The Syrian military declared a cessation of hostilities on Saturday in the rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta region near the capital, state television reported. Eastern Ghouta, stretching from eastern to northeastern suburbs of Damascus, has long been under opposition control in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah and the regime army advanced against Syrian rebels on Saturday, the second day of an assault to drive them from their last foothold along the Syria-Lebanon border, amid Lebanese reports of high death toll in Hezbollah ranks. The...

Syrian warplanes carried out air strikes on Saturday against Islamic State in an area of countryside east of Raqqa and close to where U.S.-backed forces operate, Syrian state TV reported, citing a military source. The attacks in the town of Maadan and village of Bir al-Sabkhawi, near the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's defence ministry said Saturday that its officials had signed a deal with moderate Syrian rebels at peace talks in Cairo on how a safe zone in Eastern Ghouta will function. "As a result of talks held in Cairo between Russian defence ministry officials and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel groups in southern Daraa province merged Saturday to unify armed and political agenda and what may serve a united Syria, according to statement posted online.  'The National Front for the Liberation of Syria' is the outcome of necessity as the the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Over the past few days, the Syrian regime security services launched large-scale raids and arrest campaigns in the city of al-Tal, north of Damascus. The arrests affect some residents although their situations were legally “settled” according to the reconciliation agreement...

From Palmyra to Paris, Ahmad Joudeh, the Syrian Billy Elliot, is set on showing the real image of his country and erasing the horrors of Daesh (ISIS). The vocalist Sanga, Joudeh’s friend and admirer, invited the dancer to Paris for a special one-off performance, accompanied by a song written...

Wearing chemical suits and gasmasks, Syrian doctors rush to a house where white smoke wafts over a group of people choking and coughing, some calling out for help. It is a training exercise but the scenario is all too real for many of the doctors, who treated victims of a chemical attack...

(Zamana Al Wasl)- Rebel groups and activists on Friday demanded a human corridor for trapped Syrian refugees in Juroud Arsal as the regime army and Hezbollah militia launch major offensive to drive rebels from last foothold on the Syrian-Lebanese border. A Syrian refugee was killed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 regime troops were killed and 3 more were taken hostage when ISIS launched surprise attack on regime bastion near a crossing border with Iraq on Thursday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. 50 more soldiers were also wounded in the ISIS attack on Wadi al-Waer area...

Syrian jihadist fighters and rival Islamist insurgents agreed a ceasefire on Friday to end days of infighting, a statement said, after al Qaeda-linked militants surrounded the other rebels near a Syria-Turkey border crossing. The fighting between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by...

(Zamana Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee was killed when Hezbollah militia and the regime army launched an offensive to drive rebels from Juroud Arsal, their last foothold on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Friday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said.   The Syrian refugee camps in Wadi Hamid that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said the Lebanese army is coordinating with the regime forces over the planned operation to uproot rebels at the border over a pressure by Hezbollah militia on the Lebanese Prime Minister. On Tuesday, Speaking in parliament, Saad al-Hariri said the...

Six Syrian actors battled a fraught U.S. visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress upon American theatergoers the human cost of a war raging halfway round the world. Nothing could be further from the typical summer entertainment in this city of flamboyant wealth...

Syrian rebels said on Thursday a U.S. decision to halt a covert CIA program of military aid would mark a big blow to the Syrian opposition and risked allowing jihadists to tighten their grip over the insurgency. Rebels who have received aid under the CIA program said they had yet to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Syrian refugees in the Lebanese border town of Arsal still have mixed feelings of terror, anticipation and caution after the Lebanese Army’s operation on two refugee camps in the area in which 21 refugees were killed among them a child and 400...

 At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said Thursday. The fighters came under attack by the Army of Islam rebel group as they attempted to advance in the town of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 troops were killed in clashes with the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Hama province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The National Hospital of Salamiya town east of Hama received 13 bodies for troops of the Fifth Corps, including two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Noor al-Din al-Zenki Movement broke away from the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham on Thursday over the ongoing clashes between the former a;-Qaeda group and powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement. In a video statement, the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement said that while it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians wounded on Thursday as infighting continues between Ahrar al-Sham and Tahrir al-Sham Islamist groups in northern Idlib province amid calls to halt the clashes to avoid Turkish intervention. The rival Islamist groups engaged in heavy fighting for the...