(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 70 Syrian refugee families in northern Lebanon hve founded nowhere to go after revoking land rent contract and license they were granted for building a camp for them. The 70 families have been displaced from Idlib and rented a land in the town of Halaba in Akkar...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian university students and their teachers who were detained by the Turkish Immigration Department in southern city of Gaziantep has started a hunger strike a week ago , demanding speedy procedures. A Syrian media source told Zaman al-Wasl that the Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Jaish al-Islam group said no orders give to open fire on protests in the Eastern Ghouta as death toll of the 4-day fighting with rival Islamist group topped 120, according to Zaman’s reporter. Local activists surfaced on social media footage showing...

( The Guardian )- In the aftermath of Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish positions in north-east Syria last week, US troops escorted an ageing militant through an angry crowd to inspect the damage. As a senior leader of the Kurdish militant organisation the PKK, Abdi Ferhad Şahin, known as Şahin...

( The Guardian )- Near Aleppo’s ancient citadel, the scent of rose and jasmine rises from the rubble of a half-destroyed shop covered in bullet holes. Months ago it was a battleground, but for years before that it was a perfumery, and war has not changed its smell. For centuries Aleppo’s...

 (Zaman Al Wasl) A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the extremist bastion of Raqqa in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces now control at least 40 percent of the town of Tabqa, and more than half of its...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hama Governorate Council, in statement issued Saturday, said  the northern countryside said is a stricken area, calling on local and the International community to stand with the displaced people who endured to brutal and deadly aerial campaign for over 60 days. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The seventh batch of al-Waer neighborhood’s evacuees on Sunday left the last rebel stronghold in Homs city, heading northern Idlib province due to an evacuation deal forced at least 12200 people to leave Homs in weekly batches, local reporter said. The buses loaded with 2200...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of al-Shadadi town in northeastern Hasaka province demanded Sunday that the former ISIS stronghold be handed over to a police force and disarmed after an Arab youth was killed by gunmen from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), creating a state of tension in the...

( The New Arab )- Five extended comic strips by different artists have been published as part of a project to give the wider public an insight into the severe and unforgiving lives of Syrian refugees living across Lebanon. "Meantime", the name given to the collection by French NGO...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 workers in Syria’s leaing rescuing group have been killed Sunday in Russian air strikes hit Kafr Zeita town in northwestern Hama province, activists said. The 8 volunteers in the White Helmets were killed when Russian targeted their center with vacuum, cluster and...

A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the extremist bastion of Raqqa in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces now control at least 40 percent of the town of Tabqa, and more than half of its heart, the Old City,...

( The New Arab )- Zouzfana, a Syrian baby girl, was born on Sunday night along the Algerian-Moroccan border near Mount Tagla in cruel weather conditions, with temperatures nigh on 40 degrees Celsius. The mother went into a sudden labour immediately after she was brought to the border region....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 8000 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad from coastal Tartus province have been killed in six years of war, a new death toll revealed by the governorate of main militant stronghold in Syria. At least 7986 troops and allied militants killed, 975 missing, 5450...

 Syria's military says its troops and allied fighters have repelled an attack by ISIS on a government-held area south of Aleppo province. The Saturday attack took place in Khanasser, southeast Aleppo – a strategic region that links Aleppo with central and western Syria. The military...

Fighting between rebel groups in the biggest insurgent stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus entered a second day Saturday, while government forces pressed an offensive against the besieged enclave, activists said. The clashes broke out in part of the densely-populated rural area east...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mustafa al-Sabbagh, the former National Coalition Secretary-General said that opposition’s absence from international interest is due to the lack of regional and international desire to change the regime, and the opposition’s failure to provide...

A commander of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Friday U.S. forces would begin monitoring the situation along the Syria-Turkey frontier after cross-border fire between the Turkish military and YPG this week. The monitoring had not yet begun, but the forces would report to senior U.S....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Islam accused Jabhat Fateh al-Sham of kidnapping its reinforcements while it were heading to Qaboun district northeast of Damascus, such allegation sparked fierce fighting left at least 55 fighters on Friday. Yaser  Quwatli, head of the Islam Army’s Political...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dr. Imad Barq, the Minister of Education in the opposition's interim government, reveals in an interview with Zaman al-Wasl how the education proccess is rolling on in rebel-held areas and gives more highlights over the accreditation of certificates,...