(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement tortured a man to death n the northern countryside of Aleppo province over claims he was an ISIS fighter, relatives told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Ahrar al-Sham admitted in statement that members of the group had tortured Mohamed al-Ahmed...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Om Nader, a Syrian refugee woman with a family of ten, two of them with intellectual disability, tells to Zaman TV about her suffering story and how the family was expelled from Jordan to live later in a makeshift refugee camp in Bariqa village south of Quneitra, at the...

A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the jihadists have been fighting the Lebanese army on one front and Hezbollah with the regime army on the other. The Lebanese army announced that a ceasefire in its own offensive took...

Iraqi forces raised the national flag on Saturday in the heart of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s stronghold in the country’s northwest, and said they were poised to take full control of the city after a week-long offensive. Tal Afar is the latest objective in the U.S.-backed war on the...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for the opposition's High  Negotiations  Committee  Dr. Monzer Makhous confirmed the Syrian opposition no longer owns a national Syrian decision in view of all this international and regional interference in the Syrian...

Syrian Kurdish authorities on Saturday began laying the groundwork for the first local elections in the federal system they are establishing in the country's north, an official told AFP. Hadiya Youssef, co-chair of the federal system's constituent assembly, said three rounds of elections...

( The Wall Street Journal )- Before launching the battle to capture Islamic State’s de facto capital, the U.S.-led military coalition dropped leaflets calling on extremists to surrender. On the ground, militants were going door to door, demanding that residents pay their utility bills....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes killed t hree shepherds on Friday in the southern countryside of Hasaka, medics told Zaman al-Wasl.   The U.S. strikes targeted sheep herds in an ISIS held territory near Markada, the last ISIS stronghold in the southern...

Zaman Al Wasl TV interviewed the discipled of Uqayribat, a subdistrict of the Salamiyah city in Hama province, who fled the ISIS-held territory to Idlib province. The interviewees talked about a forgotten chemical attack on Uqayribat by Assad regime last December that killed at least 90...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime figures released showed that females are more likely than men to register at the employment offices, and by a very large percentage. The number of men registering has decreased significantly.  Raed Neama, the head of the employment office at the...

( BBC )- The jagged ruins of Sukhna, rising in the midst of an infinite expanse of desert sand, can feel like the middle of nowhere. But this strategic crossroads in eastern Syria, surrounded by gas fields, is a major prize for Syria's army in its offensive against the last remains of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven rebel factions operating under Elite Forces in northeastern Syria have joined the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, according to a statement issued on Friday.   The factions which mostly formed by tribesmen have defected from the Saudi-backed group...

Daesh (ISIS) militants pushed back government forces advancing on one of the last towns still in Daesh hands in the province of Raqqa, killing over two dozen soldiers and seizing vehicles, a Syria monitoring group and the extremists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition have carried out two airdrops of forces in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour province within the last 36 hours, tracking families of ISIS senior commanders, a monitor group and local activists said. The airdrops took place in the ISIS-held...

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces will launch an offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) from Deir al-Zor province "very, very soon", an official from the alliance told Reuters Friday. Ahmed Abu Khawla, head of the Deir al-Zor military council which fights under the SDF, said the assault might...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The autonomous Kurdish administration halted the construction works in three schools sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in northeastern Syria over demands to implement the Kurdish curriculum in these schools, local reporter said.  ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has built a base for its S-400 long-range air defense missile systems in Hama province, well-informed sources said, 15 km (10 miles) far from the newly-discovered Iranian missile facilities in the most loyal area to Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The key...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State denied Syrian regime reports of advances east of Raqqa city on Thursday, saying it has recaptured 4 villages and killed about 100 soldiers and allied militants, 58 of them in suicide bombing attack.   The radical group's news feeds said ISIS fighters...

The Syrian army and its allies have surrounded Islamic State forces in a second large enclave in the center of the country, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said on Thursday. The Syrian military advanced south from southern areas of Raqqa province, joining up with their forces north of...

The United Nations called on Thursday for a humanitarian pause to allow an estimated 20,000 trapped civilians to escape the Syrian city of Raqqa, and urged the U.S.-led coalition to rein in air strikes that have caused casualties. "Boats on the Euphrates must not be attacked, people who come...