Sheen Ibrahim's track record fighting ultra-hardline militants explains U.S. President Donald Trump's policy of arming Syrian Kurds like her as he seeks to eradicate Islamic State. It also highlights the risks. Taught by her brother to fire an AK-47 at 15 and encouraged by her mother to...

The world's chemical weapons watchdog said the banned nerve agent sarin was used in an attack in northern Syria in April that killed dozens of people, a report from a fact-finding team seen by Reuters on Thursday showed. The report was circulated to members of the Organisation for the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 regime army troops from the coastal city of Latakia in a week of clashes that take place in the desert and in southern Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included General, Colonel, Colonel Lieutenant, 2 Captains and 2 lieutenants, mostly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Criminal Security Branch subordinate to the Ministry of Interior in Latakia announced that a criminal gang, whose members belong to the National Defense militia, were arrested in a break with the Branch’s previous approach to National Defense members’ crimes. ...

United States-backed forces cut off the last escape route for Daesh (ISIS) from Raqqa on Thursday, a monitor said, trapping the besieged extremist inside their de facto Syrian capital.  Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces captured two villages on the southern bank of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Sources from inside Homs city reported that an explosion, which was heard in Homs city and its countryside shortly after midnight, was caused by the regime or one of its militias’ arms depots exploding after it was targeted with missiles or bombed during an air strike. It...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces warned on Thursday of the prospect of fierce confrontation with the Turkish army in northwestern Syria if it attacks SDF areas, and said this would undermine the assault on Islamic State at Raqqa. Naser Haj Mansour, a senior SDF official, told...

( CBS )- A dirt airstrip for the U.S. military and a storage space for over 100 tons of munitions is carved out of the desert in northern Syria. It's an American logistics hub for the fight to retake Raqqa -- the so-called ISIS capital -- that began almost a month ago. Lt. Gen. Stephen...

( Middle East Eye )- Back when Samer al-Kadri ran a publishing house producing children’s books in Damascus, he dreamt of opening a cultural centre, but it was only when he was forced to flee his homeland that he established one. After opening Pages, a successful bookshop and cultural centre...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 8 civilians killed in suspected Russian airstrikes on Sour town in second deadly attack on eastern Deir Ezzor province on Wednesday, after Dabalan massacre that left 50 people dead, local activists said. The strikes on Sour town have left 8 displaced people dead;...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad has appointed his most notorious aide as the head of security and military committee in eastern Deir Ezzor province as regime army wages deadly aerial and ground campaign on the ISIS-held areas that left 115 people killed this week, Iran-run news feeds...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 civilians were killed on Wednesday when Russia`s warplanes pounded the eastern Deir Ezzor province with cluster bombs, local monitoring group. Furat Post said three Russian warplanes had carried the deadly attack on al Dablan town, topping the death toll to...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- The al-Ibrahim tribe in the Syrian Badiya accused Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham of fueling its tribal differences with the al-Boz Layt clan from the al-Hadidin tribe by accepting bribes from al-Hadadin tribe to cover up their struggle with the al-Ibrahim tribe. A commander in Haya’t...

Syria’s former defense minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of President Bashar Assad’s father and predecessor Hafez, died in Paris Tuesday, his son Firas said. He was 85. Tlass, whose other son Manaf was among the most high-profile regime officials to defect during the early days of Syria’s...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made secret visit to a research center run by Tehran for developing long-range missiles and chemical weapons in coastal Tartus province during Eid al-Fiter holiday, well-informed sources said. The move comes as White House...

Three Syrians went on trial in Germany on Tuesday, accused of human trafficking after a boat that they allegedly used to smuggle people to Europe capsized and killed 13 people. The case was heard by a court in the southern German state of Bavaria, the residence of one of the three accused...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime backed by Iran and Shi'ite militias has stepped up its air and artillery bombardments on southern Daraa province despite the three-day Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fiter, leaving a family of 5 killed, local activists said Tuesday. A man and woman and...

US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. "The strikes hit an IS jail in Mayadeen at dawn on Monday, killing 44 prisoners and 15 jihadists," Observatory chief Rami Abdel...

Syria has denied White House allegations that it may be preparing a new chemical attack, insisting again that it has never used such arms. Ali Haidar, the minister for national reconciliation, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the White House statement foreshadowed a "diplomatic...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Among the hundreds of homeless people crowding the streets of Damascus after their living conditions deteriorating due to the war, a homeless woman in her eighties stands out.  She wears a black Jalabiya, dress, and has a black band on her...