A shelling and a car bomb blast in Syria's capital Damascus killed two people and wounded several others Wednesday, state television said. It reported "two killed and 14 wounded in terrorist attacks on Damascus Tower and Maysat Square". The shell struck at the tower in the...

Eight Iranians were among 15 foreign pro-regime fighters killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Syria on a weapons depot of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, a war monitor said Wednesday. The raid struck the area of Kisweh south of Damascus late Tuesday, the Britain-based Syrian...

Israel's prime minister says security coordination with Russia must continue amid developments in Syria. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Wednesday ahead of a trip to Moscow, where he is set to meet with President Vladimir Putin. He says "in light of what is currently happening in Syria, it is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two people drowned in floods in the southern province of Daraa, Civil Defense said Tuesday. The rescuing group said two young men had drowned when they tried to swim in ponds filled by the floods water in the eastern countryside of Daraa. After five years...

Syrian state media accused Israel of launching missiles at a target near Damascus Tuesday, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was quitting the Iranian nuclear deal, a move that prompted Israel to go on high alert. Within two hours of the White House announcement, Syrian state...

The Israeli army said Tuesday it has asked authorities in the occupied Golan Heights to open and prepare missile shelters over "irregular activity by Iranian forces in Syria," across the demarcation line. "Following the identification of irregular activity of Iranian forces in Syria, the IDF...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran Tuesday of deploying "very dangerous weapons" in Syria as part of a campaign to threaten Israel. Iran, "openly calls, daily, for the destruction, the elimination of Israel from the face of the earth and practices unmitigated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 3400 rebels and their families are still awaiting the Turkish army's permission to enter the northern countryside of Aleppo after being held at Abu al-Zendan crossing, local activists said Tuesday. The first batch of rebels departed from the city of Rastan in...

A Russian Ka-52 attack chopper crashed Monday during a flight over eastern Syria as a result of a presumed technical malfunction, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Both pilots aboard the aircraft died as a result of the incident. "When carrying out a planned flight over the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias went on a looting spree in the newly evacuated towns in southern Damascus, local activists said Monday. After forcing rebel fighters from their towns of Beit Sahm, Babila and Yalda in Damascus, the regime troops pillaged private...

The “Defense of the People” Court is an almost intimate place. Three judges – two men and a woman – sat behind a large desk. The defendant, a former Daesh (ISIS) militant in Syria, faced them in a chair only a yard away, close enough for a conversation.A space heater in the center and...

Hundreds of rebels left the last major besieged opposition enclave in Syria Monday, with thousands more expected to follow, responding to months of pressure by a Russian-backed government offensive, the army, rebels and residents said. Opposition fighters agreed with regime forces and their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian and Palestinian militias have taken ground from Daesh in the southern neighborhoods of Damascus, activists said Monday. Regime forces are seeking to end Daesh's years-long foothold in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk and...

A minister in Israel's security cabinet says it could topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he allows Iranian forces to attack Israel from Syria. Yuval Steinitz warned that if there was an attack, Mr Assad "must know that it is his end and the end of his regime". His...

 A U.S. naval strike force led by aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman began sorties on May 3 against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, continuing missions by a U.S.-led coalition against the militants. The force joined the U.S. Sixth Fleet on April 18, nearly a week after the United...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The newly-deployed French forces in northeastern Syria have been brokering an evacuation deal with Daesh fighters to leave last pockets in Deir Ezzor to Hasaka province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The ongoing negotiations came as the U.S.-led coalition and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave in the central province of Homs on Monday after their groups agreed to quit four days ago, local activists said. About 100 buses entered al-Rastan, the key city in the rebel-held northern Homs region to deliver 3000 rebel...

More than 30 Syrian government troops have been killed in a southern district of the capital in a fierce counter-offensive by Daesh (ISIS) fighters, a monitor said Monday. Regime forces are seeking to end Daesh's years-long foothold in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk and neighboring...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime airstrikes killed four civilians in the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense said Sunday. The rescuing group said the vacuum missile attack hit the town of Jisr al-Shughour in western countryside of Idlib. Two children killed and 10 others...

Sixteen women who went to Syria to join Daesh (ISIS) have been jailed in Iran, a Tehran prosecutor said Sunday. The women were also ordered to pay back any money they had received from the Sunni Muslim militant group, the judiciary's news website Mizanonline quoted prosecutor Abbas...