(Zaman Al Wasl)-  The Syrian regime army backed by Russian jets on Thursday stepped up shelling and airstrikes on a besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs in Damascus two days after rebels stormed an army base in the area, rebels, a war monitor and residents said. The aerial bombing left...

The Syrian army backed by Russian jets on Wednesday stepped up shelling and air strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave in Damascus a day after rebels stormed an army base in the area, rebels, a war monitor and residents said. The bombardment follows a surprise ground offensive by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Saudi Arabia has invited 144 opposiiton blocs and figures to attend what it called an "expanded" conference next Wednesday, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The National Coalition and the key opposition platforms of Cairo and Moscow have been invited amid aims to unify its...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Crowds of Shiite pilgrims coming to Damascus have multiplied enormously this year in celebration of the Arba'een Pilgrimage,  the world's largest Shiite public gathering that is held at the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians were wounded when an explosive device detonated in al-Nouaima town in southern Daraa province, military source told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. Activists and rebel groups have accused regime forces of planting landmines and explosive devices in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for the U.S.-led Syrian Democratic Forces has defected over a coordination with the Turkish intelligence, sources said on Wednesday,  No further details revealed about Colonel Talal Sillo who read most of the victory statements of the Kurdish-led alliance...

The main Syrian Kurdish political party, the PYD, said on Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition against Daesh (ISIS) should continue to operate in Syria while there is no political solution to the Syrian crisis. PYD's co-president, Shahoz Hasan, in a written message to Reuters, was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The third part of Yellow Box documentay about the Syrian Chemcial weapons has fouced on the deadly checmical attack on Eastsern Ghouta on August 21, 2013 that left more than 1466 people killed and how the Lebanese Hezbollah militia took part in the massacre. ...

 Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday an employee had attached the wrong photos to a statement accusing the United States of providing de-facto air cover for Islamic State in Syria after the mistake was spotted online. The ministry said it would investigate the incident, which...

 Turkey on Tuesday said it was appalled by the approach of the U.S. Department of Defense towards an agreement between the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State to withdraw Islamic State militants from the Syrian city of Raqqa. Last month, a YPG militia spokesman said that...

Syria signs Paris climate agreement, leaving US as lone outsider Syria has officially signed up to the Paris Agreement, the UN said Tuesday, leaving the United States as the only country rejecting the global climate-rescue pact. “The Syrian Arab Republic deposited its...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday urged Australia to accept New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 refugees from an abandoned Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea, as about 450 men remain barricaded inside without food or water. The asylum seekers have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A special source revealed to Zaman al-Wasl exclusive and highly sensitive information about the secret Zouba Center which regime has chosen for decades to prepare and produce chemicals that were later used to suppress and exterminate the Syrian people. The source, who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS suicide attacks on Monday killed at least 20 regime troops and allied Shiite militants in Deir Ezzor province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The first car bomb attack took place near Hamdan airbase in Albu Kamal town, killing 17 troops, activists Salama...

International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, according to a document seen by Reuters. A joint inquiry for the United Nations and global...

Saudi Arabia will host what it called an "expanded" conference for the Syrian opposition this month, aiming to unify its position ahead of United Nations-backed peace talks, the state news agency SPA reported on Monday. Saudi Arabia backs a grouping of opposition figures called the High...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Zaman al-Wasl obtained an official document condemning the Syrian regime by revealing regime manipulation of handing over its entire chemical weapons stockpile a few days before the arrival of UN experts to begin the chemical disarmament in implementation of a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of ivilians, including children, killed and wounded in Russian airstrikes on a marketplace in Atareb town in northern Aleppo province despite a "de-escalation zone" in place there, a monitor and local activists said on Monday. The initial...

Daesh (ISIS) militants regained control of Albukamal, their last stronghold in Syria, after Iranian-backed militias who claimed to have captured the city a few days earlier were ambushed and forced to retreat, tribal leaders, residents and a war monitor said on Monday. Fighters from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have made new gains in Khabur basin near the Turkish border, taking strategic town on Sunday. Kurdish news feeds said. The SDF seized the town of al-Basira from Daesh east of Deri Ezzor city after a week of clashes. Meanwhile,...