(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and Daesh fighters in southern suburbs of Damascus have agreed to cease fighting after four days of clashes, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The regime army ordered ISIS to retreat from al-Qadam to the adjacent neighborhood of al-Hajar...

Syria's regime retook two more towns in Eastern Ghouta on Saturday, a war monitor said, pressing an offensive to capture the rebel enclave on the doorstep of Damascus. Government forces seized Kafr Batna and Sabqa in the south of the enclave, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

A convoy of Turkish Armed Forces entered Syria on Saturday to establish a new observation point in northwestern Aleppo, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground. The military convoy has safely reached the Anadan district of Aleppo, said the correspondent....

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey-backed troops had surrounded Afrin city center in northwestern Syria and were ready to enter at any moment. "We are about to enter Afrin, and we may announce the good news at any time," said Erdogan at his Justice and...

The Turkish military and Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Saturday liberated seven more strategic villages in Afrin, northwestern Syria from the control of PYD/PKK militant groups. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, the villages Kokana, Ayn Al Hajar and Haji Qasimli are...

 The Turkish military released footage of an undamaged Afrin hospital building on Saturday, refuting a smear campaign by YPG/PKK-Daesh militant groups. The one-minute video that was shot at 9.43 a.m. local time (0643GMT) on Saturday shows the hospital building is in good shape....

Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns to escape battles at opposite ends of Syria on Saturday, where two different offensives have prompted an exodus in recent days. Air strikes pounded a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, rescuers and a war monitor...

Syrian regime air strikes on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, a monitor said, almost a month into a blistering Russia-backed regime assault on the Syrian rebel enclave outside Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not say who...

More than 150,000 civilians have fled the city of Afrin in northern Syria since Wednesday evening to escape a Turkish-led military offensive against a Kurdish militia, a war monitor said. "There was fierce fighting throughout the night on the northern outskirts of the city as the...

The rebel groups left in Syria's Eastern Ghouta said Friday they would be willing to negotiate with regime backer Russia on a ceasefire for their one-time stronghold outside Damascus. In a joint statement, factions Jaish al-Islam, Failaq al-Rahman, and Ahrar al-Sham said the United...

A Turkish air strike hit the main hospital in Syria's Afrin town Friday night, killing nine people, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Turkey's military has denied hitting civilians in its offensive on the Afrin region, which it launched in...

BEIRUT (Reuters)- The Syrian regime army and allied forces have recaptured 70 percent of the territory that had been under insurgent control in the enclave of Eastern Ghouta, it said Friday. The regime military statement said troops had seized swathes of farmland, several villages and...

Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves on opposite ends of Syria Friday as two major battles in the multi-sided war entered decisive phases, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the path of both assaults. Air strikes killed scores of people in eastern...

 The United Nations said Friday there were "alarming reports" that Kurdish forces are blocking civilians from leaving the Syrian enclave of Afrin faced with a looming siege, and could be using them as "human shields". The U.N. rights office said it had been receiving "deeply...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- The Russian military said that 4,127 people had left Syria's rebel-held eastern Ghouta Friday, the TASS news agency reported, citing a senior military official. "As of now, 4,127 people have left the area. They are mainly old people, women and children," Russian Major...

BERLIN (Reuters)- Syrians in Germany, angered by a far-right politician's statement that their coffee was paid for by German taxpayers, responded on social media with the hashtag "I pay for my coffee", tagging the politician, who recently visited Syria. Last week, seven members of the...

At least 60 civilians were killed Friday and hundreds more injured when Syrian regime and Russian warplanes struck a crowded market in Eastern Ghouta with incendiary bombs. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the town of Kafr Batna, warplanes had targeted the town’s...

Heavy airstrikes targeted a rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta on Friday, killing 10 people in the town of Saqba, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said Russian jets carried out the strikes, citing its activist network on the ground. Advancing Syrian...

The Turkish military and Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Friday liberated two more villages and two strategic hills in Afrin, northwestern Syria from the control of YPG militia. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, the villages of Miske Fawkani and Miske Tahtani and two...

Civilians in Syria's northwestern Idlib province long for the day when the civil war will end and they will be able to return to their homes.  Around 300,000 civilians live in Atma village of Idlib, right on the Turkey-Syria border, across Hatay province in southeastern Turkey....