(The Guardian)- If they are lucky, Ahmad and his family in the Yarmouk refugee camp will have one meal today: two plates of rice cooked with undrinkable water. Others will have to do with less, perhaps a bowl of spiced water that doubles as a form of soup that will do nothing to ease the...

Reporting by Manar Abdulrazaq (Eqtsad)- regime allied militias had looted electricity cables in neighborhoods of the Western part of Aleppo, besides looting electricity generators of the Eastern part. Mahmood Abo al-Nour from the regime-loyal neighborhood of al-Zahra told Eqtsad that thugs...

The Syrian regime army and its allies made a sudden advance on Saturday and Sunday into areas held by Islamic State in northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as the jihadist group retreated after losing the city of al-Bab to Turkey-backed rebels. By taking Islamic State territory south of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians were killed on Sunday in regime airstrikes on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city, local reporter said. The residents of al-Waer and the towns and villages in Homs’ northern countryside are immobilized. All daily activities have halted including...

Syrian activists called on Sunday for the Assad government to engage in serious talks on political transition and for the United Nations to strengthen the fragile ceasefire as violence engulfed parts of the country. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said a militant attack in Homs on Saturday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has stepped up its aerial bombing on the besieged city of Douma near the capital, killing 10 people in the last 24 hours, local activists said Sunday. A man was killed early Sunday in Napalm bombs attack on Douma, 15km (10 miles) northeast Damascus. Activists...

The Syrian army and its allies made a sudden advance on Saturday and Sunday into areas held by ISIS in northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as the extremist group retreated after losing the city of al-Bab to Turkey-backed rebels on Thursday. The eastwards advance in an area south of al-Bab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl reveals the names of 170 political prisoners detained in Palmyra (Tadmour) Prison whom the al-Assad regime transferred to Tartus before the Islamic State forces took control of the city in 2015. The document was leaked by an official...

(BBC)- The imagery is all too familiar. A family on the move, their meagre belongings carried on their heads; a cluster of frightened children gripping a mother figure; the body of a victim cradled on the ground by a woman. These are depictions of the war in Syria - but they have been...

Syria's chief negotiator at U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva demanded Saturday that all opposition parties at the talks condemn the deadly assault in Homs or be considered "accomplices of terrorism." "Any party who refuses to condemn these attacks today we will consider that party to be an...

Syrian government and opposition delegates to peace talks in Geneva on Saturday warned of the impact on negotiations after a day of violence in Syria that included jihadist suicide bombings and missile strikes by the air force. The United Nations opened the peace talks with a symbolic...

(Washington Post)- For complicated reasons to do with war and politics, the only way in and out of the enclave controlled by Syria’s Kurds is on a rusty iron boat that ferries passengers across the Tigris River from Iraq. Late last year, photographer Alice Martins and I boarded one of those...

U.S. immigration authorities are barring entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on a harrowing film about his nation's civil war, "The White Helmets," that has been nominated for an Academy Award. According to internal Trump administration correspondence seen by The...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Six people, including a woman and a child, were killed Saturday in regime airstrikes on the city of Douma northeast of Damascus, rescuing volunteer group said. Firas al-Doumi, press spokesman for Civil Defense, said three of the victims have burned to death and their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 people, including four family members, have been killed in regime air strikes on Khan Sheikhoun and Ariha towns in northern Idlib province, activists said Saturday. The deadly strikes on Ariha have also left 50 people wounded, local activists said. Also, five...

 Ibrahim Dereci emanates pride as he flickers on his prayer beads. Immaculately dressed in a suit and tie, he is a throwback to a different era.  The 62-year-old runs his patisserie in Istanbul’s Fatih district, while also keeping an eye on his neighbourhood from the well-located...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A suicide attack on regime security zone in the central city of Homs on Saturday killed at least 4o officers and soldiers and wounded dozens, Zaman al-Wasl reporter and monitoring group said. The attackers stormed two security offices in Homs, killing dozens with gunfire...

An attack on Syrian regime security forces in the central city of Homs on Saturday killed at least 14 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The sound of gunfire and explosions had been heard since early in the day and those killed included a senior officer, the...

The White House has blocked several major news outlets from covering its press briefing. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday hand selected news outlets to participate in an off-camera “gaggle” with reporters inside his West Wing office instead of the James S Brady Press Briefing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Major Abdul Kader abdul Razak ,  a war hero who fought in October War 1973 but 10 years later  was executed in notorious Tadmur Prison.  The name of the Major "Abdul Kader abdul Razak" was mentioned in "Zaman Al Wasl" newspaper leaks within the list of names...