(Eqtsad)- The moment she saw her name on the district representative’s list of families set to receive a food basket, her eyes light up with joy as if she had won a kilogram of gold. Um Hassan, from al-Ghouta who is taking care of her three orphaned grandchildren, is one such woman who was very...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The committee assigned to negotiate on behalf of the Syrian resistance controlled cities and towns of the eastern region of Qalamoun reached a “tentative agreement” with the al-Assad regime forces at a meeting held Sunday evening under the auspices of Russia. Speaking...

While thousands of people scramble to flee Syria’s battle-torn Raqqa, members of the Sheikh Wais family bravely headed back in to recover the bodies of loved ones killed there. Dodging shelling, airstrikes and snipers, the four Syrian Kurds finally made it back into the western district of...

Syrian state media say shells have hit the Russian embassy in Damascus causing material damage. State news agency SANA said two shells were fired at the Russian embassy Sunday, one hitting the compound while the other fell nearby. Syrian rebels in the suburbs of the capital have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 8 people on Sunday in eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping the death toll to 26 in less than 24 hours, activists said. The strikes hit a commercial zone in al-Mayadeen city after a day of deadly strikes left 8 family members dead,...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Al-Raqqah once deeply connected to the name al-Rashid for centuries, is now only known as ‘the capital of the Islamic State’.  For this privilege alone, the city and all its civilians, according to the Islamic State, must pay the heavy price of death and displacement...

Syrian state television reported a "terrorist explosion" north of the government-held coastal city of Latakia on Sunday and cited reports of casualties. The blast took place in Ras Shamra, a town about 12 km (7 miles) north of the city, state television said. It gave no further details....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A child girl was killed and several people were wounded Sunday in regime missile attack on Jisr al-Shughour town in Idlib province, local media center said. Idlib Media Center said regime forces launched the rebel-held town And neighboring villages early...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 Shiite militants killed by the Islamic State as fierce fighting takes place in Syrian desert east of of Homs province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The radical group launched counter attack on Iran-backed al-Ridha militia in Palmyra desert, also known...

At least 10 people have been killed by air strikes in the opposition-held Damascus suburb of Ein Tarma, according to a UK-based monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said at least two children were among those killed in the air strikes on Friday. The assault...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 18 people killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes pounded the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, media activist told Zaman al-Wasl. 10 civilians were killed and 13 more were wounded in regime and Russia’s airstrikes on al-Salihiya town in the northern...

The Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air strikes seized a string of oil wells in southwest Raqqa province on Saturday, as retreating Islamic State militants battle to defend their remaining territory in the country. State-owned Ikhbariyah television quoted a military source as saying the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tawfiq Mohammed al-Ghawi’s, 23, body arrived at the al-Rahma hospital in the Lebanese town of Arsal on Thursday evening, two weeks after his arrest. Tawfiq, from the town of al-Qarah in western al-Qalamoun, worked as a tank driver transporting water and selling it among the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has been recruiting youth and former rebel fighters in the capital's reconciled districts as new militia has been formed to fight ISIS in eastern Qalamoun, activists said. Qalamoun Shield is a paramilitary group backed and financed by the military...

 Clashes have broken out in northwestern Syria between two of the most powerful insurgent groups raising fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib. The ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham said in a statement Saturday that the al-Qaida-linked Levant Liberation...

( The Guardian )- When they still lived back home in Derik, northern Syria, Silva Hassan Namo and her family would gather each evening around the television to watch the latest episodes of their favourite Mexican telenovelas. Even after civil war forced them to flee to Iraq, the family would...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian engineer Mohammed Aboush and a number of his colleagues launched, “The Failure of the coup in Turkey,” game, through Google's store on the occasion of the first anniversary of the coup against the legitimate government in Turkey. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Aboush...

They left their homes to escape the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and now they are going back. Worn out from months of living in tents, about 150 Syrian families decided this week to return to the city of Homs – even if it meant going back to a life under Assad’s rule. Their...

In four years, Mohammad al-Hassan only heard his son’s voice once: when the young Syrian soldier called a radio show to send regards to his family trapped in militant bastion Raqqa. The 62-year-old and his wife Nazira, who never left their hometown in northern Syria during years of Daesh (ISIS)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including a child, wounded late on Friday in explosive device attack in the northern city of Hasaka, local activists said. The attack took place when an ISIS explosive device detonated near a car affiliated to the Kurdish PYD militia in Gweiran...