(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition forces battling Islamic State have conducted an airdrop near  al-Mayadeen city northeast of Deir Ezzor province, local activists said on Wednesday. The airdrop of American and allied troops seeks to uproot ISIS from eastern Syria amid fears that...

Millions of Syrians have fled their country's war as refugees, but for tens of thousands of people escaping conflict elsewhere, Syria is also a place of refuge. Among them is Zahraa Abdi, who fled her native Somalia in 2012 and lives in a small room with her three children in northern...

 (Moscow Times)- Almost half of Russians say the Kremlin should withdraw from its military campaign in Syria, according to the results of a Levada Center poll published Tuesday. Some 49 percent of respondents said Russia’s intervention in the Syrian conflict should end while 30...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia on Tuesday has fortified the Assad regime with new de-escalation zone agreement at the eastern gate of the capital, a deal makes most of surrounding districts of Damascus non-war areas.   Eastern Qalamoun that lies on the enclaves of Syria's desert, also known...

By Ethat Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 Sunni civilians killed on Monday by pro-regime militia in the Alawites dominated village of al-Hawat in Hama province, in retaliation to killing of pro-regime militant. The victims were from al-Nuayim and al-Hadidin...

President Donald Trump has decided to end his predecessor's program to shield from deportation children brought to this country illegally, the nation's top law enforcement official said Tuesday. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the decision by claiming the move is in line with...

The dream of Russia 2018 is still alive. They are into a play-off now. We went over to Syria for BBC Sport earlier in the year and spent six days in Damascus and discovered a truly remarkable story. Syria is in the middle of a six-year war and the team have no money because of...

A Kremlin spokesman says President Vladimir Putin has sent his congratulations to Syrian President Bashar Assad after government forces breached the nearly three-year Islamic State siege of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour. Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday that Russian Defense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians killed in regime mortar rounds pounded Misraba suburbs in eastern Ghouta district near the capital, local monitoring group said on Tuesday.   Mahmoud Qadado, Head of Civil Defense in Misrata was also killed when a mortar shell hit the White...

The Syrian regime military has broken a siege of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, surrounded for years by so-called Islamic State, state media say. The official Sana news agency reported that troops and allied militiamen had joined up with forces at the Brigade 137 base on the city's...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  U.S. army through its joint task command in Jordan has demanded allied rebel groups fighting regime forces in Syrian desert to withdraw to Jordan, saying this move will serve the de-escalation zone agreement as their defeat is inevitable.   In an audio...

The Syrian regime military has broken a siege of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, surrounded for years by so-called Islamic State, state media say. The official Sana news agency reported that troops and allied militiamen had joined up with forces at the Brigade 137 base on the city's...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias have taken the historic old city of Raqqa and its ancient mosque as they press their offensive to defeat Islamic State, the U.S.-led coalition said on Monday. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, said last week it had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 722 people killed in August by warring parties in Syria as the U.S.-led coalition killed more than 225 people in deadly airstrikes on ISIS-held areas in eastern Syria, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in report .   The de-escalation zone agreements...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 44 Syrian rebel factions on Monday have agreed to name Jawad Abu Hatab, the Prime Minister of the Syrian Interim Government, as the Defense Minister amid efforts to create a single "national army" to unify the fractured opposition movement.   The idea was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local sources reported that Democratic Union Party (PYD) officials have threatened local populations in areas under its control in the past few days, it will prevent the families from receiving international aid and services and to be denied residence in their areas of...

With a sudden lunge through jihadist lines, the Syrian military and its allies are close to relieving the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor, where Islamic State has besieged an army garrison and 93,000 civilians for years. The advance on the eastern city marks another stinging setback for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The district of Ghanem al-Ali in eastern Syria will remain entrenched in the memory of regime supports, especially the sectarian ones, as this region has turned into a “Syrian Bermuda” swallowing hundreds and hundreds of regime soldiers and mercenaries. The battle of...

Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar. The bloodshed in Myanmar’s northwestern...

Syria’s army and its allies raced towards their enclave in Deir al-Zor after a rapid advance on Sunday, seeking to relieve it after years of Islamic State siege as jihadist defenses suddenly collapsed. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has focused this year on the campaign in Syria’s...