The U.N. is intentionally providing only barebones aid in the former Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Raqqa in Syria to avoid attracting more civilians to the still highly dangerous city, an official said Tuesday. "We don't want to start too vigorous programmes... because we don't want to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday the United States had no intention to leave Syria despite Washington saying it had such plans, the RIA state news agency said. Lavrov told reporters in Beijing he hoped it would become clearer how to cooperate on settling the Syrian...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 23 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the northeastern countryside of Homs city as heavy clashes are still underway, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Five army soldiers were also taken captive by rebels near Salim village, as...

Syrian security services chief Ali Mamluk has refused to appear before a military tribunal in Lebanon to face terror-related charges, a court source told AFP Monday. Mamluk, a member of President Bashar Assad's inner circle, was accused in 2013 by Lebanon's government of "attempting to...

 More than a dozen Syrian regime forces have been killed fighting Daesh (ISIS) in a devastated southern district of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group said Monday. Forces loyal to Bashar Assad ramped up their ground operations and bombing raids against the Palestinian...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia allowed 50 displaced families to return back home in the village of Tel Hamam in the northeastern province of Hasaka, local activists said Monday. After three years of displacement, people of Tel Hamam arrived the village. The...

Governments will seek more than $6 billion in aid for Syria at a two-day donor conference from Tuesday, which the European Union hopes will also offer Russia, Turkey and Iran a chance to renew peace efforts. As the conflict enters its eighth devastating year, Brussels has invited some...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said the U.S. should at least maintain a diplomatic presence in Syria, ahead of a visit to Washington. “It's not automatically U.S. forces, but that's U.S. diplomacy and that's your president,” Macron said in an interview on Fox News conducted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained exclusive reports leaked by group of army officers, who still in duty showing how the corruption has swept the Syrian navy. Since the established of Syrian navy in 1950, no role has been remembered as its role in bombing the Syrian people over the...

By Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- A few hours after Washington added his name to the list of criminal organization, “Nasief Barakt” has instantly become a very talked-about figure within a wide segment of the Syrian people. “Zaman al-Wasl” was able to collect some vital documented...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime Palestinian paramilitary group mourned three officers said they had been killed by former al-Qaeda group as the regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold south of the capital. The Militia of Fateh al-Intifada has engaged in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Reconciliation talks have been suspended between the Russian army and the negation committee in Northern Homs and southern Hama, sources said Sunday. The Russian military, which brokers the evacuation and ceasefire deal in Syria, has suspended the Sunday's meeting...

Air strikes pounded an insurgent-held area near Damascus Sunday, footage broadcast by state TV stations showed, as the Syrian regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold near the capital. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the al-Hajar al-Aswad district as the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Amid a series of handovers to regime army around the capital, starting by eastern Ghouta and ending by Qalamoun region, the Syrian activists have raised a big question mark: Why Jaish al-Islam did not destroy its arsenal instead of giving up its M-600 rockets, TOW...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish-led Raqqa Local Council has transferred two mass graves containing 500 bodies of civilians and Islamic State jihadists out of the city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The move came as the local organizations and civil community work to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bread prices have been doubled in Hasaka days after the breadwinners stopped selling bread in the northeastern city, local reporter said Saturday. Local activists attributed the prices hike to the lack of flour, as the Syrian regime is the only supplier for flour in...

A team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in Douma, Syria on Saturday to collect samples as it tries to determine whether such weapons were used there on April 7, the agency said. In a statement, the OPCW said it would now...

About a month after liberating the region across Turkey’s border from Kurdish militias and ISIS, the Turkish military has opened an emergency services hospital in Afrin, northwestern Syria. The hospital, which can treat 400 patients a day, provides residents in the town of Jinderes with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces stepped up its ground and aerial attack on the southern neighborhoods of Damascus as clashes are still underway with Daesh and former al-Qaeda group, local reporter said Saturday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said five Palestinian people were killed in...

(Zambian Al Wasl)- Rebels started leaving eastern Qalamoun region outside the capital on Saturday, regime-run media said, after a new deal was reached between opposition fighters and the Russia-backed regime. The agreement for the eastern Qalamoun  is the latest in a string of...