(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels pressed new gains on Tuesday, taking a village and two checkpoints northeast of Hama city after a week of surprise offensive allowed them to take remarkable territory in the northern countryside of the central province, activists said. The attack is being led by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce fighting reported between ISIS and Kurdish militias in the southern countryside of Hasaka province as tens of families have been fleeing their villages near al-Shadadi town, activists said Tuesday. Malaz Yousef, Hasaka-based activist, said the Islamic State launched...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20,000 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been mobilized in government-held area in al-Ghab Plain and Latakia province to launch major offensive on the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The ongoing battles northeast Hama have...

 When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Monday killed 6 people, including senior commander from Haya't Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The strike targeted a car carrying Abu Jaber al-Hamwi, senior commander in the powerful alliance that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Students in the ISIS-held neighborhoods of besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus can not escape the radical curriculum of the Islamic State that incites for bloodshed and brutality. ISIS has forced the teaching its curriculum in 2 schools, one on al-Oroba neighbourhood for...

The Tabqa Euphrates dam is not damaged or malfunctioning and engineers inspect its operations fully, a Syrian rebel spokeswoman said on Monday after ISIS militants said it was at risk of collapse. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are fighting to repel ISIS from the dam, 40 km (26 miles)...

Syrian rebels who drove Islamic State from the town of al-Bab in northwest Syria this year discovered an extensive network of tunnels dug by militants as part of their defenses, a tactic that has slowed the military campaign against them. "The tunnels complicated the fighting a lot and...

The health situation is deteriorating in Syria's eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, where 300,000 people are besieged and none of the three hospitals is functioning, the World Health Organization said on Monday in a call for access to deliver aid. "Time is running out for the people...

The northern Syrian city of Raqqa is expected to join a decentralized system of government being set up by Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies once it is freed from ISIS, a leading Kurdish politician told Reuters Monday. Raqqa, ISIS's main urban base of operations in Syria, is the focus...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most Syrians, if not all, look at the Iranians who fight on the Syrian soil with hostility and hatred, considering that Iranians are of one color and class, a type that fights and supports the Syrian regime and supplies it with various means to kill, displace and destroy. But...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham on Monday has downed a helicopter carrying regime troops in the mountainous Jabal al-Krad area in Latakia province, the powerful Islamist group said in statement . The fate of the crew is still unknown, pro-regime media said. The helicopters was shot down near...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias said they temporarily halted military operations near the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates Monday to allow engineers access to carry out work. The Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Arab and Kurdish militias supported by the U.S.-led coalition, has been...

Syrian state TV says another group of rebels with their families are leaving the last opposition-held neighborhood in the central city of Homs under a Russia-brokered deal with the Damascus government. The TV says Monday's round of evacuations from al-Waer neighborhood is the second one...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Syrian regime's ruling party, Al Ba'ath, has graduated of the first batch of the women's Battalion in Hasaka province, activists said. "Khansawat of Syria” to operate in regime-controlled areas of the countryside of Qamishli city. Activist Abdullah al-Qamishlawi reported...

 The Syrian opposition rejects terrorism and is "fed up" with banned militants but they cannot be stopped if Syria continues evicting populations of besieged areas, opposition negotiator Basma Kodmani said on Sunday. Syria's government has always cited the fight against terrorism to...

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they had taken full control of a former regime army airport near the city of Tabqa along the Euphrates River. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior domestic opposition figure said Sunday the delegates in Geneva delivered a draft on the Transitional Governing Authority and its powers to the U.N. Syria envoy. Hassan Abdel Azim, the head of National Coordination Body for Democratic Change affirmed the readiness to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 militants from Ba'ath Battalions have been killed by rebels in central Hama province in the past two days, pro-regime news feeds said. The paramilitary group that formed by regime suffers lack of training and war experience since most of the members are university...

ISIS has warned that the Tabqa dam, which a U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militia is trying to capture from the militant group, is at imminent risk of collapse because of airstrikes and increased water levels. It also said in messages carried on its social media channels that the dam's...