(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 people have been killed in deadly U.S. airstrikes on Raqqa city, local activists said on Monday as more than 40,000 people still trapped by aerial and ground bombing. Raqqa-based activist Ahmed Shalabi said the U.S.-led airstrikes, in support of Kurdish-led...

As Shawakh al-Omar huddled with 16 relatives in a single room in house in Islamic State's Syrian stronghold Raqqa, a mortar round slammed into the home next door, killing four people and shaking the building. The 57-year-old decided they should make a run for it. "We didn't even have...

Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of Daesh (ISIS) fighters on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 militants, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. Daesh is concentrating its forces around Deir al-Zor after being...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A young Syrian police officer was beaten almost to death by pro-Assad militants in Homs province when he was with his patrol checking the cars entering to the central city, activists said on Sunday.   Militants of Nusoor Homs militia, or Homs Eagles, refused to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group arrested 8 moderate fighters over claims they contacted regime army in northern Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.   The rebel fighters, who fled Madaya town with their families last April due to the four-town evacuation...

Rocket fire injured several people Sunday near the entrance to the Damascus International Fair, a key business gathering being held for the first time in five years, Syrian media said. State television, citing its reporters on the scene, said the rocket hit near the entrance of the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that while his country had foiled Western designs to topple him, his army had not won defeated insurgents and the fight was continuing. In an televised address, Assad said that even though there were signs of victory after six-and-a-half years...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two years ago, a lorry found on an Austrian motorway with the decomposing bodies of 71 people, including 15 Syrian migrants and a baby girl, inside. In their memory, Zaman al-Wasl is publishing their names, date of birth and nationality. Austrian police said of...

Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded on Sunday when their armored vehicle hit a landmine on the Lebanese-Syrian border, a security source said. The area where the soldiers were killed was near a border stronghold close to the mountains of Arsal, where...

(Eqtsad)- There are many currency exchange companies in neighboring countries and western countries which transfer money to Syria. The transfer is carried out through individuals and irregular companies that smuggle money from Syria abroad, and are placed in fake accounts or handed over to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 worshipers were killed on Saturday when U.S.-led coalition airstrikes struck a mosque at the Syrian-Iraqi border, local activists said.   The U.S. strikes hit the ISIS-held village of al-Jazza’ In the southern countryside of Hasaka city, two days...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A commander in US-led Syrian Democratic Forces has offended displaced women to force her family to leave their house in the town of al-Shadadi, south of Hasaka city. Local activists confirmed that Ahmed Jaffal Abu Hamza, an element in Deir al-Zour military...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- We do not stand here in clashes zone nor in the headquarters of al-Nusra Front or Islamic State. We are here in the Khan al-Asal area in a camp for the displaced. According to the statistics of the Aleppo Governorate Council, about 200,000 people...

(Eqtsad)- From the time he learned he was going to be taken to the reserve army service in regime army, Imad, who is over thirty in stays inside a rented house in Jidaydat Artuz. Imad is not leaving his house at all for fear of detention and being taken to reserve army service. He also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and dozen more wounded in regime airstrikes on Hola region in central Homs province, local reporter said on Saturday.   The regime warplanes conducted 4 raids in new violation to the de-escalation agreement in the rebel-held northern countryside....

Syriac Orthodox Christians in Syria's northeastern city of Hassakeh celebrated the inauguration of the community's new bishop on Saturday, four years after the last one left the country. Six years of conflict have ravaged Syria and displaced more than half of its population, including...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS affiliated group launched surprise attack on moderate rebels in Southern Daraa province in retaliation to death of its commander in US-led coalition airstrike, rebel spokesman said on Saturday.   Jaysh Khaled Ibn al-Walid, which pledged allegiance to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iraqi refugee was killed and another injured on Friday in brawl with two Syrian refugees in in the German city of Wuppertal, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The activists quoted witnesses in Wuppertal and the German police website as saying that...

A car bomb on Saturday hit the Syrian port city of Latakia with reports of injuries, the Lebanese Hezbollah group's al Manar television station and a monitor said. The television station flashed that an explosive laden car caused the blast in the Tashreen district of the city that lies in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four suffocation cases have been reported in Eastern Ghouta suburbs due to a regime toxic gas attack on the besieged Jobar neighborhood near the capital in spite of two-week-old ceasefire deal, medics said on Saturday. The Medical Center of Jobar said regime forces have...