The Lebanese Army will take new measures to control illegal smuggling routes along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria after 13 Syrian nationals died crossing the mountains into the country Friday, a military source said.
Syrian armed opposition groups are on high alert for an anticipated Turkish military operation against the PYD/PKK terrorist group in the northwestern city of Afrin. Opposition fighters are now standing guard at observation posts set up in nearby de-escalation zones. On...
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Daesh (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq would be defeated militarily "in the coming weeks," as he laid out plans for bolstering France's defense capabilities. "Today, thanks to the efforts of all the nations involved, the Daesh military...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed militia on Friday pounded a psychiatric hospital on the northern town of Azaz with heavy artillery, leaving 12 people mostly patients wounded, local reporter said. The border town with Turkey has endured to artillery shelling from the Syrian Democratic Forces....
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish forces had fired around 70 shells at Kurdish villages in the Afrin region of northwestern Syria in a bombardment from Turkish territory that began around midnight and continued into Friday morning. Rojhat Roj, a YPG spokesman in Afrin, told...
Turkey has installed an electronic security system in its southernmost Hatay province on the border with Afrin, a Syrian town presently under the control of the terrorist PYD/PKK, military sources said. Having successfully passed the initial tests by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians, including woman and her baby child, were killed in Russian airstrikes on the northern town of Maarrat al-Nu'man in Idlib province, Civil Defense rescuing group said on Thursday. 3 martyrs so far mostly children, killed by warplane airstrikes...
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Thursday intercepted Daesh suicide bombers attempting to enter a Syrian district on Turkey’s border. FSA fighters stopped a truck carrying water tanks during traffic control operations in Azez district, Aleppo province, according to authorities. Ten...
The U.S. State Department urged Turkey Thursday not to take military action against Afrin region in Syria and called instead for Ankara to remain focused on fighting Daesh (ISIS) militants in the region. Asked about signs that Turkey was preparing to strike a Kurdish militia in Afrin,...
Turkey dispatched its military chief to Moscow Thursday, seeking approval for an air campaign in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region, although Damascus warned it could shoot down any Turkish planes in its skies. Turkey's foreign minister said the Moscow trip by Chief of Staff Hulusi...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the local council in Harasta district in besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs has accused regime troops of looting the Christian cemeteries. Hossam al-Bayrouti told Zaman al-Wasl that cemeteries in the al-Ajami and the al-Intaj areas had been looted and damged....
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that a U.S military presence in Syria was illegitimate and represented an "aggression" against Syrian sovereignty, after Washington signaled that its forces would stay in parts of Syria indefinitely. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on...
Turkey said Thursday Washington's denial that it intended to build a border force in Syria was "important," but added Ankara would not remain silent in the face of any force that threatened its borders. Turkey reacted angrily after the U.S.-led coalition said it would help its Syrian...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday denied that the United States had any intention to build a Syria-Turkey border force, saying the issue, which has incensed Ankara, had been “misportrayed.” Turkey has reacted angrily and warned of an imminent incursion into Syria’s...
Waiving its newly announced name, "Border Protection Force", the Pentagon late Wednesday claimed that PKK/PYD-led SDF force is not a new "army" or conventional "border guard" force. "The U.S. continues to train local security forces in Syria. The training is designed to enhance security...
Turkey's top security body, the National Security Council (MGK), said Wednesday it will take "any steps necessary immediately" to "defeat threats" upon the United States' announcement that it is building an army of PKK-backed YPG terrorists on the Syrian border. The...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 fighters from the US-backed forces have been killed and wounded in two ISIS suicide bombing attacks in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the extremist group news agency said on Wednesday. Amaq said two the car-bomb attacks targetes bases of the Syrian Democratic...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes continued between ISIS fighters and rebels in the southern suburbs of Damascus for the fifth day as the radical group seeks to seize more blocs in the besieged district of al-Hajar al-Aswad, local activists said Wednesday. Daesh (ISIS) launched an attack...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has recruited about 1000 young men from Hasaka and Deir Ez Zor provinces in its militia, most of whom are teachers in the Autonomous Administration in northern Syria. According to Mohanad al-Yousef, an...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians, including a woman and an a child, were killed when regime artillery pounded the town of Nawa in southern Daraa province in a new violation to de-escalation zone agreement, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The bombardment targeted a...
