Turkish military and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Friday took two more strategic villages in northwestern Afrin region from Kurdish YPG militia. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, Shawarighat al-Jawz and Milkiyah villages in Afrin were cleared of terrorists...

Syrian Observatory, witness say air strikes hit town of Douma in eastern Ghouta, where aid convoy is bringing supplies

ICRC in Syria tells Reuters convoy of 13 trucks is waiting outside rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta, will deliver today

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Eastern Ghouta’s rebels denied regime reports of dividing the besieged enclave in two, saying they thwarted the multi-axes attack to advance in Ghouta on Thursday. The regime, determined to wrest the suburbs from the control of rebels after seven years of war, has...

Turkish military and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated another town center in Syria’s Afrin region from terrorists on Thursday during the ongoing Operation Olive Branch. Jinderes town center, located in the southwest of Afrin, was cleared of terrorists following fierce street...

By Burak Karacaoglu and Mohamad Misto - (IDLIB, Syria/ ISTANBUL)- Women who escaped from prisons run by the Bashar al-Assad regime say they suffered all forms of torture, including rape. The regime forces are responsible for 7,699 rape cases involving at least 864 women and...

Syrian forces pursued a relentless air and ground offensive against Eastern Ghouta Thursday, moving closer to retaking the rebel enclave but also depriving desperate civilians of vital aid.  More than 900 civilians have been killed in the nearly three-week assault on the last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has freed 400 people arrested seven months ago while they were fleeing ISIS-held area in eastern Syria province to the Qalamoun region near Damascus, a rebel spokesman said Thursday. Said Seif, spokesman for Ahmed al-Abdo Battalions, told Zaman al-Wasl...

BEIRUT (Reuters)- The Syrian army is poised to slice rebel-held eastern Ghouta in two as forces advancing from the east link up with troops at the enclave's western edge, a pro-Damascus military commander said Thursday. That put the zone effectively under Syrian regime control as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 20 regime troops in coastal Latakia province on Wednesday, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels in the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area launched an attack on regime bastions in retaliation to regime offensive on Eastern Ghouta subrubs....

  The United Nations Security Council Wednesday called for a ceasefire to be implemented across Syria and expressed concern about the country's humanitarian situation, Netherlands U.N. Ambassador and council president for March Karel van Oosterom said. "The cessation of hostilities...

   (Zaman Al Wasl- AP)- Fresh air strikes on eastern Ghouta near Damascus brought the death toll for Wednesday's bombardment on the rebel-held enclave near Damascus to 45, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 18 of the...

Turkey’s National Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Wednesday a domestically produced protection system will be used for tanks in Operation Olive Branch. In a special interview with Anadolu Agency, Canikli said: "We will begin to install PULAT [protection] system to our tanks...

The Turkish and Iranian leaders on Wednesday discussed recent developments in Syria, especially the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta, according to Turkish presidential sources. In a phone conversation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani...

The White Helmets civil defense agency has called on the UN to take "necessary steps" to ease the dire humanitarian situation in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta district. In a Wednesday statement, the agency said that attacks by the Assad regime were ongoing despite the recent adoption...

BERLIN (AFP) -  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman on Wednesday condemned a visit by politicians of the far-right AfD party to the "inhumane" Syrian regime. "People who court this regime disqualify themselves," said Steffen Seibert on the Damascus trip by six members of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of a poor village in Hasaka province were  overwhelmed with joy when the main spring in their area started to pour again after ten years of depletion. The heavy rainfall in the northeastern Syria has revived the spring of Ayn al-Ghura, following ten...

Exclusive footage from Eastern Ghouta as the U.N. human rights chief says the Syrian regime is orchestrating an "apocalypse" in the stricken suburbs.    The Syrian regime is orchestrating an "apocalypse" that will strike elsewhere following the devastating crisis...

Syrian rebels in Eastern Ghouta will defend the territory and there are no negotiations over a withdrawal that has been proposed by Russia, the military spokesman for one of the main eastern Ghouta rebel groups said Wednesday. "There are no negotiations about this subject. The factions...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Exclusif- La Corée du Nord dirige une base militaire souterraine au sud de Qardaha, la ville natale de Bashar al-Assad dans la province côtière de Lattaquié, a déclaré une source bien informée à Zaman al-Wasl. De longs tunnels ont été construits au cours des sept...