The Assad regime and its allies have continued their low-intensity attacks on Idlib’s de-escalation zone despite a ceasefire agreement, local sources told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.  Regime forces and Iranian-backed terrorist groups have continued to shell villages in rural areas of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will try to discourage Russia from providing Syria with an S-300 air-defense system during his upcoming visit to the U.S., according to Israeli media reports. Netanyahu is scheduled to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, which is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two major relief organizations, pledged to provide "full clarification" about the rumors that has been recently circulated about their officials' meeting with representatives of the regime. The Syrian-American Medical Association (SAMS) and the Union of Medical...

Six months after President Donald Trump said he wants US troops out of Syria, his top officials are hammering home what has become increasingly obvious: the US isn't going anywhere. Trump administration members say there can be no troop pull-out until the Islamic State is permanently...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the Syrian Air Force formed commission of Inquiry to investigae the downing of the downed Russian Ilyushin-20 with 15 troops on board was shot down by a Syrian air defense missile on September 17. M. General Ahmed Balloul, head of the...

 The intensity of a Russia-backed assault on a former rebel stronghold in Syria using suspected chemical weapons and cluster bombs has been laid bare in a new report. The population of eastern Ghouta, an area on the outskirts of Damascus, endured years under a siege enforced by the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian forces took a village from Islamic State militant group in eastern Deir Ezzor province after heavy clashes Tuesday, local activists said.  The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have seized control of al-Shajlah near the strategic Bagouz area,...

Turkish troop reinforcements entered Syria's rebel bastion of Idlib on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, a week after a deal between Ankara and Moscow averted a government offensive. Around 35 military vehicles travelled south down the main highway near the town of Saraqib after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Satellite images showed that the suspected US-led airstrikes on Aleppo city last Friday had targeted weapons depots in the Assad Academy for Military Engineering. The airstrikes rocked what activists reported as an Iranian weapon arsenal and training camps in the...

In rebel-held northern Syria, displaced children sit or lie on the ground of an unfinished villa, bending over their notebooks to apply themselves as they write the day's lesson. Four teachers instruct around 100 children -- girls and boys aged six to 12 -- at the makeshift school in an...

Russia said Monday it would equip Syria with sophisticated air defense systems, a move that could worsen a rift with Israel by limiting its ability to bomb across its northern border. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow would send Russia’s powerful S-300 ground-to-air missile...

Frontier agent: What’s your name?  Aisha: My name is Fatima! Frontier agent: do you have your identity card on you, Fatima? Aisha: I lost it when we left the house. This short interaction between the Iraqi girl Aisha Hameed, 7-year-old, and a member of...

The Kremlin on Monday accused Israeli pilots of "premeditated actions" over the downing of a Russian plane in Syria last week, warning it will harm relations between the two countries. "According to information of our military experts, the reason (behind the downing) were premeditated...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Israeli naval boats have entered the Syrian territorial waters, seeking to find the wreckage of the downed Russian Ilyushin-20 with 15 troops on board was shot down by a Syrian air defense missile on September 17, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Youssef, 6-year-old child, just one among thousands of Syria's lost generation. The school-aged child has not been enrolled in school this September in spite of his dream to be a doctor. The desperate living condition of his family stands as a huge barrier....

Pointing to a green screen as if presenting a weather forecast, Bilal Abdel-Kareem analyzes the Turkish-Russian deal over Syria’s Idlib, broadcasting in his native English from inside the war-torn country’s last rebel stronghold. The 47-year-old American convert to Islam is a long way from where...

The Russian military Sunday said "misleading" information from the Israeli airforce caused the downing of a Russian plane in Syria, and denounced the "adventurism" of Israeli pilots. Military spokesman Igor Konashenkov presented the results of an investigation of how a Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thirst for Knowledge for Aphrodite Atef al-Zuhouri was not quenched by the great success she achieved as the “first” graduate of the English Language Department at the Lebanese University in Beirut.  She did not let the impressive and prolific work offers and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The former detainee Aida al-Haj Yousif, nicknamed: Zina, recounts to ‘Zaman al-Wasl ' a new story which she decides to document for the world; the story of Diana, her cellmate. Diana was arrested while pregnant because her husband was ‘Wanted’ at that time. Under torture, she...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 111-year-old man has been killed by Kurdish-led forces as the US-backed group pressed gains against the Islamic State militant group in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activists said. Sheikh Hassan al-Rahabi was shot dead on Wednesday by a sniper in the village...