By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the difficult situations experienced by the Syrian opposition negotiator is that he sits in front of a team of the regime`s executioners searching for a political solution and this negotiator realizes that it is almost impossible with a regime that...

Turkey said Wednesday fewer than 100 ISIS extremists were still holed up in a flashpoint Syrian town which has seen the bloodiest clashes of Ankara's half-year campaign inside the conflict-torn country. Speaking to NTV television, Defense Minister Fikri Isik said half of the town of Al-Bab...

Rival Syrian camps were due in Geneva Wednesday for U.N.-brokered talks to end the six-year conflict with persistent violence and deadlock over the country's political future dampening hopes of a breakthrough. President Bashar Assad's negotiators and opposition delegations were expected to...

More than a year ago, Mayar and Nawar Ballish escaped car bomb attacks in Damascus. Now the Syrian sisters, both students in their twenties, go to school by train past neat gardens and farms in the quiet hills of Bavaria, southern Germany. They have lived there since October 2015. Their...

A fresh round of Syrian peace talks is set to begin in Geneva on Thursday. And while the U.N-sponsored talks may represent the best opportunity in years to make progress toward an end to the conflict, the burning question for many Syria observers is whether justice will be sacrificed in the...

An Israeli military plane carried out an airstrike on the Syrian regime forces stationed in the western countryside of Damascus near the Lebanese border. According to a military source, the attack targeted the Jerd Nalhleh area of the Qalamoun Mountains. Information about casualties is being...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Syrian regime militia looted a UN aid convoy delivering food rations and medicine to the besieged neighborhood of al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city, local activists said Tuesday. The 22 lorries were carrying food, medical supplies and winter clothes for almost 60,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least ten civilians have been killed in regime airstrikes on the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, activists said Tuesday. Ahmed Ramadan, activist for Euphrates Post campaign, said 30 more people have been wounded in the aerial attack on a bus station in the...

A new report by a Syria conflict monitoring group accuses the government of depopulating Sunni-majority areas in Syria's third largest city as it fights to consolidate its power. The report released Tuesday by the Washington-based Syria Institute raises ethical questions about what role, if...

(Middle East Eye)- Syria faces public health catastrophes that will linger for decades due to toxic rubble dust, oil fire pollution and the US-led coalition's use of depleted uranium weapons on Islamic State targets, campaigners have warned. The US last week admitted it had fired...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition warplanes killed 8 civilians from the same family in airstrikes hit an ISIS-held village near Raqqa city, local monitoring group said Tuesday. The Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently campaign said the US strikes targeted al-Sahhamiya village killing a whole...

CIA-coordinated military aid for rebels in northwest Syria has been frozen since they came under major Islamist attack last month, rebel sources said, raising doubts about foreign support key to their war against President Bashar Assad. Rebel officials said that no official explanation had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians on Monday were killed in the ISIS-held city of al-Bab as Turkey and US-led coalition stepped up its aerial campaign in support of Free Syrian Army fighters who press to take the strategic stronghold, local reporter said. The Turkish-led Operation Euphrates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish fighters backed by US airstrikes on Monday seized control of an oil field and 8 villages from the Islamic State in Deir Ezzor and Raqqa provinces, activists said Tuesday. Ahmed al-Ali, Hasaka-based activist, said SDF took al-Jweif oil well from ISIS in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Thuwar al-Atarib Group said unknown armed group had kidnapped Syrian army defector Major Anas Ibrahim Abu Zaid on Thursday near al-Atarib city in western Aleppo countryside. Media professional Yousef Obaid in the group told Zaman al-Wasl they accuse Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to be...

Forty-four ISIS militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes Monday, the Turkish military said Tuesday. One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded during work to clear landmines and explosives in the area,...

U.N.-brokered Syria peace talks restart in Geneva Thursday after a 10-month hiatus that has seen the opposition weakened and political upheaval in the foreign powers shaping the conflict. Since April 2016, when rival delegations were last in the Swiss city, government forces have...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- 170 rebel fighters on Monday have evacuated the mountainous town of Sargaya at the Lebanese border to northern Idlib province due to a Russian-brokered deal with the Syrian regime, activists said. The regime prepared several buses to transport around 170 fighters with their...

Four Russian military personnel were killed and two injured when their vehicle was targeted with explosives in central Syria last week, a defence ministry statement quoted by Russian agencies said Monday. "Four Russian servicemen died when their car exploded on a radio-controlled IED on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven people, including two children and two women, have been killed in regime airstrikes on Barzeh, northeastern suburb of Damascus, local activists said Monday. The northeastern neighborhoods of Damascus have endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment in the...