The EU's foreign policy chief on Tuesday called on the Bashar al-Assad regime to stop attacks on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta enclave completely. Speaking at the European Parliament’s General Assembly meeting, Federica Mogherini pointed out that a proposal by Russia for a five-hour daily...

Assad regime forces killed five civilians and injured 15 on Tuesday in the opposition-held Idlib province, one of Syria’s de-escalation zones where attacks are prohibited, and the number of casualties may rise, the Syrian Civil Defense said. Mustafa Haj Yusuf, head of the Syrian Civil...

Afrin city center in northwestern Syria has been surrounded since Monday as part of Turkey-led Operation Olive Branch, Turkish Armed Forces said Tuesday. In a written statement, the Turkish General Staff said the center of Afrin has been surrounded since March 12 and "critically...

Syrian regime army evacuated several hundred fighters from a small pocket they had held for years south of Damascus Tuesday and bussed them to the north of the country, a monitor said. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent confirmed the evacuation from the district of Qadam. AFP's correspondent...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Iran had removed its drones from the T-4 military airbase to Palmyra airbase two weeks after the Israeli airstrikes last February. Geographically, the both bases are located in the Syrian desert, also known as Badiya, but the move by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Civil Defense rescuing group said Tuesday they had pulled out eight civilians, including seven from the same family, from under the rubble in Zamalka town as aerial bombing stepped up on Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The Assad regime and key ally Russia have been...

   Syrian regime jets resumed strikes on several rebel-held towns in southern Daraa province Tuesday, rebels said, a day after Washington warned that such bombing would violate a U.S.-Russian "de-escalation zone". Two rebel sources said jets bombed the towns of Hrak, Busr al...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey will grant families of dead Free Syrian Army fighters the Turkish citizenchip along with more merits, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Mustafa Seijeri, head of the Political Bureau in Liwa' al-Mutassem, revealed that a Turkish-Syrian committee had been formed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 troops from central Homs and Hama provinces killed in the batterned Eastern Ghouta, local activists said. Most of the slain fighters were from Mesyaf, the key town of al-Ghab Plain, the main manpower supply for the regime army and its backed militias....

The Russian military will respond to a U.S. strike on Syria, targeting any missiles and launchers involved in such an attack, the RIA news agency reported Tuesday. RIA cited Valery Gerasimov, head of the General Staff, as saying that Moscow would retaliate if the lives of Russian...

The United States has called an urgent meeting in Jordan out of concern about reports of strikes in southwestern Syria within the boundaries of the de-escalation zone negotiated last year, a U.S. State Department official said on Monday. If true, the reported strikes would be a clear violation...

ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkey will soon clear the Syrian town of Afrin of militants and has already gained control of more than half the area, a government spokesman said Monday. "We have cleared an area of 1102 kilometer square from terrorists in Afrin. We will soon reach the town center...

Thousands of families are sleeping in the open in the streets of the biggest town of Eastern Ghouta enclave, where there is no longer any room in packed cellars to shelter from government bombardment, local authorities said. The regime army's onslaught in Eastern Ghouta, backed by air...

PARIS: France is prepared to launch targeted strikes against any site in Syria used to deploy chemical attacks that result in the deaths of civilians, President Emmanuel Macron said. Shortly before the United Nations was due to discuss Syria, Macron said Moscow, a close ally of Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and 8 more wounded in regime aerial bombing on the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense rescuing group said Monday. The strikes intensified on the town of Taftanaz and the Jisr al-Shughour region, killing two people in the village of Jiftlik...

 Syrian regime jets struck rebel-held towns in southern Daraa province on Monday, the first aerial attacks on the area since the United States and Russia brokered a deal making it a "de-escalation zone" last year, rebels and residents said. At least eight raids struck the...

The Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Monday liberated four more villages from YPG and Daesh terrorists during Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region. The villages -- including Zindakan, Qila, Kumush Burj, Qibar -- were cleared of the terrorists,...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- Jaish al-Islam, one of the main rebel groups in Syria's eastern Ghouta, said Monday it had reached an agreement with the government's ally Russia to evacuate wounded people from the besieged enclave near Damascus. It communicated with Russia through the United...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Islam said Sunday that 40 regime troops were killed in al-Rihan battlefront as the savage bombardment continued on Eastern Ghouta leaving more than 1100 civilians, including 219 children, killed. Sunday's death toll reached 53 as the regime army broke...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish militias have fortified oil fields under its control in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, as regime forces deploy troops near Coneco oil field, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces sent...