Syria's government announced Sunday the country's third largest city Homs- once named the capital of the revolt against President Bashar Assad- had been cleared of armed opposition for the first time in more than five years. The announcement follows the completion of the evacuation of the last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 Ahrar al-Sham fighters have been killed and 30 more wounded in a suicide attack targeted the group meeting in northern dlib province, the military spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The suicde bomber who was riding a mortorbike, blew himself up in the group's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Saraya Ahl al-Sham assured that no evacuation deal reached with Syrian regime and Hezbollah militia to leave a border territory with Lebanon, spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Hussein Abu Ali, spokesman for the moderate rebel group, has refuted reports streamed by...

Syria opposition activists say a suicide attack in rebel-controlled Idlib province killed at least five members of a powerful ultraconservative insurgent group. It was not clear who was behind the Sunday attack. Northern Idlib is an opposition stronghold, but an al-Qaida-linked group has the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 2700 Syrian rebels started leaving the last opposition-held district of Homs city Saturday in the final phase of an evacuation deal that will see Bashar Assad's regime take back the area in the seventh year of the country's war. On Sunday, about 60 buses loaded with 1262...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The town of Qamhana in northwestern Hama province has entered a new stage of "honoring" regime killed fighters. This time the regime does not honor its salin fighters by giving his family a goat or a can of beans or even a clock, but the regime went far as to address its...

 The United States has proposed to Russia a plan for managing an increasingly complex battlefield in Syria's main oil-producing region, where U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic extremists are in conflict with Russian-backed Syrian forces. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford declined to describe...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local workers in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh raised a banner threatening Syrian refugees to not work in the Hezbollah-held city. ''O Syrian , the hand that extends to our livelihood will be cut off." More than 1.2 mn Syrian refugees live in Lebanon under severe...

The United States on Saturday said it hoped Hassan Rouhani, Iran's newly re-elected president, will halt his country's support for "destabilizing forces", end ballistic missile tests and carry out democratic reforms during his second term. "We hope that if Rouhani wanted to change Iran's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and the Islamic State agreed to evacuate remaining fighters from the besieged Yarmouk Camp south of the capital, well-informed source said Saturday. The deal was scheduled to take effect since a year and half but the rival Jaish al-Islam and former al-Qaeda group...

Syrian rebels started leaving the last opposition-held district of Homs city Saturday in the final phase of an evacuation deal that will see President Bashar Assad's government take back the area in the seventh year of the country's war. At least one bus left al-Waer carrying fighters and...

 Turkey's state-run news agency says the country has intensified its training of Syrian opposition fighters. Anadolu Agency reported Saturday that Turkish special forces are training larger Free Syrian Army groups in the use of weapons including mortars, rocket launchers and machine...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl) Members of the Syrian opposition participating in the Geneva 6 Talks said the level of discussion in this round retreated significantly. Sources pointed out that the negotiating atmosphere is no longer at the level of the Syrian crisis. In statements to...

The United States said on Friday it believed forces in a convoy targeted by U.S. military aircraft in southern Syria on Thursday were Iranian-directed, in a possible sign of increased tension between Washington and Tehran in the Syrian war. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters at the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanese town of Arsal went to streets on Friday calling for the release of their relatives in the Lebanese prisons as hunger strike enters the fifth day in the notorious Roumieh prison. The Syrian refugees have joined a public Lebanese demand of...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)-  How can you make life out of the killing machine and its tools? Just follow what young people from the Jaydour area in the northern West Bank village of Daraa did when they turned the military reconnaissance battalion which was bombing, killing and arresting them into...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took Friday three villages from the Islamic State east of Raqaa city after heavy clashes with  the radical group, activists said. Two villages left east of al-Balikh River under ISIS control. Its fall means all eastern...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The last batch of Waer neighborhood’s evacuees to leave the last rebel stronghold in Homs city on Saturday, heading northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, as Russia's military police entered al-Waer Friday due to an evacuation deal reached in April, local reporter said....

A pro-regime convoy that was struck by U.S.-led warplanes inside Syria this week likely was directed by Iran, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday. The strike on the convoy heading toward a coalition garrison near the Jordanian border was "necessitated by offensive movement with offensive...

Syrian man has been convicted in Germany of membership in a terrorist organization for serving in ISIS in his homeland and later helping plan an attack in Berlin that was never carried out. Twenty-year-old Shaas al-Mohammad was sentenced under youth guidelines to five years in prison on...