U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura handed working papers focused on procedural issues to delegations at Syrian peace talks on Friday, but there appeared little prospect of the opposing sides meeting directly soon. Opposing sides in the war came face-to-face at the U.N. for the first time in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Higher education and post-graduation study have become a dream for students live the Southern of Damascus for the last 6 years, which forced the student to look for alternatives, as they have only two only, either to take a chance of the additional session of the University of...

A car bomb in a village near al-Bab in Syria struck Syrian rebels fighting ISIS early Friday, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens more, activists and Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The Turkey-backed rebels Thursday drove ISIS from al-Bab, the extremist group's last significant...

(Middle East Eye)- Few inventors can call their brainchilds a "game changer". But that is exactly what the grand jury at the European Youth Awards called Abdul Rahman Alashraf's creation. The young Syrian inventor was presented with a European Youth Award in December 2016 for his winning...

(New York Times)- In the makeshift tent settlements that dot fields and villages in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Syrian refugees are digging in, pouring concrete floors, installing underground sewerage and electric wires, and starting businesses and families. What they are not doing is...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Video)- A mass grave for 42 moderate rebels found on Thursday in northern Khan Sheikhoun town in Idlib province, rescuing volunteer group said. About 200 members of rebel factions were killed roughly by the ISIS-linked Jund al-Aqsa group that had killed roughly in Khan...

Syrian women Thursday demanded that the fate of their detained or missing relatives be addressed in United Nations-sponsored peace talks, hoping they lead to prisoner releases. Staffan de Mistura, U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, met them after seeing delegations from the Syrian government and...

Syria's state grain buyer has signed contracts with local traders for 1.2 million tonnes of Russian wheat, a government source said, the country's second attempt at a huge wheat deal since October as it tries to secure supplies of the food staple. "We have signed six contracts each for 200,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Well-informed source said Riad Hijab, the chairman of the High Committee of the Syrian negotiations, has been receiving treatment in the U.S. as his fellow opposition figures are holding talks with the Syrian regime in Geneva on Thursday. The head of the Saudi-backed opposition...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Death orders issued by ISIS showed that being an Ahrar al-Sham member is a great crime that you lose your life for, according to documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. The newly-obtained documents include 120 names of people had been killed or detained by ISIS over...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army announced on Thursday that they had taken full control of the northern town of Al-Bab from ISIS after 75 days of deadly fighting. "We are announcing Al-Bab completely liberated, and we are now clearing mines from the residential neighborhoods,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes have intensified Thursday in southern Daraa city between rebels and regime army that backed by a heavy airstrikes to capture a strategic neighborhood, activists said. The regime jets conducted 15 raids and dropped 6 barrel bombs on al-Manshiya neighborhood, the...

Fifty-six ISIS militants were killed by Turkey-backed forces around the Syrian town of al-Bab and by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in the latest operations Wednesday, the Turkish military said Thursday. Turkish artillery fire also hit 104 ISIS targets, including buildings and bombed...

Syria's main opposition delegation on Wednesday asked for direct discussions with government representatives at the Geneva IV peace talks aimed at ending the six-year conflict by reaching a political solution. "We want direct talks, direct negotiation. It is enough for Syrian people. l hope...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syria democratic Forces took new array of villages from ISIS in the northern countryside of Raqqa on Thursday, pressing rapid advances the will encircle the group’s de facto capital in very few days. The Kurdish-led SDF seized control of  15  villages...

The Syrian regime army and its allies took a small district on the outskirts of Aleppo from rebels on Wednesday, a war monitor and a military media unit run by Damascus ally Hezbollah said. The advance was the army's first from its lines in Aleppo city since rebels departed their enclave there...

 The UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday he was "not expecting a breakthrough" at peace talks this week but voiced hope that rival sides could build "momentum" towards a deal. "Am I expecting a breakthrough? No, I am not expecting a breakthrough," de Mistura told reporters...

A Syrian asylum seeker went on trial in Austria on Wednesday accused of killing 20 government soldiers fighting for President Bashar Assad near the city of Homs, a court spokesman said. Austria has jailed several people for "belonging to a terrorist organisation", a charge usually levelled...

Russia is open for dialogue with the United States on safe zones in Syria but believes that any such initiative needs to be coordinated with the Syrian government, Moscow's top diplomat said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he had briefly discussed the issue with U.S. Secretary...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Syrian journalists have been wounded in a suspected Russian airstrike hit the northern countryside of Hama province on Wednesday, Local Coordination Committees said. The wounded journalists are Seif Abdullah, the local reporter of Orient news channel, Mohamed al-Huwaish,...