30 more were taken captive in the past two days  as clashes intensified in eastern Deir Ezzor province , Amaq news agency said Sunday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pressed to uproot...

Hundreds of female protesters took to the streets of the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli Sunday to call for an end to violence against women. Some banging large drums and others ululating, they marched through the streets, an AFP correspondent said. "Underage marriage...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Popular Resistance on Sunday launched an attack on the checkpoints of the Syrian regime  forces in the southern town of Al-Sanamayn, leaving dozen killed and wounded, the rebel group said.  The dawn attack marks an end to false reconciliations deals in...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes struck rebel territory in northwest Syria for the first time since Russia and Turkey agreed to create a buffer zone in September. The British-based activist group said the airstrikes hit the suburbs west of Aleppo city, near Idlib...

Turkey on Saturday welcomed the prisoner swap in Syria, saying mutual and simultaneous release of the detainees builds confidence between the sides in the war-torn country.  In a written statement, Turkish Foreign Ministry said several persons detained by the opposition groups and...

Syrian rebels have dismissed government accusations they used poison gas to attack government-held Aleppo city. Rebel commander Abdel-Salam Abdel-Razak says the opposition doesn’t possess poisonous gases or the capabilities to lob them. Abdel-Razak served in Syria’s chemical weapons...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese State Intelligence has referred Zaman al-Wasl reporter, Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani for the Public Prosecution after four days of detention. Al-Houlani, who lives in Arsal's refugee camps, was not charged with a crime or offence.  He was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Popular Resistance in southern Daraa province said Saturday it had killed two regime troops, including an officer, vowing more guerrilla attacks in the coming days. The new tactic of rebels in Daraa followed a humiliating reconciliation deal which reached due to the...

Syrian regime shelling killed seven children and two women on Saturday in northern rebel-held Idlib province, where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone, a monitoring group said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said shells hit Jarjanaz village which lies on the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of people have fled the town of al-Hajin as clashes intensified between Daesh (ISIS) and the US-backed forces in eastern Syria, local activists said Saturday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have pressed to uproot Daesh militants from their last...

Turkey has repeatedly conveyed its “discomfort” to the U.S. officials over their country’s planned observation points in northern Syria, Turkish defense minister said on Saturday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency following a ceremony to mark Turkey’s Teachers Day, Hulusi Akar said he spoke...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After more than seven years, during which Libya has hosted tens of thousands of Syrians who were allowed to live there without valid passports, and without having to deal with the bureaucratic procedures of official papers, the question is now pressing: are they now treated any...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Disability of Marwan Sweidan never has been a barrier or a shield to stop going on.  He fled with his family, including a war-disabled child, the town of Karnaz in the northwestern province of Hama to the Turkish border town of Reyhanlı like...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fresh Satellite pictures reveal that Iran and the Syrian regime have started the construction of missile facilities hit by Israel last September in northwestern Hama province. A quick rehabilitation and reconstruction process is under underway in the base of Sheikh...

Turkish and Russian defense ministers discussed latest situation in Syria's norhwestern Idlib and Tal Rifaat in a phone conversation on Saturday, according to Turkish official sources. The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Hulusi Akar and Sergei Shoigu discussed regional...

Russia does not want any "artificial deadlines" for the Syrian peace process, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, saying those who do want to sabotage Russian-backed peace efforts. "I don't believe in artificial deadlines," Lavrov told the MED Dialogues conference in Rome....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of people on Friday came out to the streets of rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces to rally against the Syria regime and the key ally Russia, in spite of a fragile buffer zone deal and mounting skirmishes between hardline groups and regime army. As...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Raed al-Fares and Hamoud Junaid, two Syrian pro-democracy activists and citizen journalists, were shot dead Friday by Syria's former al-Qaeda branch in the village of Kafrabel in northern Idlib province.  Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by formerly-known...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian forces arrested senior Daesh (ISIS) commanders in eastern Deir Ezzor province, activists said Thursday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces backed by the US Army have raided the villages of al-Buhaira and al-Tayyaneh near al-Hajin town. Three...

Nearly eight years into the Syrian war, Selim still refuses to perform his military service, just like many fellow Druze from Swaida province rejecting the regime’s conscription call. “I don’t want to get involved in the Syrian bloodbath,” said the 27-year-old, who gave a pseudonym for fear of...