(Eqtsad)- Local initiates and civil society  associations in Raqqa are working on removing earth mounds, trenches and the effects of war from the streets of the western towns and villages of Raqqa, while agricultural land is still waiting for similar projects for owners to...

Jordan's state security court has convicted five Syrians of helping Daesh (ISIS) militants carry out a 2016 car bomb attack that led to the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border. The court on Monday imposed the death penalty on one defendant and sentenced three to life in prison. A...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nasr al-Hariri, head of the opposition's negotiation committee was a subject for a US-based spy company over a request of an Arab state tracking  a period when al-Hariri was the Secretary-General of the Coalition.  Flashpoint Partner has provided...

Jets believed to be Syrian and Russian struck heavily crowded residential areas in a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens in the third week of a stepped-up assault, residents, aid workers and a war monitor said on Monday. Civil defense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 71 troops from coastal Latakia province were killed in November as the death toll in pro-regime areas reached 218, news feeds said. Most of the slain troops had been killed by Daesh (ISIS) in Deir Ezzor, Eastern Ghouta suburbs and Hama province. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Sunday have taken the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province after fierce battles with ISIS, the SDF’s media centre said. The YPG-led forces said it will set up local councils in the liberated areas saying the newly...

A minibus smuggling people from Syria into Turkey hit a truck on the Turkish side of the border Sunday, killing 10 people on board and severely injuring seven others, according to the Dogan news agency. The head-on collision happened in Hatay province in the afternoon after a team of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a study made by experts and former military pilots detailing the mounting presence of the regional and international powers in Syria where most of airbases are under control of Iran, Russia, U.S., France and Turkey. Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces and Russia step up aerial and ground bombing on the besieged suburbs near Damascus, opposition news feeds said on Sunday. The strikes targeted the towns of Hammouriya and Harasta, women and children...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 65 troops and militiamen from Hama province were killed in November, pro-regime news feeds said on Saturday. Most of the slain troops were from Mesyaf and Salamiya towns.  The death toll included 12 officers. In neighboring Homs province, 76 troops...

Talal Silo tells details of US arming terror groups in region and how the terrorist PKK/PYD-dominated SDF was formed ANKARA A former spokesperson and defector from the Syrian SDF, a group dominated by the terrorist PKK/PYD, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Friday. Talal Silo, a former...

Women wishing to join the opposition police in the areas liberated during Operation Euphrates Shield will be offered a second training course early December in the  city of al-Bab , Mahmoud Ahmed, a police officer at al-Bab police station, told Al-Monitor. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 76 troops and militiamen from pro-regime Homs neighborhoods were killed in November, local reporter said on Saturday. Most of the troops had been killed by Daesh (ISIS) in Deir Ezzor and Hama provinces. More than 119,000 pro-regime forces have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian human rights watchdog says 996 civilians were killed in November by the Syrian regime, Kurdish-led forces, ISIS, Russia and the US-led coalition. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said  November's death toll recorded a 20% increase in the toll of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the opposition delegation in Geneva agreed with the U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura to abandon the transitional period discussion in the eighth round of Syria's peace talks in contrary to media statements....

Human rights organizations are urging the Greek government and the European Union to immediately start the transfer of asylum seekers to better conditions on Greece’s mainland as winter approaches. Human Rights Watch on Friday said this will be the second winter that asylum seekers will...

The U.S. military is shifting its stance in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday, as the program to arm the Kurdish opposition comes to a close and is replaced by increased support to local police and security forces. Mattis said the Pentagon is “changing the composition of...

 Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. ”The Israeli enemy launched...several surface-to-surface missiles towards a military position,“ it said, adding...

A group of Syrian children and their mothers saw a Turkish play Friday in Istanbul as part of their orientation to life in Turkey. Around 150 Syrian refugees enjoyed the play organized as part of ongoing orientation projects by the Istanbul Greater Municipality. The Women and...

A former spokesperson and defector from the Syrian SDF, a group dominated by the terrorist PKK/PYD, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Friday. Talal Sillo, a former high-ranking commander and spokesperson of the U.S.-backed force who defected from the terrorist group last month, is currently in...