The body of a Syrian woman who reportedly died a month ago was found Tuesday in the vicinity of the Al-Masnaa border crossing in east Lebanon, a security source said.
The Turkish army was Tuesday engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militia inside Syria as the United States voiced alarm Ankara's operation could endanger attempts to bring peace to the conflict-torn country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed at the funeral of the first Turkish...
Decrying the worsening situation in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the head of Syria’s opposition delegation said Monday that helping civilians must be prioritized. “The situation in Eastern Ghouta is causing serious concern, and the last three months were the worst ever for this...
Syria’s main opposition group said Monday it needed “full and clear information” from Russia before it would agree to take part in peace talks to be held in Sochi next week. The comments came during a visit by the Syrian Negotiations Commission (SNC) to Moscow as Russia gets...
The White House Monday urged Turkey to exercise restraint after Turkish forces launched a military campaign in Syria's Afrin region, warning that the campaign risked exacerbating a humanitarian crisis and disrupting what had been a stable area. "We urge Turkey to exercise restraint in...
The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official to visit the war-struck city months after American-backed militia retook the area from Daesh (ISIS). Green was accompanied by the head of the U.S....
Russia said Monday it had invited Kurds to take part in an upcoming Syrian peace congress in Sochi, despite a Turkish offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria. Together with regime backer Iran and rebel supporter Turkey, Russia - a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad...
The United Nations is ready to help people who might flee from the Afrin enclave, where Turkish troops are on the offensive against Kurdish fighters, the top U.N. official in Syria said Monday. Ali al-Zatari told The Associated Press in his office in western Damascus that they are...
The PYD/PKK terror group has released all Daesh prisoners under the condition that they will fight against Turkish army and Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Syria's Afrin region, according to local sources Monday. The terrorist group struck a deal with Daesh terrorists for using them as a...
Rescue workers in a Syrian rebel-held enclave east of Damascus accused government forces of using chlorine gas during bombardment of the area on Monday, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 people had suffered suffocation. The regime army and government...
The number of Syrian refugees who froze to death due to a snowstorm in eastern Lebanon rose to 17 in three days, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense source. Two more bodies were found late Sunday, the source said. Lebanese soldiers found the bodies, identified as a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS branch in southern Syria has been mobilizing its militants to seize an Israeli-Syrian buffer zone since 1973 near the Occupied Golan Heights, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Jaish Khalid Ibn al-Walid seeks to capture the ‘Yellow Zone’ that includes 5 towns...
Turkish air raids killed 11 civilians Sunday in the northern Syrian region of Afrin, including eight members of the same family who had fled fighting elsewhere, the Observatory said. The reported strikes came on the second day of "Operation Olive Branch," as Turkish tanks and troops...
Turkish Armed Forces on Sunday took control of 11 PYD positions and created safe zones during Operation Olive Branch in Syria's northwestern Afrin region. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the field, Turkish army backed by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) captured Afrin’s...
Syria's main opposition group said it will send a delegation Monday to regime ally Russia to discuss with officials Moscow's "real stance" on the Syrian political process. The visit by the Syrian Negotiations Commission (SNC) comes as Moscow gets set to host peace talks in the Black Sea...
The United Nations Security Council will hold talks about the situation in Syria on Monday, French Foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on his Twitter feed on Sunday. He added that France would press for humanitarian access. Le Drian said earlier on Sunday that France had called...
The body of a Syrian man was found Sunday in a large tank of asphalt near the Aley town of Ain Dara, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Afrin region of Syria only targets terror groups and not Kurds, Arabs or Turkmen, Turkish deputy minister said on Sunday. Speaking to the foreign journalists in Istanbul, Bekir Bozdag said PKK, YPG, KCK and PYD terrorists turned the region...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three civilians were killed and dozen more wounded in regime airstrikes on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, Civil Defense rescuing group said on Sunday. 3 civilians killed and many wounded after 2 warplanes raids targeted residential...
Turkish jets destroyed 45 more targets of PYD/PKK as part of Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin region on Sunday, Turkish General Staff said in a statement. The statement said destroyed targets included shelters, ammunition depots and weapon emplacements belonging to the terrorist...
