A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling ISIS in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday. U.S. Central Command said coalition aircraft were given the wrong coordinates by their partner forces, the predominantly-Kurdish...

 Syrian authorities – "abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth" – still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday. The strong comments by Kenneth D. Ward, the American ambassador to the...

( The Guardian )- One afternoon, I managed to sneak away to see the Krak des Chevaliers. This medieval castle used to be a big tourist destination. I’d met some people in Jordan a couple of years ago who told me that it was absolutely stunning.  We were delivering sheep to farmers...

( Independent )- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated that his government had nothing to do with the chemical gas incident in a rebel-held village last week that killed more than 80 people. Allegations that his forces had deliberately poisoned civilians were ''100 per cent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes have renewed bombing on Daraa and Idlib provinces, using Napalm and Phosphorus bombs, local activists and media center said Thursday. At least 8 people were wounded overnight in Napalm bombs attack targeted the town of Jisr al-Shughour in the western...

The Syrian army said that an airstrike late Wednesday by the U.S.-led coalition hit poison gas supplies belonging to ISIS, releasing a toxic substance that killed "hundreds including many civilians." The incident in the eastern Deir al-Zor province proved that ISIS and al Qaeda-linked...

 U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State in Syria launched a new phase of their offensive on Thursday, a statement said, but they have not yet begun to attack the militant group's stronghold of Raqqa city in an apparent delay in the operation. The multi-phased campaign by the Syrian...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The  Kurdish Democratic Union militia handed its checkpoints over to the Assyrian fighters in the villages of Khabur area in Hasaka province, such a step towards the Assyrian self-Administration. According to Assyrian sources, the Democratic Union Party handed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is unable to supply sufficient quantities of bread and foodstuffs in eastern Deir Ez Zor city, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Jalal al-Hamd, the director of the Justice Observatory for Life in Deir Ez Zor,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists in northeastern Damascus district of Barzeh  accused the local aid office of practicing a policy of starving the neighborhood’s remaining residents to force them to accept a “reconciliation” with the regime. ,Such a reconciliation would involve the...

 Russia blocked a Western effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week's deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident. It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old...

( The Wall Street Journal )- The suspected sarin gas attack in Syria last week revealed one of the worst-kept secrets in international diplomacy: A 2013 deal brokered by Russia and the U.S. failed to cripple the Assad regime’s ability to make or use chemical weapons. International...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei called on wealthy Gulf Arab states to take in more Syrians displaced by six years of civil war, saying the surge of refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East was a "test for humanity." Ai, often described as China's most high-profile artist and dissident, has won...

Syria's government and rebels exchanged some 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday. Hakim Baghdadi, a member of the relief committee for al-Foua and Kfarya, two...

  Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump, as Moscow delivered an unusually hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria. Any hope in Russia that the Trump administration would...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl) The son and brother of one of the most important officials responsible for the development of chemical weapons for the Syrian regime have British citizenship. This information came to light to add to Britain’s already existent record of scandals including...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl learnt that an undeclared agreement was recently activated between the al-Assad regime and the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham based on which, Tahrir al-Sham members and their families along with any besieged families who wish will leave the Yarmouk refugee camp to...

Preparations began on Tuesday to move people out of two besieged pro-government Syrian towns and two opposition-held ones in a deal between the warring sides, a pro-government commander and a war monitoring group said. The Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya in the northwestern province of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed rebel-held areas in Latakia province, killing two people, including a child, activists said Tuesday. 8 more people were wounded in Habboushiya village that overlooks on the western countryside of Idlib province where regime forces seek to capture...

Hundreds of Syrian students gathered on Tuesday outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus to protest last week's U.S. strike on a government air base. Demonstrators waved the two-star flag of the Syrian government and pictures of President Bashar Assad outside the U.N.'s office in...