(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias seized 8 villages from the Islamic State near Markada town, the last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Sunday. Abdulmalek al-Ali said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had captured the town of al-Hasain in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel groups clashed early Sunday near Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey after a week of handing over the crossing to the opposition government. Al-Shamiya Front has accused Sultan Murad Brigade of attacking its convoy in al-Hamran district in the northern...

The Turkish army is expanding its deployment in northwest Syria with the goal of encircling a Kurdish enclave and reining in Russian strikes in the Idlib border province under a deal to reduce clashes, rebels and witnesses said on Sunday. A convoy of Turkish army troops entered Syria...

A Syrian fashion designer has sparked anger after she posed on the catwalk with models dressed in Syrian military uniforms at a show in Lebanon. Manal Ajaj made the political statement on Wednesday at the end of her fashion show "Jasmin Goddess" at a hotel in Beirut. The...

Syrian regime and allied forces have taken the eastern town of al-Mayadeen from Islamic State, a Syrian military source said on Saturday, further weakening the militants' diminishing presence in Syria. Al-Mayadeen, near the Iraqi border in Deir al Zor province, had become a major base...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel factions operating in southern Syria, in statement issued Saturday, said it will retaliate against regime violations for the de-escalation agreement in Daraa province. The operation room of al-Bunyan al-Marsous said the regime army had pounded the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of people in opposition-held areas and over 50 cities around the world went to streets on Friday, demonstrating for the freedom of the Syrian people. The solidarity photos and rallies come in response to a social media campaign,  #SyrianDayOfRage,...

(Reuters) - All Islamic State fighters left in Syria’s Raqqa are expected to leave the city on Saturday night, taking civilians with them as human shields, a local official told Reuters. Omar Alloush, a member of the Raqqa Civil Council, set up to run Raqqa after it is freed from IS,...

ISIS is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the militants on Saturday or Sunday, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia told Reuters on Saturday. The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS said around 100 of the jihadist group's fighters had surrendered in Raqqa...

Some 100 fighters from ISIS handed themselves over to US-backed fighters in the northern city of Raqqa Friday as fighting continued with remaining gunmen in a pocket inside the city. Omar Alloush of the Raqqa Civilian Council did not give details how the 100 fighters surrendered but...

Turkish forces recently deployed in Syria's Idlib province have their own strategy and are "not bounded by just resistance or defense," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The troops referred to by the president entered Syria as part of a monitoring mission agreed upon by...

 The World Health Organization said on Friday it had received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that had destroyed a store containing more than 130,000 vaccine doses against measles and polio. If confirmed, the WHO said, the attack would put thousands of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia’s concrete efforts have succeeded in releasing a regime military pilot from a supposed 12-year imprisonment in Turkey and delivering him to the Syrian regime. After finishing his court papers on Friday, Turkish authorities has deported Colonel Mohammed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have recaptured two villages were seized early Friday by the regime forces near the Jordanian border, local activists said.   The surprise attack on Allajat region along the border with Jordan come despite a two-month-old ceasefire deal that was...

(Reuters) - Turkey’s military has begun setting up observation posts in northwest Syria’s Idlib province, its General Staff said on Friday, part of a deployment that appears partly aimed at containing a Kurdish militia. Turkey sent a convoy of about 30 military vehicles into rebel-held...

(New York Times)— Ali Shehadeh, a seed hunter, opened the folders with the greatest of care. Inside each was a carefully dried and pressed seed pod: a sweet clover from Egypt, a wild wheat found only in northern Syria, an ancient variety of bread wheat. He had thousands of these folders stacked...

Kurdish authorities have sent thousands more troops to the oil region of Kirkuk to confront "threats" from Iraq's central government, the vice president of the autonomous Kurdistan region said Friday. Tens of thousands of Kurdish soldiers were already stationed there and another 6,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have conducted more than 10 raids on ISIS-held areas in southern Damascus suburbs, local reporter said on Friday. The surprise aerial attack on al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood come after two years of calm amid reports of evacuation deal...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities has released a Syrian pilot who was detained seven months ago after he ejected from his warplane at the Turkish border, pro-regime Masdar News reported on Thursday. Colonel Mohamed Soufan, 55, has been freed by the Turkish 3rd Court in the...

(Reuters) - Children returning to school in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab were handed a new textbook this term: “Türkçe Öğreniyorum” - “I am learning Turkish”. Turkish lessons, Turkish signposts, Turkish-trained police and mostrecently a Turkish post office all point to...