At least 21 civilians were killed Tuesday by airstrikes in northwestern Idlib city, a pro-opposition civil defense member said.  Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Omer Ulwan said suspected Russian warplanes carried out ten airstrikes on populated areas in Idlib’s Kusur district. ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said U.S. President Donald Trump's priority of fighting Islamist fundamentalists led by ISIS was promising but it was too early to expect stronger steps, state news agency SANA reported Tuesday. Assad was also quoted as telling a group of Belgian reporters...

As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said Tuesday, accusing the regime of a "policy of extermination." Titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison," Amnesty's...

After clashes with Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday captured two towns in eastern Raqqa. “The SDF forces today seized control of the Hadi and Natali towns in the eastern countryside of Raqqa,” an SDF spokesman told ARA News. “ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Corruption in security and legal bodies of rebels' military factions had helped informers and agents of the Syrian regime’s intelligence in penetrating the revolutionary forces besides arresting and killing many rebels. In this matter, an eyewitness, nickname as Abo Thaer,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime opened a cross point in al-Houla region on Monday to exit besieged civilians in Homs northern countryside to regime-controlled areas following agreement between regime and a delegate from al-Houla,  sources said. The sources added that the cross point will...

(Washington Post)- The rice and chicken were steaming on the stove. The twins chased each other around the apartment and the 2-year-old watched Mickey Mouse on the donated television. Their mother, Fatema Aljasem, 29, sat at the kitchen table with two women from the local synagogue....

 ISIS was "completely besieged" in Al-Bab after forces loyal to Syria's regime cut off a road into the extremists' last major stronghold in Aleppo province, a monitor said Monday. "Al-Bab is now completely besieged by the regime from the south, and the Turkish forces and rebels from the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement published on the official Twitter account an infographic highlights the manpower and areas of control. The Islamist group said 50 brigades and 400 battalions are fighting under its banner with total rebel fighters reached 25000. 11 rebel...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime pilot was killed on Sunday in crash-landing in the Nairab military airport in Aleppo province, source said.  The cause of the Su-22 crash-landing has not revealed yet. The pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Basel Saleh, was immediately killed. Source said the...

(Eqtsad)-  People of  the Yarmouk Basin in the southern province of Daraa have been affected by months of conflict between rebels and an ISIS-affiliated group where living conditions get worse and ban of food entry escalates the suffering. The clashes with the Khalid Ibn...

U.S-led coalition planes bombed an Islamic State-controlled town near the Euphrates Dam in northern Syria a day after the launch of a new phase of a campaign to capture the militants' defacto capital of Raqqa, activists and the militants said on Sunday. Activists confirmed reports released by...

(ARA News)- Thousands of Arab fighters have joined the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS in Raqqa. One of the main Arab factions currently participating in the SDF’s Euphrates Wrath Operation for Raqqa is the Syrian Elite Forces. Muhedi Jayila, Commander of...

 Russia said on Sunday that it supports the continuation of Syria peace talks under United Nations auspices, long-running negotiations which had been thrown into doubt by separate, Moscow-backed peace talks launched last month. The latest round of U.N. talks had been planned to begin in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia on Saturday launched an arrest campaign tracking corrupted members and officials of People’s Protection Units(YPG), including a woman within what so-called the “Law of People” in the province of Hasaka, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Saturday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian armored carrier exploded near Hmeimym base in the coastal Latakia province on Saturday, local media outlets said. The BTR-80, an 8x8 wheeled amphibious vehicle, was carrying 7 Russian soldiers, Latakia News Network said. No rebel group claimed the responsibility for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed 10 Islamist rebels fighting under the banner of Haya't Tahrir al-Sham, new alliance including former al-Qaeda group, local activists said Sunday. The aerial bombing targeted the northern town of Sarmin less than 48 hours since suspected...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army took al-Bazza’a village from the Islamic State near al-Bab city, the last stronghold for group in Aleppo province, local reporter said Sunday. The FSA advance come as Turkish warplanes pound ISIS bastions in the strategic city. On Thursday,...

A total of 422 migrants were intercepted by Turkish police over the last week en route to Greek islands, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. According to a statement, the operations were carried out between Jan. 27 and Feb. 3. Coast Guard patrols apprehended 56 migrants offshore trying to...

(Eqtsad)- Islamic State has blocked food supply route to the western neighborhoods in Yarmouk refugee cam south of the capital, making the already severe living condition of 350 people harder, residents said. ISIS has closed the only remaining humanitarian route to the neighborhoods of...