In the Syrian city of Homs' landmark Clock Square, where some of the first anti-government protests erupted in 2011, stands a giant poster of a smiling President Bashar Assad waving his right arm, with a caption that reads: "Together we will rebuild." Four years after the military brought...

MOSCOW: Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Monday that the Syrian army will suspend strikes on the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta during a daily five-hour truce, introduced from Tuesday, Interfax news agency said. Militants in the enclave are holding hundreds hostage, including...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the implementation of a daily ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta, starting Tuesday, and the creation of a "humanitarian corridor" via which civilians can leave, his defense minister was quoted as saying. The minister, Sergei Shoigu, said the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta with the country's national security council, TASS news agency said Monday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov said that Russia's security council expressed concern about the "provocative...

Syrian forces launched a ground offensive Monday on a rebel-held eastern Damascus suburb despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, as the U.N. chief denounced the violence in the embattled region, describing it as "hell on Earth." The...

Allegations that forces loyal to Syrian leader Bashar Assad were to blame for a chlorine attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta are a provocation aimed at sabotaging a ceasefire in the enclave, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying Monday. Lavrov said a 30-day ceasefire...

The U.N. rights chief Monday slammed a lack of action to rein in increasingly brutal conflicts around the world, describing places like Syria, Yemen and Myanmar as "prolific slaughterhouses". "Eastern Ghouta, the other besieged areas in Syria, Ituri and the Kasais in the [Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fresh bombardment by the regime army Monday killed at least 10 civilians in the besieged Eastern Ghouta subrubs, including nine members of a same family, a monitor said. Air strikes destroyed a building in Douma, the main town in the Eastern Ghouta area east of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad's first aide is on a 'security visit' to Italy following a two-year of collaboration between Rome and Damascus in the Intelligence and jihadists issues, a Lebanese daily said on Monday. The Hezbollah-funded Al-Akhbar newspaper said the Lebanese...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "Destroy the children of Ghouta; they are the children of terrorists, kill the women; they are the wives and mothers of the terrorists." This was a call by a pro-regime loyalist, Lama Dayoub, on her Facebook page to the regime army, Iranian militias and the Russian friends, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 people, including 36 Daesh militants and 16 displaced, were killed in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor as the US-led coalition stepped up aerial bombing on last ISIS stronghold near the Iraqi border, local media unit said on Sunday. Daesh is still...

The Assad regime on Sunday attacked the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta with chlorine gas, according to the White Helmets, a pro-opposition Syrian civil defense agency. One child was killed in the attack which targeted the Al-Shifoniya town, the agency said on its official...

The Kurdish Hawks Brigade, part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), will join Turkey's Operation Olive Branch launched against YPG/PKK and Daesh terror organizations in Afrin, northwestern Syria, a brigade commander said Sunday. The brigade, which was formed by the Hamza Division, includes...

More than 1,000 civilians, including children and women, have been killed since mid-November in attacks by the Syrian regime and its allies including Russia in besieged Eastern Ghouta, according to a U.K-based human rights watchdog. Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a...

The leaders of Germany and France urged Russia Sunday to exert "maximum pressure" on Syria for an "immediate" implementation of a U.N. ceasefire in the war-ravaged country, Berlin said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed in a telephone call...

A resolution accepted unanimously by the U.N. Security Council for a 30-day ceasefire across Syria will not impact Turkey's offensive against Kurdish fighters in Afrin, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday. The U.N. resolution on Saturday followed seven straight days of...

Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday said Syria was being "martyred" by continued attacks killing civilians in the eastern Ghouta district, calling for an immediate end to violence and access to humanitarian aid. "All this is inhuman," Francis told tens of thousands of people in St....

Former co-leader of PYD/PKK terrorist group Salih Muslim has been arrested in the Czech capital, said Turkish security officials on Sunday. Muslim was arrested in Prague on Saturday, said the officials on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media. The...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated five more villages on Sunday as part of Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria’s Afrin.  The villages of Shaykh Muhammad, Kunda Dudu, Samalik, "Velikli" and "Kavanda" in the Rajo area, located northwest of Afrin, were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians killed early Sunday in Ghouta suburbs as regime and allied militias launched fresh ground and aerial strikes on the eastern enclave of Damascus in spite of a UN resolution calling for a 30-day truce, local activists said. Activists say 500 people have...