(Zaman Al Wasl)- A disabled Syrian child with sever illness has failed for the fifth day to leave the Kurdish-held Qana refugee camp in northern Hasaka province. Jassem Hawwash, 7-year-old, who needs urgent health care has been trapped in the camp as the powerful Kurdish PYD...

The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of the narrow roads, block after block. Fighting between U.S.-backed militias and Daesh (ISIS) in the militant group’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance on Friday have launched new major attack on regime forces in Hama province, two days after Damascus declared that the central province is free of the Islamic State. The attack took place in the pro-regime village of Abu Dali which...

The Syrian regime army and its allies have advanced to within 10 km of Mayadin, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said Friday, bringing them close to a city seen as the current main base of Daesh (ISIS). They have won control of positions and heights parallel to the main road...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people killed on Friday in regime airstrikes on the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun as regime forces backed by Russian step up aerial campaign on opposition-held Idlib province. The regime warplanes conducted 5 raids on a local marketplace in the town, leaving...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters shot down a Russian helicopter on Thursday in the central province of Hama, sources said. The Ka-52 Alligator was shot down near the strategic town of Uqayribat while the ISIS fighters were withdrawing from their last stronghold in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 fleeing people have been killed late on Thursday in renewed Russian airstrikes on eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping death toll of strikes on displaced people to 62 in 48 hours, local media group said. Furat Post news site said the strikes had targeted...

(The  Independent)- The Russian air force arrived in Syria two years ago this week to save President Bashar al-Assad and his army. They succeeded. The Syrian army held out, albeit at the cost of (then) 56,000 of its soldiers.  “We’re not going to have another Afghanistan...

Syria is in the throes of its worst fighting since the battle for eastern Aleppo last year, with heavy air strikes causing hundreds of civilian casualties, aid agencies said on Thursday. Hospitals, schools and people fleeing violence have been “targeted by direct air strikes” that may...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's artillery and mortar rounds have pounded opposition-held areas in southern Daraa city despite of the 2-month-old Cessation of Hostilities agreement, local activists said on Friday. Omar al-Masalmeh, Daraa-based activist, said the Old City of Daraa has...

Syrian opposition groups are resisting Jordanian pressure to hand control of a border crossing back to the Syrian government, a step that would be a major boost for President Bashar al-Assad and undermine rebel groups in southwestern Syria. Talks over reopening the Nasib crossing have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The representative of the National Coalition in the Gulf Cooperation Council said Syria's opposition figures had failed to gain the trust of the Syrian people who see them not convincing  Idlib Shishakly told Zaman al-Wasl the some of mainstream opposition...

Syria's Tahrir al-Sham militant group denied in a statement on social media on Wednesday that its leader had been critically wounded in a Russian air strike and said he was in good health and performing his duties. The Russian Defence Ministry said it had seriously injured Abu Mohamad...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Negotiation committee in northern Homs and southern Hama area said a new ceasefire deal has been reached on Wednesday as the humanitarian corridors will be opened again after two weeks of escalation. Syrian activists have surfaced on social media a copy of the...

The Syrian regime army and allied fighters drove Daesh (ISIS) from their last positions in the central province of Hama on Wednesday after heavy fighting, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, said Daesh was no longer present...

(Reuters) - Samples from an attack by Syrian forces in March on an opposition-held town tested positive for the banned nerve agent sarin in an examination by the global chemical weapons watchdog, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The March 30 air strike in the town of Latamneh, in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed last September by the Islamic State in Syrian desert, according to Zaman al-Wasl Arabic. The death toll included 28 senior officers who mostly killed in major offensive  The last week of September, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 fleeing people have been killed on Wednesday in Russian airstrikes on eastern Deir Ezzor province, local media group said. Journalist Suhaib Jaber from Furat Post news site said the strikes had targeted civilians were trying to cross the Euphrates River from...

(Reuters) - Ahmed Ali, a 34-year-old teacher, fled the war in Syria two years ago and settled in a quiet Austrian town on the hilly border with the Czech Republic. He was hoping to raise a family there. But voter attitudes towards immigrants have hardened due to concerns about security...

 The Action Group For Palestinians of Syria said at least 5233 Palestinian refugees were subjected to physical abuse during the ongoing violence in Syria. The documentation team of AGPS has also revealed that 3594 deaths were recorded, due to bombardment, the siege,...