(Zaman Al Wasl)- Brigadier  general  killed by rebels when he was heading the southern Daraa province with his Battalion 242 on Tuesday as regime army sends huge reinforcement to border area with Jordan. Activists said rebels have ambushed Mazen Ahmed Barakat's...

Rebel shellfire slammed into the southern Syrian city of Swaida on Tuesday for the first time in three years, an activist group said, as fresh regime reinforcements arrived in the area. The government holds most of Swaida province but rebels still control much of the nearby Deraa and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Hezbollah militia have pounded a border territory with Jordan, leaving dozen wounded, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. The strategic region of al-Lajat, including the town of al-Masika, has been rocked by hundreds of artillery shells,...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Les rebelles sont en état d'alerte alors que les forces du régime soutenues par le Hezbollah et les milices iraniennes mobilisent des troupes pour lancer une offensive majeure dans le sud de la Syrie malgré l'avertissement de Washington, ont indiqué des sources locales....

Turkish soldiers patrolling in Manbij are giving locals hope that they can go back home, according to a prominent longtime resident of the northeastern Syria city. Ibrahim Alhaji, who served a decade as an undersecretary at Syria’s Justice Ministry after 12 years as a judge and...

Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, on Tuesday met with senior Turkish, Russian, and Iranian officials towards the establishment of a constitutional committee for the war-battered country. The delegations entered the UN at Geneva on Tuesday morning for the closed-door...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 troops from coastal Latakia province were killed in the holy month of Ramadan, pro-regime news feeds said. Most of the slain soldiers were killed by Daesh in eastern Syria as the militant group showed fierce resistance despite shrinking territory....

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned a U.S. airstrike on a post of the pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi forces near border with Syria. “We condemn the act of targeting forces fighting the Daesh terrorist group in Syria and Iraq,” the ministry said in a statement....

The Syrian Turkmen Assembly (STA) Monday welcomed the Manbij roadmap devised by Turkey and the U.S., saying that the deal would not have been reached if Turkey had not launched Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin. STA leader Mohamed Wajih Joma told Anadolu Agency that the Manbij...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels are on alert as the regime forces backed by Hezbollah and Iranian militias have been mobilizing troops to launch major offensive in southern Syria despite warning from Washington, local sources said.  The regime forces seek to split up the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes erupted Monday between the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and Syrian rebels in southern Quneitra province, local activists said. Hezbollah militants have intensified their assault in the southwest region despite a clear warning by the US to take firm and appropriate...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Syrian Kurdish militia fighters were leaving northern Syria's Manbij area. Turkey's armed forces announced earlier that Turkish and U.S. soldiers had started independent patrols along the line separating Turkish-controlled areas...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll in an overnight bombing raid on pro-regime forces in eastern Syria has risen to 52 loyalist fighters, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday. "Among them are at least 30 Iraqi fighters and 16 Syrians, including 4 officers and 8...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior rebel commander killed early Monday by unknown assailants in northern Idlib province, local source said. Khalil Ismael Ersan, deputy commander of Jaish al-Ahrar, was assassinated with his son in the town of Joubas in the southern countryside of Idlib when...

The peace march of peasants, students and farmers from Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province has already won hearts and minds of many war-weary Afghans halfway through their destination, Kabul. The Helmand Peace March evolved from the sit-in camps in this southern province when a...

TO Hassan Al Kontar, Mars is an increasingly attractive and possibly the only way out of the transit lounge of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The Syrian has lived at the terminal in Sepang for more than 100 days now, watching the people go by while his funds and options dwindle by the...

A U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance Sunday ousted Daesh (ISIS) from a bastion in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, it said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by U.S.-led coalition air power, have been battling to expel the militants from the last villages they hold in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday have seized the town of Tal al-Shayer from Daesh in the northeastern province of Hasaka, activists said. The next step for the SDF after Tal Shayer is the town of al-Dshaisha, according to activist Mohamed al-Kheder....

European Daesh terror group members have been released by the SDF under secret prisoner swap deals, raising fears the terrorists could reenter the battlefield and even return to Europe, according to a British daily Friday. The U.S. has supported a number of terrorist groups under the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian Defense ministry on Saturday said 18 breaches were registered for the nation-wide ceasefire in the past 24 hours. 234 rebel factions have agreed are abiding by the ceasefire during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims...