The United Nations called on Tuesday for full access to civilians inside and outside of Syria's eastern Ghouta to meet their urgent needs, after some 50,000 have fled in recent days. Another 104,000 are estimated to have been uprooted by fighting around the northern town of Afrin, where 10,000...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime forces have arrested a prominent commander of one of its pro-militias, following clashes with Tiger elite forces, sources said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Afifa along with 12 members of his militia were arrested after clashes with forces subordinated to Suhail...

A monitor said Tuesday three dozen pro-regime fighters were killed in a southern district of the capital as Daesh (ISIS) militants took control of it in a surprise nighttime attack. There was no immediate comment from the regime on the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

An air strike on a school in Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 17 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in a dwindling rebel-held pocket of Ghouta that has...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition has made an airdrop in the northeastern province of Hasaka, tracking suspected ISIS militants in border village with Iraq, residents told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The U.S. helicopters made the airdrop in Tel Hamis, where U.S. troops raided two...

Turkey will ask the European Union about the remainder of 3 billion euro ($3.69 billion) funding granted for Syrian refugees living in Turkey during the meeting in the Bulgarian city of Varna next week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Ankara, Erdogan said...

A British woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the Syrian region of Afrin was killed in the Turkish-led offensive on the area, a spokeswoman for the forces said Monday. Anna Campbell was killed last week in the Afrin enclave, Nisrin Abdallah said, a spokeswoman for the Kurdish...

Turkey's military operations in Syria will continue further east until several towns stretching hundreds of kilometers towards the Iraqi border have been cleared of militants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Ankara a day after Turkish forces and their rebel...

At least 20 civilians have died in a resumption of Syrian regime bombing on Douma, the largest town in shrinking rebel-controlled pockets of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said Monday. Thirteen were killed late Sunday in air strikes and artillery fire on the battered town, and another seven...

Turkish forces will withdraw from the Syrian border region of Afrin, leaving it to its "real owners", once it has been cleared of "terrorists", Turkey said on Monday. Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies swept into the regional capital, also called Afrin, on Sunday, raising their flags in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 59 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Latakia province killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs since the regime launched its deadliest offensive on Feb18, according to Zaman al-Wasl Arabic. The death toll included 25 officers among them a Major...

At least 397 undocumented migrants, including women and children, were held in south and eastern Turkey, security sources said Sunday. Turkish Coast Guards detained 165 Syrians traveling in a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, said the sources who refused to be named due to restrictions on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime is planning to deport ISIS fighters in southern Damascus suburbs to a territory at the edge of the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Yarmouk Basin, which is under the control of Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, an ISIS affiliated group, is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Tartus province killed by rebels in the last two weeks of March. The death toll included a Colonel and two Lieutenants as most of slain fighters were killed in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital....

 More than 1,500 Kurdish fighters have been killed in a two-month assault by Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, a monitor said Sunday. Most of them were killed air strikes and artillery fire, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

The Kurdish administration of Afrin region indicated Sunday that Kurdish-dominated forces fighting Turkey-backed groups in the area will shift from direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics. "Our forces are present all over Afrin's geography. These forces will strike the positions of...

Bashar Assad on Sunday visited his army positions in Eastern Ghouta, the  dictator's  Telegram account said. "In the line of fire in Eastern Ghouta ... President Assad with heroes of the Syrian Arab army," a caption said next to photographs of Assad in a crowd of men in...

 Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies swept into the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin on Sunday, taking control of the town center after Kurdish YPG forces pulled out, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. A spokesman for the rebel fighters said they entered Afrin...

The Turkish military said Sunday it had taken complete control of the Afrin town center in northwestern Syria. “The Afrin town center was taken under control by Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army,” the General Staff said on its official Twitter account. A search operation...

The United Nations failed to prevent violence raging in Syria, including the assault on the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave, the head of Syria's main opposition group alleged on Saturday. Nasr al-Hariri, president of the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) blamed the UN for the crimes...