Al-Qaeda's leader has urged his followers and all militants in Syria to unite ranks and prepare for protracted war. Ayman al-Zawahri told the extremists to remain steadfast and change tactics to a guerrilla war. His remarks came in an audio message released on Monday by al-Qaeda's media arm...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes stepped up its aerial bombing on the northern countryside of Homs province, killing 5 civilians, local reporter said on Monday. The airstrikes have targeted towns of Teldo, Kafrlaha, Tel Zahab and al-Tybah. Two women were among the casualties. In...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Samir Nashar, former member of the National Coalition, said the U.S. policy towards the Syrian opposition has made fundamental change after the deadly chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on April 4. In a statement to Zaman al-Wasl, Nashar said that the...

Cement group LafargeHolcim says its chief executive officer is resigning, weeks after the multinational acknowledged that its branch in northern Syria had struck deals with armed groups so that it could keep business there running. The resignation of Eric Olsen is effective July 15, the...

Britain's former ambassador to Syria who defended President Bashar al-Assad had already accepted a senior position in a lobby group run by the dictator's father-in-law, The Telegraph reported. Peter Ford had sparked outrage earlier this month when he claimed in a BBC interview that Assad would...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Sunday launched counterattack on the U.S.-led forces near Tabqa city, taking advantage of a sand storm sweeping the northeastern province of Raqqa. ISIS fighters attacked bastions of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the villages of Ayed al-Kabir,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl0 At least 16 officers and soldiers from from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha in coastal Latakia province have been killed in April, local activists said. The death toll included 8 officers who were killed throughout Syria. Qardaha Newspaper has mourned 40...

By Elias Mohamed (Zaman al-Wasl) Ayman Saif came to the Yemeni capital Sana'a ten years ago to invest in the country and trade in Syrian products. Over time, he made enough capital to open a Damascene sweets and spice factory. He also became an agent for some Syrian food products and food...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel have withdrawn from Helfaya town in northwestern Hama province after cutting off the supply routes by regime forces and allied Shiite militias, activists told Zaman a-Wasl Sunday. The week-long heavy clashes in the northern countryside ended with the fall of...

An Israeli attack on a camp for pro-regime forces killed three fighters near the Golan Heights on Sunday, an official from the forces said. The official told AFP that two fighters were also wounded in the attack on the Al-Fawwar camp near Quneitra in southwestern Syria, adding that it was...

(The Daily Star)- Lebanese Army units deployed heavily in the northeast Lebanon town of Hermel and surrounding areas early Sunday morning in search of fugitives, arms and contraband, state media said. In addition to the fixed checkpoints in the town, temporary barricades were set up in the...

Morocco has accused Algeria of expelling 55 Syrian migrants across the countries' shared border, criticising it for "inhumane behaviour" in the latest row between the North African rivals. The migrants were sent across the frontier near the desert town of Figuig, Morocco's interior ministry...

An opposition war monitor and media platform say airstrikes have knocked out a medical center in Syria's rebel-held northern province. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Saturday's airstrikes seriously damaged the medical center in Abdin village in Idlib, putting it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday have engaged in fierce fighting with  regime forces and allied militias in Hama province as regime seeks to expand its territory along the strategic western highway between Damascus and Aleppo. The regime forces that advanced into the strategic...

( Middle East Eye )- At the recent Syria conference which drew world leaders to Brussels to discuss how to support the refugees in the country, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri – on his first official European tour during his third stint as prime minister - discussed how they had negatively...

(Zaman Al Wasl) “Why are you holding us accountable for killing civilians in Syria, and you are killing them in Mosul? We will do the same as you,” said the regime Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to a low-ranking US official. The bluntness of al-Moallem’s comment is not strange as he said at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Powerful Kurdish PYD militia has carried out major conscription campaign in Hasaka province as the U.S.-allied group is mobilizing troops to expel ISIS from last pockets in northern Syria, local activists said. Hundreds of young men have been transferring to conscription...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group said the Syrian opposition had not involved in direct talks with Iran-allied Shiite militias over the Qatari hunting party who was kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 and released on Friday. Imad el-Din Mujahed said the...

( The Guardian )- Syrian families are naming their children Putin as a mark of gratitude for the Russian president’s support for his Syrian counterpart in the six-year war, a government official has said. The Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riyad Haddad, said Bashar al-Assad had also made...

Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kasab, the once first-ever destination for tourists in Syrian coast  has turned into a deserted area since most of residents fled to Turkey after regime capture in 2014. The Turkish town of Yayladagi is the closest town to Kasab, almost hundreds of...