(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozen of the US-backed forces were killed and wounded by unknown assailants in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Sunday. The attack targeted the Kurdihs Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in the town of al-Jerzi, four day after an ambush left two fighters from...

Syrian regime forces have denied exit to members of the White Helmets civil defense agency and their families to opposition-held Idlib province amid an evacuation deal from Quneitra province, according to the group’s chief.   Riyad Salih said on Sunday that the evacuation of the...

Russian and Syrian jets stepped up their bombing of a Daesh bastion along the Jordan-Israel border in southwestern Syria, as the militants pushed into areas abandoned by other rebel groups, diplomatic and opposition sources said. Daesh-affiliated forces entrenched in the Yarmouk Basin,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- After seven hours of being held by a Shiite militia at the gate of central Homs city, 55 evacuation buses have continued their way to northern Idlib province, activists said Sunday. Asaeb Ahll al-Haq has blocked the evacuation route of hundreds of rebels and their...

Jordan has allowed the UN to organize the passage of some 800 members of the White Helmets civil defense agency for humanitarian reasons, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.  According to a Saturday statement, ministry spokesman Mohamed al-Kayed said Amman responded to a request...

Britain said on Saturday it had arrested Akin Ipek, a Turkish businessman accused of links to US-exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, following an extradition request from Turkey. "We can confirm that Mr Ipek has been arrested in relation to an extradition request from Turkey," a Home Office...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian forces on Saturday have freed 114 people in eastern Raqqa province after one month in detention, local activists said. Most of the freed people were civilians along with fighters from Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa, the rival group to the US-backed Syrian...

The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed joint humanitarian efforts in Syria, particular in the eastern Ghouta province, during a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday. On Friday, France sent 50 tonnes of medical aid to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A conjoined twin boys have died in northern Idlib proivnce on Saturday, medic told Zaman al-Wasl. The boys suffered heart failure and passed away  two hour after their birth. Dr Ali Hashoum, Director of Kiwan hospital said the siamise twins were joined at...

A first convoy of evacuees from Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province arrived in opposition-held Idlib province on Saturday, in line with an agreement between the Bashar al-Assad regime and armed opposition groups.  The convoy of 40 buses carried around 500 evacuees, according to...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed on Friday while they were looting properties of a newly-evacuated town in southern Syria, locl news site said. Suweida 24, media outlet based in Suweida province, said the pro-regime fighters were killed in the town...

Claims that Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, among other central cities, will be under Turkey’s control have arisen. Before Syria was ravaged by war, Aleppo hosted a population of 5.5 million people, but 75 percent of the city was emptied in 2013 after the opposition left. Once under...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An evacuation bus rammed into a group of rebels and their families in southwestern Quneitra province, killing at least three of them, according to footage posted online Friday. No confirmed reports if the ramming incident was intentional by the pro-regime...

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Friday it had sent detailed proposals to Washington on organizing the return of refugees to Syria after agreements reached by President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, the RIA news agency said. Trump and Putin met at a summit in...

U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed regime forces close in on the area. Two officials familiar with the plans said Thursday that the U.S., Britain and...

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to fire the bodyguard who was caught on camera hitting a May Day protester after "new facts" emerged about the alleged misdemeanor, the president's office said on Friday. The man was also being questioned by police on Thursday over the...

The United Nations refugee agency appealed to all sides in Syria on Friday to provide safe passage for 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting in the southwest so that they can receive aid and shelter. The UNHCR also said it was ready to discuss with Syria and Russia their plan to set up...

Khaled’s delicate hands were accustomed to cutting and styling hair in his Syrian hometown Harasta. Now, they’re hauling concrete and sweeping floors in order to repair homes ravaged by years of fighting.Mountains of rubble still block many of the main thoroughfares in Harasta, a town outside...

Former Syrian rebel commander Omar Melhem has nearly come full circle. He was a colonel in the Syrian regime army when the uprising against Bashar Assad began in 2011. He defected a year later and joined the armed revolt against the Syrian leader. Then, when Assad’s forces marched into...

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Thursday he has received no new guidance from the Pentagon on cooperating with Russia in Syria following a U.S.-Russia summit that Moscow says focused heavily on Syria. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters...