At least one person was killed on Thursday when Syrian regime forces carried out an attack using chlorine gas in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, according to a local source. The attack targeted Eastern Ghouta’s opposition-held town of Arbin, Seraj Mohamed, a pro-opposition civil defense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a provocative move by the Syrian regime accompanied with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Hama massacre, a huge statue for Hafez al-Assad to be inaugurated this week at the entrance of once war-torn city. The statute was removed at the early days of the Syrian conflict that...

(The Guardian)- A self-styled “revolutionary” from Blackburn is believed to have become the first British woman to travel to Syria to join the fight against Isis. Kimberly Taylor, 27, left the UK to join the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the all-female affiliate army of the People’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The heavy clashes have been resumed inside the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab on Thursday as the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army presses to take new neighborhoods in the last stronghold of the Islamic State in Aleppo province, local reporter said. On Wednesday, FSA fighters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In unprecedented way, fuel crisis aggravated in Syrian in general and in Latakia province in particular. Most gas stations stopped working because they are not supplied with fuel since days and most cars were parked except for cars owned by state officials and big thugs and...

 As judges deliberated President Trump’s travel ban, four children from the Syrian city of Aleppo were slipping and sliding across the floor of an airport in Turkey as the clock to their new life counted down. After years in a temporary apartment, 9-year-old Mohamed Tawouz imagined...

The Syrian Red Crescent said on its Twitter account four volunteers were wounded, one critically, by shellfire as they distributed aid in Aleppo Wednesday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a separate tweet three people were killed and seven injured, including Red...

 (Zaman Al wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday took three villages from ISIS north of Raqqa city, spokeswoman told Zaman al-Wasl. Jihan Ahmed, spokeswoman of the operation room of Euphrates Wrath said  that their forces at the axis of Makman have reached to the...

Syria's justice ministry on Wednesday dismissed as "completely false" an Amnesty International report alleging up to 13,000 people were hanged over five years in a Syrian government prison. The ministry said the Amnesty report was "completely untrue and intended to harm Syria's reputation in...

Syrian government jets bombed a rebel-held district of Homs city on Wednesday killing several people, rescue workers and a monitoring group reported. The raids hit the al-Waer neighborhood, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue service...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Wednesday has fired 6 Surface-to-surface missiles on al-Waer neighborhood of Homs city, killing 8 civilians, including a child and woman, local activists said. The missile attack has also left 25 people wounded in the last rebel stronghold in the...

 Syrian rebels and Turkish special forces have together made important progress in northern Syria in the fight against ISIS, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. In a joint news conference with his Saudi counterpart in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Cavusoglu...

(Daily Mail)- Boris Johnson yesterday said he was 'sickened' by reports that Bashar al-Assad's regime tortured and hanged 13,000 political prisoners in four years. Amid compelling evidence that the Syrian president's henchmen carried out an unprecedented 'policy of extermination', the Foreign...

Rohi Atassi was among 117 immigrants to become the newest American citizens during a Chicago naturalization ceremony Tuesday, but the Syrian dentist stood out among his peers. The 29-year-old was unexpectedly asked to lead immigrants from 37 countries in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s vacuum missiles killed three people in central Hama province on Tuesday, activists said as regime and rebels swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children.  The missile attack targeted the villages of al-Jaberiya, Aydoun...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A statement issued by the first lawful judge in Damascus  encouraging second marriage to lessen the war losses and to reduce spinsterhood has sparked anger amid regime supporters on Tuesday. Judge Mahmoud Marawi told state-run Tishreen Newspaper that second marriage is...

The Syrian government and rebel groups swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children, in Hama province Tuesday evening, pro-opposition activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition-aligned group, said government...

(New York Times)- Marhaf Homsi was not impressed with the baklava situation in New York. The pastries were too sweet for his taste, and there was often a filler like semolina mixed in with the nuts. The nuts themselves were pulverized and powdery, ruining the texture of the confection....

(Wall Street Journal)- Weeks after he disappeared while fleeing the devastated city of Aleppo, Abdulhadi Kamel of the Syrian civil-defense group White Helmets turned up last month in an online video posted by a Russian-language news agency. His hair and beard disheveled, Mr. Kamel denounced...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 people, including an infant, killed in regime airstrikes on Irbin town east of Damascus as regime forces press to overrun the strategic Eastern Ghouta suburb, local reporter said Tuesday. The regime warplanes have conducted more than ten raids on Irbin since early...