The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since 2014 after driving out extremits, a monitor said on Friday. Since troops recaptured Palmyra from ISIS in March, the UNESCO World Heritage site had been accessible via Syria's third...

Six operations have failed to cure the constant pain that Ismael Moustafa suffers since he was wounded in an airstrike on his village in Syria three years ago. The 28-year-old former construction worker hobbled on crutches after the shrapnel tore through his right hip and leg, with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Lebanese soldiers on Friday were wounded near Arsal town at the Syrian border when a wanted jihadist blew his explosive belt up during the army raid, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Bilal al-Braidi had been accused of attacking the Lebanese army in Ras Baalbek...

A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen early Friday killed at least 80 relatives of ISIS fighters, activists told AFP. "The toll includes 33 children. They were families seeking refuge in the town's municipal building," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the...

To escape the nightmare of life in their besieged hometown near Syria's capital, 13 young girls sought refuge in a fairytale performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". The all-girl cast spent months memorising lines from the classic Brothers Grimm fable before performing in front of a...

Reporting by Shams ed-Din Matoun (Eqtsad)- Idlib province is known for its agriculture; it is famous for rainfed crops that rely heavily on rainwater such as lentils, cumin, chickpeas, etc. but due to drought and lack of rainfall in recent years, irrigation has become a major problem...

(Zaman al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led militias are just two miles far from the first neighborhoods of Raqqa from the eastern side, such an advance followed a promise on Thursday that no harm would come to ISIS fighters in Raqqa who turned themselves in by the end of the month....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Suspected Iraqi airstrikes killed 4 Syrians in ISIS-held city of al-Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The strikes that hit the main marketplace of the city have also left destruction, according to activist Firas Allawi. On Wednesday, 11...

The Syrian regime army said it had retaken a swathe of territory from ISIS in southern Syria Thursday in a rapid advance near areas held by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels at the border with Jordan and Iraq. The Syrian regime said earlier in May that it was a priority to recapture the sparsely...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt from an undisclosed special source that the regime air force has re-equipped four MiG-23 ML aircrafts that were previously stockpiled as unsuitable for use in the recent period. Russia is the regime’s key strategic ally, but the age of the regime’s...

  A U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led militias promised Thursday that no harm would come to ISIS fighters in Raqqa who turned themselves in by the end of the month, calling on them to lay down their arms ahead of an expected assault on the city. The Syrian Democratic Forces, which groups...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Osama al-Habali, “the Heart of Khaldiya” died in Sednaya prison last Tuesday after 5 years in detention. Osama was one of the Syrian revolution’s icons, he was known as “The Heart of Khaldiya”, he was injured by shrapnel in his neck after a indiscriminate...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A suicide bomber blew himself up in the border Azaz town, leaving five civilians wounded, local police told Zaman la-Wasl on Wednesday. The attack was targeting a Free Syrian Army commander in the strategic town at the border with Turkey. The former ISIS-held town has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 people were killed in in Regime airstrikes on ISIS-held areas in the eastern Deir  Ezzor province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. 11 civilians, including women and children, were killed in al-Mayadeen city and 3 more people were killed in Muhaimdiya...

At least 16 civilians were killed in bombing raids early Wednesday by the US-led coalition near ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqqa, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the toll included a woman and her five children, as well as three couples. "The coalition strikes hit...

The Syrian army said on Wednesday it had killed Islamic State's military commander in Syria during operations in the north of the country, where the Russian-backed government forces are seizing more territory back from the jihadist group. If confirmed, this would represent a major blow...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ro’aa al-Hariri, 13-year-old, a Syrian girl living in Turkey managed to establish a free cultural library in the East Ghouta. The initiative came after Ro’aa provided sent many books to refugee camps in Syria and elsewhere to enable Syrian children to develop their reading...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- On the evening of Sunday,  the regime focused its operations in the al-Waer neighborhood in the  central city Homs, announcing its control of the last rebel strongholds in the city of Homs, through a deal whose key contributor was Major-general...

A team from the international chemical weapons watchdog found exposure "to sarin or a sarin-like substance" in samples from an April 4 attack in northern Syria that killed over 90 people and now wants to visit the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday....

(Zaman al-Wasl) In Roumieh Prison in the Lebanese capital Beirut Syrian detainee Abdul Rahman al-Attar nicknamed Abu Mohammed al-Mughawir has been detained for more than two years without trial or a clear charge according to activists. Al-Attar, a former commander of the al-Maghawir Brigade...