(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS-planted landmines have killed five civilians in eastern Raqqa city, local monitoring group said on Saturday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said 5 people had been killed in explosives left by ISIS militants. The radical group was defeated by the US-backed...

ISIS (Daesh) may be on the run from its last bastion in Syria but the United States is gearing up for a longer stay in the country. And if U.S. forces are to counter Iranian and Russian influence as Syria struggles to emerge from civil war, they will need Turkey's help. But...

A Syrian warplane struck an orphanage in Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus on Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Turkish IHH humanitarian agency. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Selim Tosun said the attack targeted the “Hope Tree” orphanage, which accommodates 50 children....

Syria’s grinding war has killed over 340,000 people since it broke out in 2011, including more than 100,000 civilians, an activist group said Friday. The death toll increased as key international powers step up diplomatic efforts to bring an end to the brutal conflict, and just days...

The Pentagon is expected to acknowledge as early as Monday that the U.S. has about 2,000 troops in Syria, according to a Reuters report. The number does not represent an increase in troop levels in the country, but simply reflects a more accurate count. The official troop count in Syria...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed on Friday in clashes with ISIS in Homs desert, pro-regime news feeds said. Two Hezbollah militants were among the casualties of al-Hemeima battles as the regime forces press to capture last ISIS strongholds in...

Syria’s main opposition group selected Nasr Hariri to head the negotiating team at a new round of U.N.-backed peace talks with the Damascus government in Geneva next week, a spokesman told Reuters on Friday. The decision came at a summit in Riyadh where, a day before, the opposition...

U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Washington will not give terror group PKK/PYD weapons anymore, said Turkish foreign minister. Remarks by Mevlut Cavusoglu came after Trump and Erdogan held a telephone conversation on Friday to...

Russia is working together with Saudi Arabia to unify the Syrian opposition, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Friday. Lavrov was speaking at a meeting with United Nations special envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, who is visiting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 13 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes on last ISIS-held villages in eastern Syria in the past 48 hours, local media unit said on Friday. Journalist Suhaib al-Jaber from Furat Post said 8 people, including two women,...

China hopes Syria can show “flexibility” in promoting peace talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday in a meeting with an adviser to Syria’s president, adding that China would help with its reconstruction. Syria’s six-year-old civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of...

The intelligence that President Donald Trump leaked to top Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting in May concerned a highly sensitive Israeli special forces mission, it has been revealed. The operation, which took place in February 2017, involved commandos infiltrating an area under the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clerics suspended Friday Prayers in Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces backed by Russian jets intensify aerial bombing on the besieged district of Damascus, local activists said. Eastern Ghouta came under major aerial and ground campaign killed more than 90 people...

As Islamists continue to lose ground, the US administration reportedly fears that northern territories, where its troops have been training rebel forces, will fall to the Syrian regime. The United States plans to keep a military presence in Kurdish-dominated northern Syria after...

Syrian opposition will form a 50-member delegation to participate in U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva, the main Syrian opposition meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh told a news conference late on Thursday. “There will be further meetings tomorrow to decide the members of the delegation...

The size of Russia's military force in Syria is likely to be significantly reduced and a drawdown could start before the end of the year, the chief of the Russian military general staff said on Thursday. Russia's military support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, notably through air...

Syria's main opposition stuck by its demand Thursday that President Bashar Assad play no role in an interim period under any U.N.-sponsored peace deal, despite speculation it could soften its stance because of Assad's battlefield strength. "The participants stressed that this [the...

RIYADH: Syria's fragmented opposition doubled down on attempts to unify their ranks on Thursday, the second day of a Saudi-sponsored meeting ahead of next week's U.N.-brokered peace talks. Around 140 opposition figures are gathered in Riyadh in a bid to form a unified delegation to meet...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias have taken control of al-Quriya town, one of last ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria, local sources said Thursday. Three women and a child girl were killed in the aerial bombing on the town east of al-Mayadeen city. ISIS fighters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Russian jets have have intensified bombing on Eastern Ghouta suburbs in a major campaign killed more than 90 people and deepened the suffering of 400,000 blockaded people, local activists said on Thursday. The bombardment left 11 people...