Russia may deploy its military to police the borders of planned de-escalation zones in Syria within two to three weeks after finalizing an agreement with Turkey and Iran, Russian negotiator Alexander Lavrentyev said on Tuesday. Moscow, Ankara and Tehran are yet to agree the details of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Isis on Tuesday launched attack on the Iran-backed Shiite militia at the border with Iraq northeastern Syria as new wave of displaced people crossed into the Kurdish-led areas, local activist said. The fierce clashes near Tel Sufouk bordr crossing between ISIS and the Popular...

( The Guardian )- When the Syrian uprising began as a series of peaceful protests in 2011 Yahia and Maen Shorbaji helped to coordinate demonstrations. The two brothers lived in a suburb of Damascus with their parents, four other brothers and sister, Bayan. It wasn’t long before the crackdown...

When builder Abu Salem repairs a shell hole in a house in rebel-held southern Syria, he knows it might not be the last job he does on the structure. "There is a chance the buildings will be hit again," he told Reuters. "But in the short term people should be able to take refuge in their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman and child were killed on Tuesday when regime warplanes pounded the city of Douma, northeastern the capital, local activists said. The regime forces stepped up its aerial and ground bombardment on the eastern suburbs of Damascus despite the beginning of fifth round...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Radhwan Mohammed al-Issa, 29, an amputee Syrian refugee, was never visited by Lebanese politicians to present him with a wheelchair, crutches or artificial limbs to help him move around inside al-Nour camp at the outskirts of Arsal on the Syrian-Lebanese border. No Lebanese...

A fire caused by an electrical malfunction killed a girl at a Syrian refugee camp in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley overnight, a medical source said on Tuesday, in the second lethal blaze in a refugee camp in the area three days. On Sunday, a fire destroyed a Syrian refugee camp near Qab Elias,...

United States-backed forces in Syria have entered the most heavily fortified area of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Daesh (ISIS), in what a U.S. official says is a "key milestone" in the war against the extremist group. Success in Raqqa and major advances by U.S.-backed forces in Mosul, a...

A fifth round of talks on ending the six-year Syrian conflict began in Kazakhstan on Tuesday amid key rebel groups boycott, focused on shoring up a plan for safe zones in the war-torn country. "All the delegations that plan to participate in this important stage of the talks have arrived,"...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Liwa al-Quds, pro-regime militia, has mourned seven militants said they had been killed in the suicide bombings attacks that struck Damascus on Sunday. The state-run media said the casualties were 19 civilians but activists assured that the three bombings had targeted...

The Syrian government Monday warned that any new attack by Washington on the war-ravaged country would provoke an even stronger reaction by Damascus and its allies. "We would not be surprised if the United States carried out new attacks against Syria," deputy foreign minister Faisal...

The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in southern Syria until Thursday, including in Quneitra province, where Israel has hit army outposts in recent days, according to a statement carried by Syrian state television. The army general command said the ceasefire took effect...

A top Syrian official says the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons refused to visit key sites linked to a nerve gas attack, casting doubt on the international monitor's credibility. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad dismissed an OPCW report released last week...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 civilians were killed in southern Sweida province when Russian warplanes struck a border village with Jordan, spokesman for a U.S.-backed group said. Saad al-Haj, spokeman for Osoud al-Shariqiya, formed by tribesmen in eastern Qalamoun, said the strikes hit...

( The Guardian )- Abdulmonem Kitouh was on top of the world. It was December 2015 and he had just married the love of his life. He and Rana Damien had met in Aleppo, often in secret, because he was a Muslim and she a Christian. When the war in Syria upended their lives, he moved to Istanbul...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian military helicopter has been destroyed and four soldiers have been killed by the Islamic State in eastern Deir Ezzor province, Russian Sputnik agency said Sunday.   The helicopter that landed in an army base to deliver food rations to regime forces was a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The villages of Kafarya and al-Fu’ah occasionally witness the pro-Assad militias burning the villages’ fruit trees and bulldozing agricultural land in the two towns or at the front lines. Villagers in nearby Binesh, also hear the sound of massive explosions coming from the two...

US-backed fighters pierced jihadist-held Raqqa from the south for the first time on Sunday, crossing the Euphrates River to enter a new part of the Syrian city, a monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces have spent months closing in on the Daesh (ISIS) bastion Raqqa and entered the city's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 officers and soldiers from Homs, Latakia and Hama provinces were killed last June in clashes with the Islamic State and rebels, pro-regime media outlets said. The death toll included 39 officers who mostly killed by ISIS in the Syrian desert, also known as Badiya,...

President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...