(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syria Democratic Forces backed by US airstrikes on Monday took 5 villages from the Islamic State northeast Raqqa city, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major IS-held cities in the country and closing in on the extremists’ de facto capital. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State affiliate took three village from rebels in the southern province of Daraa on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and rebels, sources said. Jaish Khaled Ibn al-Walid, an Islamist alliance pledged allegiance to ISIS two year ago, has captured...

(Eqtsad)- Om Mohamed, 50-year-old woman lives in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, did not realize that she will be forced one day to sell the gold which she saved during 25 years from the income of her martyred husband as he used to work in selling electric devices. Om...

One in four Canadians say Ottawa should have adopted a temporary halt on Syrian refugees in response to the United States' controversial travel ban, though the majority supported the government's current immigration plan, an Angus Reid Institute poll showed on Monday. Sixty percent of those...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Ammar Saati, senior aide of Bashar al-Assad and the close friend of his brother Maher , is the founder of al-Ba'ath Brigades, key unit in the Fifth legion, paramilitary group affiliated to the regime army. Alwyat al-Ba'ath militia was formed in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and allied militias blocked the entry of a UN-aid convoy delivering food rations and medicine to the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs city, residents said Sunday. Abu Faisal, one of 60,000 people live in al-Waer, told Zaman al-Wasl that the regime...

Syrian regime forces fired rockets at a rebel-held area on Damascus's outskirts on Sunday, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said. The medical worker and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the biggest...

Syrian rebel groups who have participated in peace talks said on Sunday that an upsurge in Syrian army shelling and bombing was wrecking the prospects of maintaining a Russian-Turkish-brokered ceasefire. The rebel groups, mostly backed by Turkey, who attended two rounds of talks in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of people have fled al-Qaboun neighborhood, northeast Damascus on Sunday as aerial and ground bombardment killed and wounded dozens of civilians in the past three days, local activists said Sunday. 17 people, including two women were killed on Saturday in al-Qaboun...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 ISIS militants were killed in northern Syria in the last 24 hours by Turkish forces and the U.S.-led coalition, according to a Turkish General Staff statement Sunday. Turkish army forces killed at least 12 ISIS fighters as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates...

The Syrian opposition is fully committed to peace talks in Geneva on Feb. 23, a senior official said on Sunday, adding the talks would need to pave the way for a political transition. "We are fully committed for the Geneva talks," Syrian National Coalition President Anas al-Abdah told...

US-backed fighters captured a village in northern Syria on Saturday from members of the militant Islamic State group, bringing them closer to cutting a road linking two major IS-held cities in the country and closing in on the extremists’ de facto capital. The push came as Turkish Prime...

(Daily Mail)- The Russian Defence Ministry has published a video showing a building being bombed after saying it had struck an Islamic State base in Syria.  The ministry said in a statement that the Tupolev-95 bombers had taken off from Russia and flown over Iran and Iraq to get to...

(Middle East Eye)- Two Syrian children who have become powerful symbols of their homeland's conflict met on Saturday, vowing that "the war will not stop us" in spite of the horrific violence around them. Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed - whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of...

Turkey has presented two proposals to the United States for how to carry out a joint military operation to drive Islamic State from its stronghold in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Saturday. Ankara has said repeatedly that the planned operation should be...

At least nine people were killed on Saturday when government forces launched a barrage of rockets that hit a funeral on the edges of the Syrian capital, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "seven rockets and several shells hit areas on the edges of Qabun", a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 civilians, including two women, were killed in the eastern neighborhoods of Damascus when the regime army rocked a funeral in al-Qaboun with surface-to-surface missiles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The Britain-based monitoring group said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 41 regime army troops, including 11 officers, have been buried in the coastal city of Tartus who had been killed in the past two weeks, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 2 general brigadiers, 2 lieutenant colonels and 8 lieutenants, mostly were...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five people, including four family members, were killed in Daraa province when regime warplanes hit the eastern and western countryside, activists said Saturday. Father, mother and two sons have lost their lives in the village of Om al-Mayathen as regime and Russia...

Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes in a besieged rebel-held district of Homs Saturday that killed at least two people, adding to a death toll of more than 20 in nearly two weeks of air raids, activists said. Al-Waer, the last rebel-held neighborhood in the western city of Homs, had...