Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish hospital refused to admit Sham, a Syrian infant in Turkey who suffers of big Meningocele, because her parents have not obtained the refugees ID card yet. Sham from Deir Ezzor, she was born with big Meningocele, almost as big as her size,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed 10 civilians, including 5 children, west of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, activists said Sunday. Half of the victims were members of a displaced family that fled Eastern Aleppo to Raqqa. Meanwhile, Syria Democratic Forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels made surprise gains on Sunday, taking ground at the eastern gate of the capital links between Qaboun and Jobar neighborhoods amid state of chaos in regime ranks and people of the capital, activists said. Rebels launched a major offensive early on Sunday that...

Just before midnight in a sleepy district of Beirut, dozens of Syrian refugees huddle in small groups around bulging suitcases, clutching their pinging cellphones and one-way tickets to Italy. "Torino! Pronto! Cappuccino!" They practise random Italian words in a schoolyard in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians have been killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs Sunday as regime forces step up its aerial and ground offensive on the besieged district for over a month, local activists said. Four people, including a child, lost their lives in Arbin town while 4 more people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians, including children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes targeted the northern city of Idlib on Sunday, local media center said. Idlib Media Center said Russia has pounded a civil area with vacuum missiles, leaving 13 people killed and wounded. More...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces, advanced on Sunday to the area surrounding the town of al-Karama in al-Raqqah countryside while the Islamic State forces announced they killed ten members of the SDF east of al-Karama....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces battled rebel groups at the fringes of Damascus on Sunday, after the insurgents launched an attack from the east of the heavily fortified capital, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and allied forces had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 2400 Rebels and their families evacuated from Waer Neighborhood in Homs city have arrived to FSA-controlled town of al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said Sunday. Rebels began leaving their last bastion in the city of Homs on Saturday under a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Democratic Union Party (PYD) continues its campaign closing the offices of parties and organizations that oppose it in the areas under its control in northern Syria. The PYD also announced that there would be no gatherings to celebrate the Nowruz festival that takes place...

(Eqtsad)- The systematic destruction and targeting field hospitals by the Syrian regime forces and Russian warplanes in Daraa province, has led to putting a large number of field hospitals out of service, causing a dramatic decline of health services provided to people. The rise in the prices...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime mourned 34 troops, including 11officers, from coastal province of Tatrus, have been killed in the last two weeks across Syria, local reporter said. The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the...

IDLIB (Eqtsad)- Garbage has become a real health problem in the village of Ma'rret Hormeh in Southern countryside of Idlib, despite the effort being given, but the problem still bigger than expected. Ma'rret Hormeh is a small village, about 13 km to the southwest of Ma'rret Noman, almost at...

Rebel fighters and their families began leaving their last bastion in the Syrian city of Homs Saturday, state media and a Reuters witness said, under an evacuation deal with the government expected to be among the largest of its kind. The first few buses carrying rebels and their...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Legal committee in the Syrian National Coalition submitted a memo to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs a memo demanding prosecution of pilot in Assad regime Mohamed Soufan whose jet fell on Turkish soil following accusation that Soufan committed massacres against Syrian...

The Pentagon on Friday denied accusations by a Syrian rebel group that the United States had targeted a mosque in Syria and, in a rare move, showed an aerial image to illustrate the mosque was intact and the building destroyed was in fact across the street. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff...

 Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes targeted weapons bound...

 Friday prayers were cancelled in rebel-held parts of northern Syria after an airstrike that struck a crowded mosque, killing at least 40 people and wounded many others, Syrian opposition activists said. A powerful Syrian opposition group and other opposition activists blamed the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of  people rallied across Syria on Friday commemorating the 6th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. Activists surfaced on social media videos of a demonstration in Marret al-Nu'man in the southern countryside of Idlib, where the prominent vocal supporter and...

The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said a U.S.-backed assault to drive Islamic State from its de-facto capital Raqqa would begin at the start of April and the YPG would be taking part, despite fierce opposition from neighboring Turkey. A spokesman for the U.S. Pentagon, Navy...