Some 250 residents of Syria's Raqqa province are the latest batch to graduate from a brief U.S. training course. They are part of an internal security force to hold and secure areas as they are captured from Daesh (ISIS) militants. The graduation ceremony Thursday in the desert town of Ain...

She was trafficked into Raqa as a sex slave by the Islamic State group but managed to escape. Now Yazidi fighter Heza is back to avenge the horrors she and thousands of others suffered. Her hair tucked under a tightly wrapped forest green shawl embroidered with flowers, Heza says battling IS...

An attack on Lebanese troops raiding a Syrian refugee camp has stirred violent debate and polarised opinions, with rising calls to repatriate refugees but also warnings against racist rhetoric. The uptick in pressure comes after Lebanese soldiers were attacked as they stormed two refugee...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed rebel factions may join Ahrar al-Sham in its fight against the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria as fierce clashes take place in northern Idlib province since Tuesday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield, an alliance of moderate...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many international media outlets have circulated news of Zaman al-Wasl’s exclusive reports about the top-secret Wadi Jehanam (Valley of Hell) and the Iranian and Russian activities in the area. Moscow was incited by the reports and responded by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb struck Ahrar al-Sham's base in Armanaz town in Idlib province, killing five people, including three fighters, as clashes still ongoing between the Islamist Movement and Tahrir al-Sham group, medics and commander told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. Omar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For the first time, hundreds of residents of Saraqib city participated in elections to vote for a local council in the opposition governed areas of rural Idlib on Tuesday.  Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Mohammad Musfra, the director of Public Relations in the former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 15 family members, including 11 children, were escaping heavy aerial bombing in Raqqa province, local activists said Wednesday. Two families, mostly women and children, from Zour Shammar village were the latest victim of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes are still ongoing between Ahrar al-Sham and Tahrir al-Sham, the main Islamist groups in Idlib for the second day ending 2-day-old truce amid fears of widespread violence in the whole northern province. The fight extended to 14 towns and villages in the...

(Eqtsad) Working and earning a living online is still relatively weaker in the Arab world compared to the West, but with the emergence of an Arab generation that is technologically savvy, many have become more experienced and willing to experiment with online initiatives. Young Syrian are among...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes erupted on Tuesday between the two main Islamist groups in Idlib, less than 48 hours of fragile truce amid fears of widespread violence in the northern province. A woman was killed and dozen were wounded on Tuesday when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A UNDP charity partner released statistics indicating that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces and the Global Coalition forces destroyed tens of houses in the village of al-Badia in Jabal Abdul Aziz area, west of Hasaka. The news comes ahead of plans to rebuild the village...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 36 regime troops, including 6 officers, from Tartus province in the first half of July by rebels and Islamic State, regime news feeds said. Most of regime deaths were Alawites, the Assad family's sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, since the the Syrian war turned...

A suicide car bomber killed four people at a checkpoint in a Kurdish-controlled area of northeastern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A Kurdish official confirmed an attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish Kurdish internal security force, but had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four members of Asayish, Kurdish Police force, were killed on Monday when a car bomb set off near their base in Hasaka province, residents and Asayish said. A Kurdish official confirmed to Reuters that the attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish but had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine regime troops killed and wounded in the ongoing clashes with the Islamic State in the Syrian desert, pro-regime news feeds said Monday. The casualties included General Brigadier as heavy clashes take place near al-Sukhna town, 220 km (150 miles) east of central...

Syrian government forces have swept across territory south of the Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Raqqa, capturing a string of villages and oilfields from the militants, state media said Monday. The landscape south of Raqqa city strategically borders several provinces: Aleppo to the west, Homs to...

Israeli Pime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he opposes the deal brokered by the United States and Russia that led to an open-ended ceasefire in southern Syria, saying it does not sufficiently address Iranian military ambitions in the area. Placing himself at odds with US...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- To support people with special needs and those suffering from partial-paralysis and quadriplegia, caused by the al-Assad regime’s bombing and explosive barrels, a teacher and a police officer who dissented from the al-Assad regime created a system to facilitate the movement...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham reached a deal to end a week of tensions that raised fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Press officers of former al Qaeda branch told Zaman al-Wasl. Imad el-Din Mujahed said both warring parties...