A Russian-backed Congress of Syrian peoples in the Russian city of Sochi has been postponed until February, Russia's RIA news agency reported Monday, citing a diplomatic source. The event, called the Syrian Congress on National Dialogue, was initially to be held in November but some...

A breakthrough in U.N.-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva this week seems hardly more likely than in seven failed earlier rounds as President Bashar al-Assad pushes for total military victory and his opponents stick by their demand he leave power. U.N. Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 civilians have been killed on Monday in renewed airstrikes on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Capital, local activists said. Monday’s strikes targeted Madyara suburb topping the death toll to 160 people, including 30 children, since the...

Syrian regime came under pressure Monday to fill in gaps in its declaration to the world's chemical weapons watchdog amid reports of toxic arms use during its six-year civil war, triggering angry Syrian denials. A fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The educational process in Syrian opposition-held eastern Qalamoun region is facing many challenges and difficulties as most schools suffer lack of textbooks provided by the regime. Hazem Bakr, a pseudonym for a faculty member in the tow of al-Rahiba northeastern...

At least 80 people have been killed in just over 24 hours in suspected Russian and Syrian government shelling in the eastern and southern parts of Syria.  The majority of those killed were civilians.  In the eastern province of Deir Az Zor, suspected Russian warplanes...

The Syrian regime's delegation delayed its departure to the peace talks due to resume in Geneva on Tuesday. The pro-Syrian government newspaper al-Watan cited on Monday sources in Geneva saying the Syrian government was not pleased by the statement made last week in a Syrian opposition...

Abdulkafi Auni, heavily wounded after unknowingly playing football with a bomb, is getting better every day in Turkey’s southern Kilis province. Nearly a week ago, five children were heavily wounded after playing with a bomb they found underneath the soil in Syria’s northeastern Aleppo...

More than 24,700 women have been killed in Syria since the outbreak of the country’s civil war in 2011, according to a London-based NGO. In a new report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said a total of 24,746 women have lost their lives in Syria since March 2011. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 1400 regime troops have been killed and wounded in a month of clashes with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama provinces, the group's news site said on Sunday. Iba'a news agency said in a death toll infographic that 400 regime troops and allied...

 Six Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers hit Daesh (ISIS) targets in Syria's Deir al-Zor province Sunday, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defense Ministry as saying. The bombers that flew from an airfield in Russia hit "terrorist strongholds" in the valley of the Euphrates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians were killed when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes hit last ISIS pockets in eastern Deir Ezzor province in support of Kurdish-led forces, local media unit said on Sunday. The suspected Egyptian jets struck the towns of al-Sha’fa and Dernej in the eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "God, Syria and Bashar, only." This is how the arm of extremism extended to embrace thug culture and unite with it. The phrase was written on the walls of a hall dedicated to collecting donations for war torn people in Syria in western France. Syria Charity organized...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 23 civilians killed in deadly airstrikes hit the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Capital, local activists said on Sunday. Sunday's aerial and ground shelling killed 13  people in Misraba, and 10 more in Madyara and neighbouring suburbs....

The next stage of elections will be held in Kurdish-held areas in northern Syria on December 1.  Over 30 parties and entities will participate in the elections of representatives for local councils, Ibrahim Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the PYD, the dominant party in the Kurdish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took an oil-rich ground from ISIS along the Iraqi border near the town of Albu Kamal, the Kurdish-led alliance said on Sunday. The YPG-led forces are now 9 km (6 miles) far from Albu Kamal, such a progress may spark a battle with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Rawa'a, a 4-year-old Syrian refugee girl, plays in front of the door of her rented house near the Lebanese capital of Beirut, she is waiting for help that might save her right eye, which doctors decided to eradicate. Rawa'a  began to complain of pain in the eye...

The trilateral meeting between Iran, Russia and Turkey in the Russian resort of Sochi this week was “a right step, at the right time” for stability in Syria, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. Russia’s Vladimir Putin won the backing of Turkey and...

Russian long-range bombers hit Daesh (ISIS) targets in the northeast of Syria on Saturday, Russian news agencies cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying.

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 10 displaced people, including women and children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes on a refugee camp in eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping the death toll to 33 in the past 48 hours, local media unit said on Saturday. Furat Post news site said 60 more...