A Kurdish and Arab Syrian militia backed by the United States has captured the town of Karama as it prepares for an assault on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa that it expects to take place in early April, it said on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has trapped Raqqa in a shrinking...

A leading Syrian opposition group is calling on the U.S.-led coalition to stop targeting residential areas in and around Raqqa, ISIS's de facto capital. The Syrian National Coalition says it is "increasingly concerned" about civilian casualties in the campaign against the extremist group....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A doctor and wounded man were killed Saturday when regime warplanes dropped a chlorine-loaded barrel bomb on Latamaneh hospital in central Hama province, activists and local monitor said. "The hospital is out of service now," Hama Health Directorate said in statement due...

A medical relief advocacy groups says over 100 hospitals in Syria were hit by Syrian or Russian airstrikes last year, urging the "fortification" of medical facilities such as by adding reinforced concrete or blast-resistant windows. In a 90-page report released Saturday, the International...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has prevented medication supplies to the National Hospital of Hasaka after controlling it by the Democratic Union Party which invested it to obtain money from patients for the service it provided to them. Sources close to Hasaka Governor, Jayez al-Moosa reported...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The municipality of the Lebanese Kherbit Dawood town in Akkar province has issued an order to close all camps and collections of Syrians in the town's boundaries within 3 months. A order to closing all camps and collections of Syrians in Kherbit Dawood town was faced with...

Once home to a family of Syrian refugees, a U.N. tent has found a new life as a dress still bearing the marks and stains of its past. "Dress for Our Time," the brainchild of fashion designer Helen Storey, has turned a discarded tent from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan into a hooded dress...

At least 17 civilians including women and children were killed Saturday in a Syrian regime airstrike east of the capital Damascus, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official. The source, who wished to remain anonymous due to security concerns, said the attack, which targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people, including 5 family members, were killed Saturday in renewed airstrikes on the town of Khan Sheikhoun to increase the death toll to 24 in a day of bombing on Idlib province. Rescuing Civil Defense group said 5 family members, including two children, and three...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three civilians have been killed in car bomb attack rocked the town of Azaz at the Turkish border, local reporter said Saturday. The car was parked near the main bus station of the strategic town in the northern countryside of Aleppo province. Ten more people were...

 Regime counters resistance and tighten noose on civilians in Hama (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has pumped the water of Rastan Dam into the Orontes River in the northern countryside of Homs city, to increase the water level of the river, such a step may cut off the supply route f...

Syria's army and its allies retook a village near Hama Saturday, a Syrian military source said, as the government tries to turn back a major insurgent offensive, but bitter fighting continued, a war activist said. President Bashar Assad and his allies, Russia, Iran and Shi'ite fighters from...

At least 16 people died after a Friday night air strike on a prison in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province including both prisoners and staff, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Saturday. Idlib is one of the most important strongholds of rebels,...

The wail sliced through the stuffy underground medical centre in a besieged town near the Syrian capital. Dania, 14, was writhing in pain ahead of her first ever dialysis session. She was one of dozens of patients being treated for renal insufficiency inside a basement-turned-clinic in...

U.S.-backed local forces fighting Islamic State in Syria on Friday reached one side of the Tabqa dam, one of the top prizes in their campaign to drive the jihadist group from Raqqa city, local campaign officials said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Negotiating Committee in the besieged neighborhood of Al-Wa'ar, in Homs city, issued a brief statement on Friday announcing the postponement of the second evacuation, which was scheduled on Saturday afternoon due to fierce fighting in Hama countryside between the Syrian...

Syrian rivals will tackle all agenda items at peace talks this week, including political transition, the United Nations mediator Staffan de Mistura said Friday, warning not to expect "miracles." The fifth round of stalled U.N.-backed negotiations have started in Geneva, with a mandate to...

(Eqtsad)- The Syrian refugee community in the Turkish border city of Kilis has become victim of frequent burglary and robbery causing a prevailing feeling of insecurity among residents, especially Syrians, which caused a wave of concern among Syrian people over the social media, who called...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 15 regime soldiers were buried Friday in an official funeral in the coastal city of Tartus amid state of anger and resentment by the deaths families, activists said. Mustafa al-Banyasi, Tartus-based activist, said the families of slain soldiers have accused regime official of...

A U.S.- or Turkish-backed attack on Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa would be illegitimate unless coordinated with President Bashar al-Assad's government, the Syrian chief negotiator at peace talks in Geneva said on Friday. "Any military presence on our territory without the...