(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including children, were killed in Syrian regime air strikes on a school sheltering displaced people in southern Daraa province, local activists said in an initial death toll. The Wednesday's strikes hit Tafas town in the western countryside of Daraa.  ...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-   U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed a family of five members in Raqqa, backing Kurdish –led forces in the offensive to liberate the city from the Islamic State, local monitor said Wednesday. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said the US strikes hit the...

Islamic State militants enslaved Noura Khalaf for three years, dragging her from her small Iraqi village across their territory in Syria. They bought and sold her five times before she was finally freed with her children last week. Khalaf is one of many Yazidi women that Kurdish fighters in...

A group of Syrian doctors based in rebel-held provinces said on Tuesday that aid had dropped markedly over the last two months because donors were losing interest, a factor that will make it harder for them to handle government assaults. Tens of thousands of displaced Syrians have found...

LafargeHolcim, the Swiss-French cement company, faces a French judicial inquiry into allegations it helped finance terrorism in Syria, a scandal that has already led to the exit of its chief executive. The prosecutors’ office in Paris confirmed on Tuesday that three judges would start...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 regime troops have been killed by the Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, local reporter said Tuesday. ISIS has stormed the regime bastion in Tallit al-Sawana northwest of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. 13 forces were killed and dozens...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army has made a sudden advance against Islamic State in the desert area west of Raqqa, a military media unit run by its ally Hezbollah said on Tuesday. Syria's vast deserts have become the main theater of war in recent weeks as rival forces race to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 rebel fighters were killed when Kurdish militias stormed their positions in northern Aleppo province, activists said. Rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had thwarted the suspire attack on Darret Ezza town early Tuesday, retaking checkpoints were...

The United Nations has only limited access to besieged areas of Syria, and humanitarian supplies -- even diapers -- which make it through are often looted by the country’s military, according to a UN coordinator.  Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Kevin Kennedy said the UN was...

A human rights watchdog has urged the U.S.-led coalition battling to capture ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa to make the protection of civilians its priority in the campaign. The New York-based Human Rights Watch says in a statement released on Tuesday that the United States and the local...

A new round of peace talks on Syria in the Kazakh capital of Astana is likely to be held in early July, RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying on Tuesday.   Read More:  Fighting breaks out amongst rebels in city of al Bab...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- A source close to the powerful Jaish al-Islam Islamist group refuted the implications of what was said in a leaked voice recording of Mohamed Alloush, a senior commander and spokesman for Jaish al-Islam.  The voice recording...

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters battling ISIS pushed closer to the Old City in the militant stronghold of Raqqa on Monday, a monitor said. The Kurdish and Arab fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces entered Raqqa for the first time almost a week ago, after months of battle to encircle the...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Eqtsad)- The situation of Syrian refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan seems to be better than that of their peers in the neighboring countries of asylum, although they suffer from the material hardship that has been going on for years after the budget cut by...

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The Syrian regime army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest full control of the city, rebels and residents said on Monday. The intensive raids and bombing strikes...

Turkish-backed rebels fought each other on Sunday in the Syrian town of al Bab in the first bout of rebel fighting since they seized the town this year from Islamic State militants, rebels and witnesses said. It was not clear what triggered the armed clashes between rival rebel groups who...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Raqqa killed 12 people, including 7 family members, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the de facto capital of the radical group, local activists and Amaq news agency said. The strikes hit the neighborhood of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Maarrat al-Numan in northern Idlib province on Sunday went to streets protesting the mounting abuses of Tahrir al-Sham, the powerful Islamist alliance that led by former al-Qaeda branch in Syria.  The protest followed tensions escalated last...

US-backed Syrian fighters seized a second district of Raqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city, as they pursued an offensive against the Islamic State group. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) broke into Raqa earlier this week after announcing the start of a...