Syrian regime army declared victory over Islamic State on Thursday, saying its capture of the jihadists’ last town in the country marked the collapse of their three-year, hardline reign in the in the region. The army and its allies are still fighting Islamic State in desert areas near...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Chief negotiator of the opposition’s High Negotiation Committee said the ‘realism’’ is being talked about recently does not mean acceptance of Russian dictates of political solution, stressing that everyone who accepts Russian Sochi should be excluded from Riyad II. The...

 Saudi Arabia has ordered its citizens out of Lebanon amid skyrocketing tensions between their two governments. A brief statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency called on all Saudis living in or visiting Lebanon to depart, and warned against travel to the country. "Due to...

The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said he expects the Syrian army to soon recapture rebel-held Idlib province, as well as eastern Syria, an area where U.S.-backed militias hold swathes of territory. Iran is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Iranian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian doctor was savagely beaten by members of an Islamist group in Douma city, northeastern the capital after a Facebook post criticizing rebels in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists said on Thursday. Nouman al-Fawal, field medic and activist, has expressed...

 The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said he expected the Syrian army to soon recapture rebel-held Idlib province as well as eastern Syria, an area where U.S.-backed fighters hold swaths of territory. Iran is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Iranian official, Ali...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took Markada town, last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Thursday. Capture of Markada followed a series of rapid defeats for the Islamic State in northeastern Syria,  bringing the self-declared caliphate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian human rights watchdog says 923 civilians were killed in October by the Syrian regime, ISIS, Russia and the US-led coalition. The Syrian Network for Human Rights on November 1 said  398 of the deaths were killed by the Syrian regime, including 398...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army and its allied militias have surrounded and started to enter Albu Kamal, Daesh's (ISIS) last significant stronghold in Syria, the pro-Hezbollah al-Manar television reported on Wednesday. Daesh's "caliphate" has been all but destroyed over the past two years...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  An ISIS wanted list issued in Raqqa city before its fall shows that most of the 82 detained people were charged for sorcery, spying, drug dealing, such accusations have no repent and cost some of them their lives. The rapid advances against ISIS by the Syrian...

U.S. and Turkish troops are “illegal invader” forces on Syrian territory and Syria will “deal with” them, a top adviser to President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. Bouthaina Shaaban also said in a television interview that Damascus would not give up on the northern city of Raqqa, which was...

 Russia rejected on Tuesday a report by an international inquiry blaming the Syrian government for a deadly toxic gas attack, casting doubt on whether the U.N. Security Council can agree to extend the investigation’s mandate before it expires next week. Russia vetoed an initial U.S. bid...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's leading rescuing group on Tuesday has appealed to the United Nations to break the four-year-old siege of Eastern Ghouta suburbs where about 400,000 people have been suffering malnutrition and deadly diseases.   The Civils Defense said 10 people,...

Syria's army and its allies will keep fighting in Syria after the battle ends in Deir al-Zor province, where Daesh (ISIS) has its last significant stronghold, President Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday. He also indicated that he might take the war to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

A Syrian official said Tuesday the war-ravaged country plans to sign the Paris climate accord. Until now, it had been the only United Nations member state not to have done so. The move was announced at a global climate meeting in Bonn, Germany. It means the United States would be the...

Russia Tuesday denied postponing a Syria peace conference while not confirming an earlier announced date of Nov. 18, after the plan gained a cool reception from rebel backer Turkey and its Western allies. "This congress is being prepared now," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 49 regime troops from Latakia province were killed in October by the Islamic State in eastern Syria, pro-regime news feeds said. The death toll included 29 officers amid rise in casualties among senior officers ranks who lead the allied militias....

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four Russian reporters were injured by an explosion in Syria’s Deir al-Zor area, RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing Russian defense ministry. RIA said that two of the men injured worked for the NTV TV station and another two for the Zvezda TV station. All four...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran's Revolutionary Guard has formed new militia in southern Daraa province, local activists said on Monday. More than 200 young people have joined the newly-formed 313 Brigade that based in the regime-held town of Izra'. Iran-backed militias have...

A high-ranking Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) official has told Sputnik Turkiye that the US continues to supply them with arms and has recently delivered 120 trucks loaded with heavy armament and armored vehicles for the Deir ez-Zor operation. "The US has supplied us with Hummer armored...