The U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are on the verge of seizing full control of the southern neighborhoods of Daesh (ISIS)-held Raqqa, a Kurdish official said on Tuesday. The U.S.-led coalition said SDF fighters advancing from the east were within 300 metres of meeting up with...

( The New York Times )- The boy did not want to see a beheading, so he held his mother’s hand tight and tried to close his eyes. But seeing it was mandatory when the Islamic State ruled his hometown in northern Syria: If you were out on the street, you had to watch. The boy, now 11 and a...

George and Amal Clooney said on Monday they would help 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says 200,000 children are not receiving an education after fleeing the war in neighboring Syria. The Clooney Foundation for Justice said it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has extended the military duty of Jamil al-Hassan, his close advisor for another year, delaying the retirement the head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate for the seventh time, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Maj Gen...

Syria's regime says Saudi authorities continue to place restrictions on Syrian citizens looking to take part in this year's hajj, accusing the kingdom of "politicizing" the annual Muslim pilgrimage. Tuesday's statement from the Ministry of Religious Endowments criticized what it...

The Turkish army on Monday arrested three soldiers accused of assaulting Syrian refugees along the Turkish-Syrian border, according to judicial sources. In the incident last Friday, four soldiers allegedly beat four Syrian refugees in Altinozu in the southern province of Hatay who were...

Food access in Syria's battle-torn Raqqa is now at "a critical turning point," aid organisations said Monday, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles. Raqqa has been gripped by fierce fighting for nearly two months and the U.S.-backed Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- In this report, Um Jasem, a Syrian refugee women lives in the Jordanian al-Mafraq camp, tells her suffering story that began with the deadly chemical attack on Eastern Ghouta suburbs on 21 August 2013. Um Jassem who escaped with her seven children to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian student, Alaa Hossam al-Din, was able to get a rate of 16.97 out of 20 in the French baccalauréat (High-school), which is a very good rate. the French press was interested to talk about his experience and superiority, although he came with his family to France...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Once Syria's powerful Islamist group, Ahrar al-Sham movement has appointed new General Commander on Sunday after surprise defeats by former al-Qaeda group last two weeks in northern Syria. Hassan Sofan, former Islamist prisoner who spent 12 years in notorious Saydnaya...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Eqtsad)- Rachid al-Saied, a Syrian pharmacist, lost along with two of his brothers, two large hospitals in eastern Deir Ez Zor province after the regime forces destroyed them after the start of the revolution. He owned the largest share in the hospital, but...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is still holding tens of families from al-Shadadi and Merkada towns in the Qana refugee camp near al-Hasakah Dam amid harsh humanitarian conditions, activists say. Aactivist Mohammed al-Khader said that Qana Camp administration...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Bunyan al-Marsous, the operation room of key armed factions in southern Syria announced the formation of a free police apparatus after the city witnessed a state of security chaos and to restore safety to people returning to Daraa liberated city following regime offensive....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A young man named Mohammed al-Masri who lives in the town of Qitta in southern Daraa province, killed his mother and deformed her body in a horrific manner. According to preliminary information, he was one of the practitioners of witchcraft. A patrol of the regime,...

Four Arab countries boycotting Qatar are ready for dialogue to ease the dispute if Doha agrees to certain demands, Bahrain's foreign minister said on Sunday after a meeting with his counterparts. "The four countries are ready for dialogue with Qatar with the condition that it announces...

Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and jihadist militants on Sunday started exchanging the bodies of fighters as part of a ceasefire deal for the restive Syria-Lebanon border. The truce, announced by the movement and confirmed by Lebanon's General Security agency on Thursday, ended six days...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Sunday have stepped up its aerial campaign on the Embattled eastern Ghouta suburbs despite the one-week-old ceasefire. Civil Defense rescuing group said the town of Ein Tarma has endured to tens of Surface-to-surface missiles that left...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes are underway between the Islamic State and regime army in the eastern countryside of Hama left 13 troops dead, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. National hospital of Salamiya town has received 13 corpses for slain soldiers killed in the battleground of...

On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria. Founded by an Armenian family in 1911, the Baron played host to adventurers, writers, kings, aviators, Bedouin chiefs and presidents...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The number of Syrian refugees wishing to accompany Tahrir al-Sham from Irsal to the north of Syria, reached 6000 refugees including 50 families from the border town of Arsal, spokesman said.  While the number of Syrians wishing to accompany the faction of...