(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday have seized full control of southern neighborhoods of Raqqa, tightening the noose of Islamic State fighters, local monitoring group said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the Kurdish-led alliance took Hisham Ibn...

Russia's Defence Ministry and Syria's opposition have agreed to create a new "de-escalation" zone north of the city of Homs, the ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, was shown saying on Russia's state Rossiya 24 TV channel on Thursday. A ceasefire in this area is set to take affect at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's airstrikes killed at least 14 civilians, mostly family members, in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local monitoring group saidon Thursday. The strikes of Bashar Assad’s key ally struck a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tabanni village in the western...

(Zambian Al Wasl)- Razan Khaebbiya, aSyrian engineer,  has devoted herself to help the children of the Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, especially those with special needs who got injured in the war.  A year ago, Khaebbiya set up a project called the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- We are not the only ones who have visited the prisons of ISIS in Manbaj, but this time we have found testimonies of a new kind that document the organization's hideous methods of torture. On the way to ISIS famous prisons, one of the fighters in the Manbaj Military...

The United States warned a takeover of rebel-held northwestern Idlib province by Syrian militants linked to a former al-Qaeda affiliate would have grave consequences and make it difficult to dissuade Russia from renewing bombing that recently stopped. In an online letter posted late on...

A Palestinian-Syrian software pioneer has been executed in prison after being arrested five years ago by Syrian authorities in Damascus, his widow and colleagues said Wednesday, in what Amnesty International said was a “grim reminder of Syrian prison horrors.”  Noura Ghazi Safadi wrote...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State militants attacked regime forces and their allies in the countryside east of Homs and Hama on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Heavy fighting raged around the mountainous Jabal al-Shomariya area in Homs province, and the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Former al-Qaeda group has executed a Syrian refugee famed for burglary and excessive abuses against refugees in the Lebanese town of Arsal, local reporter said Wednesday. Before leaving the mountainous border region to Idlib province over an evacuation deal with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- On August 1st 2012, Syrian regime forces supported by its thugs stormed Jdeidet al-Fadel neighborhood in Damascus suburb and and the first statistics of the number of martyrs of civilians exceeded 500 between a child and an old women. The inhabitants of the small...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 50 civilians on Wednesday in Raqqa city, half of which is still held by ISIS, activists and local monitoring group said.  Most of the casualties fell in Albusrarya neighborhood after deadly aerial bombing by the...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees who is preparing themselves to leave Arsal camps to northern Idlib province have offered their refrigerators, washing machines, tent brushes, birds of all kinds and cars for sale in what they call 'Idlib Market'. Abu Abdo...

Syrian refugees stranded in Greece chanted "no more waiting!" and protested outside the German embassy in Athens on Wednesday against delays in reuniting with their relatives in Germany. About 100 people, among them young children, marched from parliament to the embassy holding up cardboard...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abusing Syrian refugees photos which circulated by the Turkish social media have put the reputation of the country and its authorities at a new test, particularly with regard to the border guards treatment of Syrians crossing into Turkish territory. The photographs,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has recalled Talal Tlass, retired military officer to lead again his former post as Deputy Minister of Defense, sources said. The move come over Russian recommendation, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, as Assad’s key ally seeks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local council of Ein Tarma said the town is a stricken as regime forces wage fierce ground and aerial campaign killed and wounded 140 people since a ceasefire reached last week. The council said 40 civilians have been killed and 100 more wounded since Russia brokered a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime arrested several women on their way back from Idlib to their town in Madaya, in the countryside of Damascus, local activists reported. Media activist Abdul Wahab Ahmad said that elements from the Fourth Division, an elite force led by Maher al-Assad,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Red Cross delivered 4 bodies for Saraya Ahl al-Sham group were killed in fighting with Hezbollah due to a ceasefire reached last week at the Syrian-Lebanon border, spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Omar al-Sheikh said one of the bodies belongs to a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 103 regime troops, including 21 officers, were killed by the Islamic State in Syrian desert in July, local reporter said. 90 soldiers were from central Homs province as the clashes with east take place in the eastern countryside and the desert; also known...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out at least 20 raids on the northern countryside of central Homs province in the last four days, local reporter said. The strikes hit al-Hola region, an array of rebel-held villages north of Homs.  The regime army has also pounded...