(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched counterattack on regime forces in southern Daraa city, taking few blocks as clashes enter the second month to control strategic neighborhood in the Old City of Daraa. Rebels said in statement posted online they have killed several army troops and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people were killed in the ISIS-held city of Deir Ezzor when regime forces pounded al-Hamidiya neighborhood with surface-to-surface missile, local activist said Sunday. Ahmed Ramadhan, Deir Ezzor-based activist, said the missiles attack accompanied with regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Revolutionary Youth, a group subordinate to the Democratic Union Party, has attacked supporters of the Kurdish National Council during their events organized al-Qamishli city commemorating the events of 12 March 2004, first Kurdish uprising against the Syrian regime. An...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 19 people in Raqqa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday. The aerial bombing hit a school that turned into a displaced shelter for tens of families in al-Kesrat village south of the Islamic State's de facto...

(The Independent)- An anti-Isis civilian fighter is crowdfunding so he can return to Syria for the third time. Steven Kerr, 58, from Northamptonshire, who left his job as a warehouse manager to join Kurdish rebels on the front line, is hoping to go back to Raqqa, the jihadis’ stronghold in...

Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front on Sunday said in a statement it was behind twin bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in the center of Damascus that killed 74 people. "On Saturday... a twin attack was carried out by two heroes of Islam... in the center of the capital...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Syrian doctor and a father of 7 sons passed away in regime air strikes has been killed on Sunday in regime airstrikes on southern Daraa city, medics said. The aerial attack on the neighborhood of al-Manshiya targeted a crew of medics were treating wounded...

(Eqtsad)- Heavy rainfall over Syria recently has saved the rain-fed agriculture season in te country from drought, however, the season this year is still weak and not as productive as former years according to farmers of Homs and Hama. Many farmers talked to Eqtsad explaining that recent...

The death toll from a double bomb attack targeting Shiites visiting a pilgrimage site in Damascus has climbed to 74, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday. Most of the dead in Saturday's attack were Iraqi Shiites who were going to visit a cemetery near the Old City...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Download the detainee list of 8536 people were arrested between 2011-2013 by 271 branch, a notorious military intelligence department was based in Idlib. Since the detainees had been transferred to 291 military branch in Damascus, their fate still...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYd militia has arrested 25 Arab tribesmen in the northeastern village of Dhaileh in Hasaka province to join the fight against the Islamic State, activists said Saturday. Source revealed that the Arab fighters were given Kurdish names to avoid ISIS reprisal....

By Ethar Abuhaq (Zaman al-Wasl) In recent years, Zaman al-Wasl has been a source for researchers and writers publishing books and studies about Syrian politics and Jihadism in Syria. Zaman al-Wasl not only provides accurate news from inside Syria but serves as a resource for writers,...

Syrian rebel groups called for the postponement of Russian-backed peace talks in Kazakhstan this month and said further meetings would depend on whether the government and its allies adhered to a newly declared March 7-20 cease-fire. The third round of talks is due to take place in Astana on...

Three hundred families of ISIS fighters have fled the extremists' self-proclaimed Syrian capital of Raqqa in 24 hours, as rival forces encircle the city, activists said Saturday. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "300 families of foreign fighters of ISIS have...

On the walls of a former ISIS-run jail, Syrian detainees whiled away endless months by scrawling phrases and poems, praying for freedom or bidding farewell to loved ones. One former prisoner of the extremists, Khalifah al-Khidr, returned to his cell in Al-Bab's jail two weeks after the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior air force pilots from Iran visited Shuairat military airport in central Homs province on Wednesday as the Syrian regime’s key ally sends more troops to bolster army against ISIS and moderate rebels, well-informed sources said. Most of Syria’s airbase turned to Russia...

A double bomb attack targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Damascus killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 more who were going to pray at a nearby shrine, the Iraqi foreign ministry said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday's attack, which the Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said he yet to see "anything concrete" from U.S. President Donald Trump over his vow to defeat ISIS and called U.S. forces deployed in Syria "invaders" because they were there without government permission. Assad, in an interview with Chinese TV station Phoenix,...

Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" in battles that ravaged the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Heavy bombardment of the eastern district of Shaar had blown massive chunks of concrete off a nearby...

(Daily Mail)- The Syrian army took control of the main water pumping station for Aleppo at al-Khafsa near the Euphrates on Tuesday after Islamic State fighters withdrew, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said. The army and its allies, backed by Russian air...