(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten people wounded in rocket attack launched by US-led Kurdish forces on al-Bab town in northern Aleppo province, local activists said on Saturday.    The assault of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) late on Friday was the first since Turkey-backed Free...

The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier. The Lebanese army operation got underway at 5 a.m....

Syria's army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, Hezbollah-run media and a war monitor reported on Friday. President Bashar al-Assad's military has advanced against Daesh along two prongs towards...

An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government would confront any "illegitimate" forces, whether Turkish or American. Bouthaina Shaaban said the fact that Syria was staging the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has reached a ceasefire deal with regime forces after weeks of fierce fighting near the capital, the group said in statement Friday.   Failaq al-Rahman agreed to join the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group on Thursday arrested a prominent rebel fighter in northern Idlib province, commander said.   The former al-Qaeda group in Syria arrested Basem al-Hammoud, 34, who operates under the Northern Division banner. The...

Syria has more than six months' worth of strategic wheat reserves, Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Minister Abdullah al-Gharbi said on Thursday. While President Bashar al-Assad has scored vital military gains against rebels seeking to oust him in a six-year-old civil war he is under...

In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 fighters from Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, have been arrested by powerful Jaish al-Islam militia after storming their bastion near the capital, spokesman said.   Wael Alwan, spokesman for Failaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The arrival of new wave of displaced people to the camp of Qana south of the city of Hasaka after Islamic State announced its intention to recruit young people in its areas of control, amid fears of displaced people being harmed by the remnants of primitive crude oil refineries...

Washington's main Syrian ally in the fight against Islamic State says the U.S. military will remain in northern Syria long after the jihadists are defeated, predicting enduring ties with the Kurdish-dominated region. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An aid convoy of food and medical supplies has reached the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Thursday as a part of the de-escalation deal brokered by Russia two weeks ago, Local Coordination Committees said.   Along with the Syrian Arab Red...

Syrian opposition groups say Fadwa Suleiman, a Syrian actress who took center stage at anti-government protests in the early days of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, has died. She was 46. The Syrian National Coalition opposition group said Thursday that Suleiman passed away in...

Syria's war has entered a new phase as President Bashar al-Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from Islamic State, using firepower freed by Russian-backed truces in western Syria. Backed by Russia and Iran, the government hopes to steal a march on U.S.-backed militias in the...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) plans to carry out urgent repairs to Tabqa Dam near the Syrian city of Raqqa in an area recaptured from Islamic State, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The aid agency was able to enter Raqqa and Hassakeh provinces in late July for the first...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS suicide bomb attack killed at least 15 pro-regime Shiite militants east of the ancient city of palmyra as fierce clashes still underway near an oil-rich area, field sources said on Wednesday.   The death toll of ISIS attacks in the last 24 hours reach total...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, said on Wednesday it had ambushed army’s elite forces for the fourth time in two weeks near the capital, leaving 20 soldiers killed, spokesman said.   The elite forces of Fourth...

(Eqtsad)- The voices of crying children began to be heard by the doctor in charge of many of them while checking up on them. The doctor placed a medical headset on the chest of a child while a group of newborns slept in transparent incubators in the second room. A few years ago, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have completely destroyed a church in Raqqa as allied Kurdish forces engage in fierce clashes with the Islamic State inside the city, local monitoring groups said Wednesday.   ‘Our Lady of the Annunciation’ church in the neighborhood of...

An Israeli television report said on Tuesday that Iran is building a facility in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets, and showed satellite images it said were of the site under construction. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week that Iran was...