(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's airstrikes on Tuesday have struck Tahrir al-Sham bastions in northern Idlib province, leaving 12 field commanders dead and its leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani severely injured , Russian Defense ministry and local activists said. The...

 Turkey is luring militants away from the jihadist alliance that controls Syria’s northwestern Idlib province as a step toward implementing a deal to reduce violence there, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Idlib is one of four “de-escalation” zones which foreign...

 Israel’s defense minister said on Tuesday President Bashar al-Assad was winning Syria’s civil war and urged the United States to weigh in as Damascus’s Iranian and Hezbollah allies gain ground. Avigdor Lieberman’s comments marked a reversal for Israel, where top officials had from...

 Islamic State released a video on Tuesday that it said showed two Russian soldiers captured by its fighters in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, where Russia has been backing the Syrian military against militants. But the Russian Defence Ministry denied their soldiers had been...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Miziara town in northern Lebanon have expelled dozens of Syrian refugees over a crime committed against a 26-year-old girl by Syrian concierge on Sep 22.  Local residents staged a sit-in in front of the municipal building and the municipality...

(Middle East Eye)- Syria's grand mufti has sided with India over the Myanmar Rohingya crisis in a TV interview last week. In an attempt to justify attempts to deport up to 40,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees, the Indian government told the country’s top court last week that the Rohingya who...

 By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representative of the Syrian National Coalition in Washington has revealed the outcomes of the opposition’s High Negotiation Committee visit with Western officials followed the Regular Session of the U.N. General Assembly in September....

U.S.-backed fighters Monday combed through a central district of Syria's Raqqa that once housed key Daesh (ISIS) command centers, recovering communication equipment and weapons used by the militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured around 90 percent of Daesh's one-time...

Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and millions displaced since the war erupted in...

RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Raqqa’s hospital, a big complex pocked with bullets holes, whose capture will signal the end of Islamic State’s crumbling Syrian capital, lies just 200 yards from a front-line base of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Beyond it, a roundabout where the jihadists once...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hezbollah’s al-Radhwan forces commander Ali al-Aa'shiq has been killed in a blast in Syrian al-Badiya desert along with fellow commander, the Lebanese militia said on Monday. The blow come hours  after a U.S. drone bombed Hezbollah bastions in Hamima village east...

At least 15 people were killed on Monday by bombings that targeted a police station in the capital Damascus' Midan neighborhood, pro-government al-Ekhbariah TV reported. Several suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in front of the police station and inside, according to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia’s warplanes have conducted more than 50 raids since early Monday on eastern Deir Ezzor province, killing at least 14 people in the border town of Albukamal, local monitoring group said. Furat Post said the deadly strikes on the strategic town have topped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 Hezbollah militants killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike on their bastion in the Syrian desert at the enclaves of Deir Ezzor province, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Monday. The death of the Lebanese militia has increased in the last four hours to a total of 20...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria’s border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, Reuters said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding...

A group of Turkish graffiti artists has created a number of anti-war murals in Bragitte, a small village in northwestern Syria's Azaz. The village, retaken in the Turkey-led Operation Euphrates Shield, saw the artists use war-ravaged buildings as canvases. Speaking to Anadolu...

(Eqtsad)- In a war-torn country, the capital remained the least affected region during the sev en year- war in Syria, making it a haven for local commercial investment. Private education is one of the lucrative business ventures that businessmen are still using to steal money from...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that Islamic State fighters had seized control of the town of al-Qaryatayn in Homs province, part of a wider counterattack by the jihadists as they resist a fierce offensive in eastern Syria. There was no comment from the Syrian...

By Maya Gebeily  (AFP)- Just after sunrise outside Syria's Raqa, dozens of Islamic State group jihadists donned Kurdish military uniforms, piled into cars with weapons, and broke back into a district they lost control of months ago. The raid was the latest evidence that IS,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Saturday has executed three prominent figures of al-Sheitaat tribe who had been ambushed by ISIS after a support visit to their allied tribesmen in Deir Ezzor province. The radical group showed no mercy with key tribe in eastern Syria and Iraq after...