A Syrian official says an international chemical weapons delegation will visit Damascus in the coming days vowing to facilitate its mission to uncover who used chemical weapons in the country earlier this year. Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad said the delegation of the Organization for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Islam on Saturday has mourned 35 members were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a their training camp in southern Daraa province late on Friday. The powerful Islamist group did not accused rival groups of carryng ut the bombing, assuring its...

Syrian regime forces seized full control of the last major town in Homs province held by Daesh (ISIS), Syrian state media reported on Saturday, as the army and its allies press a multi-pronged advance into eastern areas held by the extremist group. Syrian state media cited a military source...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The process of evacuating members of Saraya Ahl al-Sham and about 3000 thousands of civilians from Lebanese border enclave has been delayed until further notice, Lebanese media and group's spokesman said on Saturday. The 300 fighters of Free Syrian Army group were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven Syria Civil Defence workers brutally killed late on Friday when unknown assailants stormed their office in northern Idlib province, the rescue service said on Saturday. The assailants used pistol silencer their attack on Sarmeen office, killing the whole crew and...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- The footage may seem taken from a historical documentary about the suffering of coal miners, but the fact is that it reflects part of the consequences of the blockade imposed by Assad regime on Eastern Ghouta. The people in Ghouta adapted to the blockade by adopting...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The process of repatriating members of Saraya Ahl al-Sham and about 3000 thousands of civilians from Lebanese border enclave has been delayed until further notice, The Daily Star reported Saturday. Fighters of Free Syrian Army group were supposed to pull out from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A suspected ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up inside a training camp for Jaish al-Islam in southern Daraa province, leaving at least 30 fighters dead, source said on Friday.   Yet, no rebel group or the Islamic State have claimed the responsibility for the attack....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State ambushed Syrian regime forces in the eastern countryside of Raqqa on Friday, killing 7 troops and taking three more captive, the militant group’s news feeds said as U.S.-backed forces advanced in the city.   ISIS said it had attacked the regime...

Fighters from Saraya Ahl al-Sham, a Syrian rebel group, will start on Saturday to pull out of an enclave in Lebanon on the border with Syria along with some civilians, a senior Lebanese security official said on Friday. About 300 fighters, along with their families and some other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of opposition-held areas have rallied after Friday Prayers, calling for the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad amid fears of a Russian-American deal to keep him in power.   The demonstrations have recalled the first days of Syrian revolution that erupted in March...

(Eqtsad)- Few Syrians may have started depositing their money in banks prior to and after the revolution, but in liberated areas, there are no commercial banks or banks at all, so how are people saving their money? A few years before the revolution, Muayyad opened a carpet shop in...

More than 600,000 Syrians returned to their homes in the first seven months of this year, nearly as many as in all of 2016, but they are still outnumbered by those freshly displaced, the U.N. migration agency said Friday. Many went back to their areas of origin to check on property or...

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters advancing from eastern and western parts of the northern city of Raqqa have linked up for the first time in weeks after launching their offensive against Daesh (ISIS) militants there. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces launched a wide offensive to capture...

Turkey is taking necessary measures along its 150 km border with the Syrian province of Idlib, where militants linked to a former Al Qaeda-affiliate have taken control, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday. Yildirim was speaking a day after Turkey's customs minister said Turkish...

( The Guardian )- In the early, heady days of the Syrian revolution, opponents of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and advocates for human rights saw an opportunity. “Women were extremely active and present,” says writer and journalist Samar Yazbek. But as the war escalated, some of this hope was lost....

( The New Arab )- Jordan became the first Arab country to begin issuing a new type of work permit to Syrian refugees, the United Nations labour agency said on Wednesday. Work permits for refugees used to be tied to specific employers who applied on behalf of workers to fill specific positions,...

( The Guardian )- Concerns are mounting over the civilian cost of the US-led coalition’s campaign to reclaim Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, with reports of airstrikes killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians.  The reports, which cannot be definitively confirmed but are...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Friday Prayers have been suspended in the northern countryside of  Homs as regime forces keep violating a one-week-old truce, according to statement issued by Shariah Court.   The main clergy body in Hola region said fears over worshipers lives make the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of northern Homs accused Syrian regime army of violating the one-week-old truce on Thursday that left one man dead. Luai al-Izzo, commander of Ahfad Omar Battalion, said regime warplanes carried out 10 raids on Hola region north of Homs, killing one person and...