The United States and France called on Russia on Wednesday to deliver the delegation of President Bashar al-Assad to Syria peace talks in Geneva after discussions on ending the six-year war resumed with no sign of the government attending. The eighth round of negotiations began last...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday a complete victory had been achieved over Islamic State militants on both banks of the Euphrates river in Syria. In comments released by the Kremlin, Putin said the military operation in the area was now finished, and that the focus...

In “Little Gandhi,” a new documentary about the uprising in Syria that began in 2011, two activists are trying to give an interview in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus. With the camera rolling, they pause. There is too much gunfire in the background. “The sniper is about 200 meters away from us,”...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Tahrir al-Sham group backed by Free Syrian Army has thwarted regime forces attack on the town of al-Rahjan in Hama province, military source said on Wednesday. The regime army backed by allied militias have failed to take the town  in the eastern...

Talks on ending the six-year war in Syria resumed on Wednesday with no sign of President Bashar al-Assad’s delegation returning to the negotiations in Geneva after they walked out last week. A source close to the Syrian government’s negotiating team told Reuters the delegation was still...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 displaced people have been killed in Russian airstrikes on Deir Ezzor province as the regime forces backed by Shiite militias claim they have taken full control of the western bank of Euphrates River, local media unit and pro-regime news feeds said. The...

A Saudi-led coalition intensified air strikes on Yemen early on Wednesday as the armed Houthi movement tightened its grip on the capital after it killed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who switched sides in the civil war. Saudi Arabia and its allies struck a day after Saleh’s son...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese charity organization has deceived Syrian refugee women under the pretext of humanitarian work. Oum Abdo, 26, who fled the western Qalamoun during to border Lebanese towns in Bekaa valley, was one of hundreds of Syrian refugee women field workers...

U.N.-backed peace talks for war-ravaged Syria resumed in Geneva Tuesday but without Syrian regime negotiators, who sources said have yet to determine if they will return. An eighth round of peace talks aimed at ending Syria’s 6-year-old war began in Geneva last week. U.N. Syria envoy...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman  Al Wasl)- All the warlords’ actions in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh pushed people to chant, “O Solver Bashar!” “Is it possible for the revolution of the Syrian people to retreat as well as to fade?” One person answers this...

The U.S. military plans to stay in Syria as long as necessary to ensure Daesh (ISIS) does not return, a Pentagon official told AFP on Tuesday. "We are going to maintain our commitment on the ground as long as we need to, to support our partners and prevent the return of terrorist...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State claimed the responsibility for a bomb blast killed eight people and injured 16 others on a bus in central Homs city on Tuesday. Amaq, the group's official news agency said the blast killed 11 members of the regime army. Homs Governor Talal Barazi...

Syrian government negotiators will remain in Damascus Tuesday and Wednesday, a source close to the delegation said, skipping the scheduled resumption of United Nations-led peace talks in Geneva. "The delegation will not leave today or tomorrow for Geneva, and the final decision (on...

A Syrian refugee has been saved at sea after a last-minute check by humanitarian rescuers with binoculars 20 hours after he set out solo in a tiny rubber boat from Libya, where he said he had been working as practically a slave for three years, a rescue official said Monday.  The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 civilians killed when unknown assailant detonated an explosive device inside passenger bus in the central city of Homs, Syrian state television and activists said on Tuesday. State-run Ikhbariya TV said there was "a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Twelve-year-old Basel Alrashdan, who arrived on P.E.I. in December 2015, was part of a crowd of children who rushed to the front of a conference room at the UN and announced the takeover. Alrashdan took part in a rap about children's wishes for the world, based on...

A teenage Syrian refugee won a prestigious international prize on Monday for building a school and providing an education to hundreds of children who fled to Lebanon to escape the conflict. Mohamad Al Jounde was just 12 years old when he decided to set up a school in the Bekaa Valley...

The chairman of Swiss-French cement maker LafargeHolcim (LHN.S) said the company had made unacceptable errors in Syria and that it was cooperating with French investigators, according to an interview published in the French newspaper Le Figaro on Sunday. In April, LafargeHolcim’s chief...

 (Zaman Al Wasl) Israel has waged two missile attacks on Syrian military bases on Monday, according to the State TV and local activists.  The Syrian regime said the Israeli missiles had targeted Jamraya town, about 5 km (3 miles) northwest of the capital. ...

Mezza military airport has returned to service after mending the 2.5 km long runway and securing the key Air Force base in Damascus from opposition shelling. Bashar alAssad's plane took off from Mezza airport last November to Sochi where the Syrian dictator made a thank-you visit for...