Kurdish fighters wearing the blue eagle insignia of the Asayish security force stopped the taxi entering the Sheikh Maqsoud district in Aleppo, checking papers and searching for contraband. When they waved it on into the Kurdish-controlled district, it stayed inside the city while leaving,...

Syrian government forces are nearing the last major town held by Daesh (ISIS) in Homs province, part of their multi-pronged advance towards the extremist group's strongholds in the east of the country, a military source said on Thursday. The source said combat operations would accelerate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for Southern Front operating in Daraa province refuted reports of a secret visit to Israel and attending peace talks initiative, saying such reports aim to defame armed opposition. Major Issam al-Rayes via phone call said pro-regime news feeds have a clear...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Police chief in rebel-held Aleppo confirmed the start of the training of women cadres police to deal with women and methods of inspection and all that is related to women commensurate with the values and customs of society. Brigadier Adeeb al-Shalaf   told Zaman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s leading Civil Defense group finds a space of time to mend and serve residents in southern Daraa province as the cessation of hostilities agreement went into effect two weeks ago. Russia vowed to Israel to make the agreement a permanent deal to secure the border...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 5000 Syrian refugees to flee the ongoing fighting between Hezbollah and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to the eastern Qalamoun over a deal with Saraya Ahl al-Sham, rebel group operating at the Lebanese-Syrian border, sources old Zaman al-Wasl. Abu al-Joud la-Qalamouni said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Directorate of Education of the opposiiton Interim Government in Damascus suburbs is trying to find effective solutions to the negative effects of school-aged children dropouts which has spread widely throughout the Eastern Ghouta. The director of education in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has withdrawn a group of its elite Fourth Division forces from southern Daraa province on Wednesday due the cessation of hostilities agreement which brokered by Moscow and Washington two weeks ago, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Russia vowed to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 people from the same family were killed on Wednesday when the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes struck the town of Tyiba in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said. The victims included four children, and two women were the last victims of the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighting broke out east of Damascus between rebel and regime forces on Wednesday for the first time since both sides declared a ceasefire at the weekend, a war monitor said, with air strikes also hitting the besieged enclave, leaving a newborn killed. Air strikes...

The barren, rocky hilltops that form Hezbollah's new front line with jihadists at the Syrian-Lebanese border were tough to capture and supply. Hezbollah commander Hajj Abu Ali says the experience could prove useful in future battles. Military jeeps and four-wheel-drive trucks make a...

Fighting broke out east of Damascus between rebel and government forces on Wednesday for the first time since both sides declared a ceasefire at the weekend, a war monitor said, with air strikes also hitting the besieged, rebel-controlled enclave. Air strikes on three towns in East Ghouta...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  About 100 tribesmen fighting under pro-regime militia banner headed Syrian Desert from Qamishli airport on Monday as regime and allied forces wage major offensive against the Islamic State near the Iraqi border, sources said. The Tribal Mobilization, or al-Hashad...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three trucks carrying food rations and medicine entered into embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Tuesday due to the Russian-brokered cessation of hostilities agreement which reached three days ago, local activists and Russian statement said. The Russian task command in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian refugees were killed and dozens arrested when the Lebanese army stormed Wadi al-Nakheel camps in the border town of Arsal on Tuesday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The Hezbollah-controlled army has been waging fierce campaign against Syrian refugees over the...

A senior Kurdish official says the U.S. role in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) militants in Syria's Raqqa must not end with the liberation of the city but continue as a guarantor of its future stability. Ilham Ahmed says the Kurdish-led effort to secure the city after liberation needs U.S....

Syria views a U.S. decision to halt CIA support to rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad as a "start" toward ending the six-year conflict, a government minister told Reuters. "All these steps are the start to solving the Syrian crisis, and without that there is no...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The International Revolutionary People’s Guerilla Forces (IRPGF), Western militia fighting ISIS in Raqqa, has formed a brigade of 'homosexual' fighters to fight against the Islamic State forces in Raqqa.  The militia that fights under the banner of the U.S.-backed...

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said overnight air strikes killed at least eight people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. The deaths were the first civilian casualties in the area - the last major rebel stronghold near Damascus - since a cessation of hostilities was declared...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Faisal Yusef, a member of the General Secretariat of the Kurdish National Council, said that the Kurdish National Council parties worked under the oppression and tyranny of the al-Assad regime and the parties insist on their objectives to achieve...