By Mark Townsend ( The Guardian )- Syria’s Kurds have revealed plans to redraw the northern part of the country by linking the Kurdish region of Rojava with the Mediterranean Sea, in a move that will infuriate neighbouring Turkey. In a further sign of growing Kurdish confidence in...

Fighting between Syrian rebel and government forces eased on Saturday as a Russian-led effort to shore up a ceasefire took effect, although battles continued on important frontlines near Hama and Damascus, rebels and a war monitor said. The deal to create "de-escalation" zones in the major...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 250 Syrian women, Kurds and Arabs, have joined the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in Hasaka province, activists said. The first batch of female fighters, who operate under the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), have received an extensive training by the the Hasaka-based...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee woman died at the entrance of a Islamic Charity hospital in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli after denying access to Emergency department. Tripoli News network, well-spread Facebook page, reported that the victim’s son Ali Antouz had reported bringing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The military police forces search and arrest young men from streets of Latakia to send them for mandatory conscription and military reserve service. Latakia News, pro-regime Facebook page, mentioned that patrols of the military police forces had arrested 17 young men by early...

Syrian regime forces and rebels clashed in the northwestern province of Hama on Friday shortly after a Russian-led deal to establish de-escalation zones took effect, a monitor and a rebel official said. Fighter jets fired at the rebel-held village of al-Zalakiyat and nearby positions in the...

A week of infighting killed nearly 169 people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Syria's capital Damascus before an uneasy returned Friday, activists said. The clashes erupted on April 28 between the powerful Army of Islam faction and the former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The eighth batch of al-Waer neighborhood’s evacuees on Friday left the last rebel stronghold in Homs city, heading Jarablus town at the Turkish border due to an evacuation deal forced, till now, 13300 people to leave Homs in weekly batches, local reporter said. Thirty buses...

A de-escalation agreement in Syria will come into force from midnight tonight but Russia's air force will continue strikes against Islamic State elsewhere in the country, Russian news agencies cited the Defence Ministry as saying on Friday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy water has flooded half of a town in Raqqa province as they are working to prevent the flood from the northern part of the village (200 houses) towards the southern part using dust mounds installed on Raqqa countryside. The source said that the total area of the town and...

 Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday signed an agreement on setting up four safe zones in Syria that the United Nations described as a promising step to wind down the brutal six-year war. The United States however gave an extremely cautious welcome, citing concerns over Iran's role as a...

 By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- From the al-Nusra Front to Christianity, so did the case of a young Syrian identified himself as Hassan Abu Hamza became globalized through various media outlets circulating his news especially as the young man directed the story of his conversion to...

Russia, Turkey and Iran signed on Thursday a memorandum on creating safe zones in Syria, while the delegation of the armed Syrian opposition walked out and shouted angrily after a new round of peace talks held in the Kazakh capital Astana. Russia, Turkey and Iran act as guarantors of the...

( The Guardian )- The government is considering holding a vote to expand military action in Syria if the Conservatives win a big enough majority in the general election. Theresa May is believed to want Commons backing in order to have the freedom to join the US in airstrikes against the forces...

The Syrian armed opposition will return Thursday to the talks on settling the Syrian conflict which are being held in the Kazakh capital Astana, RIA news agency quoted a source close to the negotiations as saying. A diplomatic source told Reuters in Astana that the rebel delegation had not...

By Mansour al-Omari ( The New Arab )- From the very first demonstration against the Syrian government in 2011, until the most recent Khan Sheikhun chemical attack in 2017, the narrative of these incidents pushed by Syrian state media has always been very different to the facts on ground, if...

Syrian rebels Wednesday said they were suspending their participation as a latest round of peace talks began in Kazakhstan, with the warring sides set to discuss a plan to create safe zones. "The rebel delegation is suspending the meetings because of the violent air strikes on civilians. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The number of the Turkish-trained local police in the border town of Azaz has reached 1600 members who work to maintain security and halt abuses. A source who spoke to Zaman Al Wasl on condition of anonymity, said: “there are many police stations controlled by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ceased admissions to governmental and local schools for Syrian and Yemeni students who entered the Kingdom as visitor or family member, Syria residents said. The Ministry of Education and Teaching in Saudi Arabia had three months ago issued a...

A car bomb killed at least five people and wounded several others in a rebel-held town in northern Syria on Wednesday in an attack Syria's political opposition said targeted its officials and local headquarters. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also put the death toll...