Syria's warring sides entered a final day of U.N.-backed talks on Friday with little sign of progress towards ending the conflict and with negotiations overshadowed by swelling tensions on the ground. The sixth round of talks in Geneva was the latest effort to bring a political solution to...

( The New Arab )- Sexual violence continues unabated in Syria as a tactic used by the Assad regime and the so-called Islamic State group to terrorise, coerce, and control the civilian population, the United Nations has said in a recent report. The UN Security Council's report on...

A military source on the Syrian government side said on Friday that a U.S. air strike against a Damascus-backed militia the day before hit "one of our military points", without elaborating, state media outlets reported. The air strike late on Thursday killed several people and caused...

By Abdulsalam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Bustan Association (ABA), a pro-regime charity owned and run by Rami Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad’s cousin and Syria's tycoon, has been listed as one of the organisations under sanction for its crimes against Syrian people. ABA was a delivery partner...

Syria Friday condemned a U.S.-led coalition strike on pro-government forces as a "brazen attack" and said it would "not be intimidated" after the surprise assault. U.S.-led warplanes carried out the Thursday strike in the east of the country against a convoy of pro-government forces headed...

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The Syrian regime army has regained full control of two central villages from ISIS after an attack that killed dozens of people, activists said Friday. Troops and allied militiamen retook the Hama province villages of Aqareb and Al-Mabujeh a day after the extremist assault, the Syrian...

( The Guardian )- US jets have attacked a convoy of Iranian-backed militiamen in south-eastern Syria in the first clash between the American military and forces loyal to Tehran since the US military returned to the region almost three years ago. The airstrikes occurred near the Syrian town...

In the first concrete results from talks this week on ending Syria's conflict, the United Nations said Thursday the warring sides had agreed to set up expert committees to discuss "constitutional issues." Representatives of Syria's government and opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC)...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish forces have been banning the indigenous people from returning to their home in territories under their control unless being guaranteed by Kurdish or Arabic personalities, local activists said. The discriminative policy has sparked fears of the...

Syria peace talks hosted by the United Nations in Geneva spawned a new series of meetings on Thursday with no hint of tangible progress towards a deal to end the six-year-old civil war. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura had promised a refreshingly brisk pace of business-like meetings...

 By Urwa al-Sousi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local human rights advocates and activists said Thursday the Syrian regime is transferring detainees of Sednaya military prison near Damascus to unknown destination, days after U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at Sednaya that could be...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Islamic State fighters on Thursday have renewed the attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northwestern Hama province, killing 20 people, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The attack took place 11 miles (17 km) east of al-Salamiya, the strategic town ...

Reporting by Mohamed Omar Sharif (Zaman Al Wasl)- Saja, a Syrian girl from Daraa suffers of Albinism, that characterised with white skin, hair, eyebrows and lashes, and severe sensitivity to sun light. She left her hometown of Daraa 3 years ago and walk in the sun for 4 days to reach to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish PYDmilitia has turned most of the grain silos in Hasaka province into military barracks for its numerous militias or camps to train hundreds of people for money. A local source told Zaman al-Wasl that the PYD militants had turned grain silos in the Alia and...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have seized 350 square km (135 square miles) in the past week, tightening "their noose" on Islamic State in an advance to isolate its base of operations at Raqqa, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said on Wednesday. Some 3,000 to 4,000...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces arrested Wednesday about 1100 people were fleeing Qaboun, north of Damascus despite an agreement to evacuate the opposition-held district reached Sunday. Regime-run TV quoted the Damascus provincial governor as saying that Qaboun "is...

Standing outside the UN's headquarters in Geneva, Amina Kholani chokes back tears as she relives the nightmare of visiting relatives in Saydnaya, one of Syria's most notorious prisons. The infamous centre was back in the spotlight this week after US claims that Damascus built a crematorium...

The Syrian opposition is seeking an extension of the current round of U.N.-hosted peace talks underway in Geneva. Salem Meslet, an opposition spokesman, said on Wednesday it's "not right" that this round is expected to last just four days, and says the opposition plans to ask for more...

( The New Arab )- Pro-Syrian regime media outlets are notorious for writing articles based on baseless conspiracy theories.  They shamelessly deny massacres and pin the "terrorist" label on people and organisations without even considering to verify their claims - or their dangerous...