(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 SDF fighters killed by Daesh in northeastern Hasaka province, local activist said Saturday. Mohamed al-Kheder, Hasaka-based activist said the Daesh surprise attack took place near the town of la-Shadadi in the southern side of Hasaka late on Friday....

The Jordanian army began delivering humanitarian aid to thousands of displaced Syrians who took shelter near its border when major fighting broke out in southern Syria this month, a government spokeswoman said Saturday. "This is in line with Jordan's stance to help our Syrian brothers,"...

Negotiations between the Syrian opposition groups and Russia on Saturday could not end with a peace deal in the southern Daraa province. According to local sources, Russian delegation and the opposition forces -- who are under attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime forces lately -- met to...

A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule Saturday as rebel lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, deeply alarmed by the military offensive in southwestern Syria and its devastating toll on civilians, is calling for an immediate cessation of military operations, his spokesman said Friday. Noting that the southwest area of Syria is part of a...

Turkish military chief Gen. Hulusi Akar on Friday visited military brigades stationed on the border with Syria. Akar was accompanied by Land Forces Commander Yasar Guler, Air Forces Commander Hasan Kucukakyuz, and Naval Forces Commander Adnan Ozbal, according to Anadolu Agency...

The Pentagon said Friday said the U.S. or the anti-Daesh coalition will not involve itself in the Syrian regime's attacks on rebel-held towns in southern Syria. Speaking at a news conference, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon was asked by an Anadolu Agency reporter whether the U.S. is...

 Earlier this month, Maya Merhi, 8, born with no legs due to a congenital condition, was moving around a Syrian displaced persons camp on artificial limbs made of plastic tubing and tin cans. But after pictures of her plight, including those taken by AFP in Syria, were seen around the...

The number of displaced people in southern Syria has more than tripled to 160,000 in the latest fighting, the U.N. refugee agency’s Jordan spokesman Mohammad Hawar said on Friday. "We expect the numbers during the night to rise further," Hawar said. The last U.N. figure issued Monday...

A Jordanian official source said Friday there were confirmed reports of a ceasefire in southern Syria that would lead to "reconciliation" between the opposition and government forces. The source did not elaborate further on the reports of an agreement in the territory where Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have made prisoner swap with regime army in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Friday. Two regime troops were freed by the SDF in the town of al-Salhiya in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. In return, the regime...

Israel must prevent the entry of refugees fleeing fighting in Syria, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said Friday. The remarks by Yuval Steinitz, energy minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, came on the same day that the Israeli military said it had transferred...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will have a detailed discussion about the Syrian conflict when they meet at their first official summit in July, the Kremlin said on Friday. The meeting, to be held on July 16 in Helsinki, is likely to worry some U.S....

The Syrian regime army battled rebels in an important town in southwest Syria Thursday, a media unit run by its ally Hezbollah’s war media center said, as intensifying air strikes killed dozens of people in the area. Bashar Assad has sworn to take back every inch of Syria, and...

Syria's chief opposition negotiator Nasr al-Hariri Thursday decried "U.S. silence" over a Syrian government offensive in southwest Syria, where Washington agreed a "de-escalation" zone last year with Jordan and Damascus' ally Russia. Speaking in Riyadh, he said that only a "malicious...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia has withdrawn 1,140 military personnel and 13 warplanes from Syria in last few days. "As you know, we started withdrawing our forces during my visit to Hmeimim base. This withdrawal continues now," Putin said at a ceremony for...

Women and children crammed in the back of pick-up trucks piled high with mattresses and blankets, dozens of Syrian refugees in Lebanon began crossing the border Thursday, heading back home to an uncertain future in war-torn Syria. The small exodus is part of a repatriation that the...

 A barrage of airstrikes hit rebel-held areas in southwestern Syria on Thursday, killing at least 23 civilians, including 12 children, hiding in an underground shelter as regime forces pressed their offensive to reclaim a region that was until recently part of a negotiated truce....

Russia announced on Wednesday that the cease-fire deal with the U.S. and Jordan in Syria's south is over. Khmeimim Air Base in the port city of Latakia said on Twitter that the cease-fire was violated by opposition forces.  "Khmeimim Air Base announces end of agreement to...

 Opposition groups in Syria’s southwestern Daraa province have vowed to resist regime forces as the Syrian regime pushed ahead with a deadly military offensive in the opposition stronghold that killed 11 civilians on Wednesday.   On Monday, regime forces and allied militias...