(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Jaish al-Islam group on Saturday has thwarted regime offensive in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, local monitor said. The multi-axes attack took place in Hosh Nasri, Hosh al-Dhawahra and al-Marj district, according to Douma Local Coordination. In...

The Jordanian air force conducted air strikes against ISIS targets in southern Syria on Saturday night, hitting an ammunition depot, a car bomb factory and a barracks, the Jordanian military said in a statement. "The operation resulted in killing and wounding a number of members of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- State-run TV said a reconciliation dead to be reached between the Druze dominated villages of Beit Saber and Beit Tima,  and the surrounding villages in Mount Hermon after deep discords. Activists have accused the regime of pushing the villages of Jabal al-Sheikh to...

  An alliance of U.S.-backed militias said it had started a new phase of its campaign against the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa on Saturday, aiming to complete its encirclement and sever the road to militant strongholds in Deir al-Zor province. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes killed 6 rebel fighters on Friday in air strikes on the newly-formed Haya't Tahrih al-Sham alliance in Idlib province, local reporter said. The aerial bombing hit a bastion for the formerly known as Nusra Front in Sarmin town, killing and wounding dozen....

(TRT World)- Syrians gathered at an Aleppo stadium to watch a live football match on Saturday, the first in nearly six years of war. The Al-Ittihad club beat Al-Hurriya 2-1 in their first match after war divided the northern city into regime-held west and rebel-controlled east....

For the tenth day in a row, Syrian armed opposition groups have resisted attempts by the Assad regime and allied militias to advance on Daraa’s northern countryside. Clashes between the two sides remain ongoing on the outskirts of Daraa’s Al-Waredat village. Located on the eastern side of the...

The water supply to the Syrian city of Raqqa, a stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) group, has been reconnected after US airstrikes caused a temporary cut. The main pipeline was damaged when a bridge was hit, according to IS and anti-IS activists. Citizen journalist group Raqqa is Being...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Yazan, 10-year-old boy, lost his left eye in an ISIS landmine explosion in the northern city of Manbij weeks ago, such an accident that has been repeating in the ISIS-freed areas.  Despite ISIS withdrawal or retreat in the Syrian north, its danger still roaming by...

Representatives of the Syrian opposition arrived Friday in Turkish capital Ankara to discuss the upcoming negotiation talks in Geneva, according to a Turkish diplomatic source. The representatives of both the armed and the political opposition will attend a meeting at the Turkish Foreign...

(Middle East Eye)-When the highly contagious, crippling and potentially fatal polio virus reappeared in war-torn Syria in 2013, nearly two decades after it had been eradicated in the country, Khaled Almilaji was a key player in containing the outbreak that threatened millions inside and beyond...

Water to the ISIS's Syrian bastion of Raqa has been cut after suspected coalition raids on the city's main pipeline, a monitor and activists told AFP on Friday. "After coalition air strikes, the main water line was ruptured and water was cut to all of Raqa city," said Hamoud al-Mousa of...

One of the boys in the seven-member Syrian family due to arrive in suburban Washington this week would have slept under a duvet dyed in the red, white and blue of the US flag, a centerpiece for the room in which he was to start his new life. The apartment was furnished, the kitchen...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tension persists in Idlib and Aleppo provinces following the clashes between Ahrar al-Sham brigade and the newly-formed Haya't Tahrir al-Sham (al-Sham Liberation Committee). Each side accuses the other of committing transgressions on a daily basis especially in Idlib’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thirty five years since the darkest pages in the Syrian history have been written by the regime when about 40,000 people brutally killed in the central city of Hama. The bloody repression by the regime army was not against the armed uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood in...

Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh has toured the world for years to international acclaim but his planned return on Thursday to his home in the United States has been thrown into uncertainty. The clarinettist and composer, who won standing ovations in Beirut on Wednesday night at the final...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched attack on regime-held Kuweiris military airbase in northern Aleppo province, the group’s Amaq news agency said Thursday. The attack on Kuweiris, It was used for educational purposes mainly, is fourth on regime bases in few weeks by ISIS. No...

The Syrian army said Thursday that recent advances against ISIS northeast of Aleppo were a starting point for further operations to drive the extremist group back and extend government control in the area. The army's general command said in a statement it had recently recaptured more than 30...

Turkish warplanes killed 51 ISIS militants in operations over the last 24 hours, the military said in a statement Thursday. Warplanes destroyed 85 ISIS targets in the areas of al-Bab, Tadif, Kabbasin and Bzagah, including buildings and vehicles. Turkey launched an operation,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former al Qaeda group aimed to escape US-led airstrikes through dissolving in a new alliance, Haya't al-Sham Tahrir (The Sham Liberation Committee), jihadist source said, such an aim may drag the allied Islamist groups with Jabhat Fateh al-Sham to blacklist and Coalition's...