As U.S.-backed forces prepare a final assault on Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian bastion Raqqa, displaced civilians are dreaming of spending the end of Ramadan feast back home. The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces militia is expected to begin its assault on the northern Syrian city as early as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes intensified between ISIS and the regime army in eastern Deir Ezzor province on Monday as the extremist group pressed advances in the southern neighborhoods of the city, sources said. The regime warplanes have carried out airstrikes on ISIS positions, killing one...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 pro-regime militants killed and 25 more wounded in clashes with te Islamic State in northwestern Hama province as regime forces backed by allied militias launched major offensive near Salamiya city, medics said Monday. The regime army said it had taken the...

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels fighting ISIS will announce the start date for the final assault on Raqqa city on Tuesday, aiming to oust the militants from their de facto capital in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday. The SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias...

Two Syrian rebels and a war monitor said a Syrian military plane had come down about 50 km east of Damascus on Monday in rebel-held territory near a frontline with government-held land. "We have brought down a Syrian jet in Tel Dakwa area in rural Damasus and we are searching for the pilot,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions on Monday have formed a new operations room in southern Daraa province, aimed at defeating the regime forces and its allied militias from taking control of neighbourhoods in Daraa city. The new operation room was formed in...

The fifth round of Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana may begin next week, Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said on Monday. "Russia informed us that they are going to invite guarantor countries to meet in Astana on June 12-13," Abdrakhmanov told reporters. Abdrakhmanov...

  Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, the Syrian regime forces have been deliberately pounding Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkmen in Latakia province with heavy artillery at the Iftar timing. In a practice it initiated with the start...

The Syrian regime army and allied forces captured the last major town held by Islamic State in Aleppo province on Sunday, state media and a war monitoring group said. State-run news agency SANA said army units made strategic gains in the rural east of the province. The Syrian Observatory...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has stepped up its aerial and ground bombing on the southern province of Daraa, killing two women and 10 rebel fighters as clashes take place in the Old City of Daraa, local activists said.  Regime warplanes have conducted 30 raids on rebel-held...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias said they seized a major dam on the Euphrates river from ISIS on Sunday, their latest gain as they push towards Raqqa city. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, said they captured the Baath Dam in the morning, renaming it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State fighters launched a surprise attack on Saraya Ahl al-Sham and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham near the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Sunday, activists said. ISIS launched the attack from western Qalamoun on two axes: Jurod Qalyat and the amusement park. Saraya Ahl...

By Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian media outlets saidin recent days that a large prisoner exchange operation is expected to take place with Jaish al-Islam in eastern Damascus suburbs before Eid al-Fitr. According to the reports, the exchange is expected to include 4,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iraqi Shi'ite militia backed by Iran said Saturday it pushed Islamic State out of two villages on the border with Syria in Hasaka province, Popular Mobilization said on its website. The territory taken by the Popular Mobilization force on Monday is located near...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels attacked regime bastions in southern Daraa city with home-made missiles on Saturday, a task command said.   Al-Bunyan al-Marsous operation room said rebels fired Omar missile on regime barrack in Sejna neighborhood in the Old City of Daraa as well they...

Syria's President Bashar Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of advances by his forces backed by key ally Russia. In recent months, Assad's troops and allied fighters have retaken territory across the country, including recapturing all of...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman al-Wasl) Noor al-Samah, a young man from Syria, is being held in a Greek prison after he was sentenced to 300 years imprisonment for smuggling and human trafficking. For al-Samah both the sentence and its length are absurd as someone who was arrested without evidence...

A U.S.-backed operation by Syrian forces to capture Islamic State's Syrian "capital" of Raqqa will start in the next "few days", the spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by the...

A fresh round of Syrian peace talks is scheduled for mid-June in the Kazakh capital, Syria's envoy to Moscow said Saturday, with sponsors Russia, Iran and Turkey aiming to bolster safe zones in the country. Ambassador Riyad Haddad told Russia's state-run RIA Novosti agency that Damascus had...

The Syrian army said on Saturday it had seized mountainous territory from Islamic State to the east of the road linking Damascus to Aleppo, helping to secure a critical lifeline for the government that has often come under IS attack. The army also said it had seized 22 villages and farms...