(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed in the past two weeks fighting in different battlefields across Syria, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 15 officers, the source added. The coffins shipments to the regime's powerful...

(The Guardian)- A British man who died fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria killed himself to avoid being taken hostage by Islamic State militants. Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died in an offensive by anti-Isis forces in a bid to retake the northern city of Raqqa,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four children and a woman on Wednesday have been killed in regime barrel bombs attack on Hama province, local media center said. The barrel attack on the ISIS-held village of al-Nashmi has also left dozen people wounded. More aerial bombing targeted towns of Tybat al-Imam and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Red Crescent volunteers have been wounded in a US-led coalition airstrike on their center in Idlib city, Civil Defense rescuing group said Wednesday. The strike on the Carlton hotel has also caused huge damage in the building made it out of service. In the eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday took two villages from ISIS in the eastern countryside of Aleppo and its main stronghold of al-Bab, local reporter said. The capture of Abu al-Randain and al-Ghouz villages will halt regime advance west of ISIS-held town of al-Bab....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 108,000 people have been displaced from Iraq since the beginning of Mosul battle three months ago, they suffer difficult living condition in camps they live in, especially the camp of al-Hol near Hasaka northern Syria. Number of refugees in the camp have increased...

(New York Times)- President Trump’s travel ban disrupted the plans of hundreds of people around the globe, but perhaps none more vulnerable than Sham Aldaher, an infant Syrian refugee girl, and her family. Sham was born without an eye and with a seriously disfigured face. Following two...

(Eqtsad)- Medication crisis and shortage of most kind of drugs in Damascus is highly mentioned at social media websites, as people talk about lack of medicine and the difficulty of getting it in the capital, besides expressing anger on the regime and officials of the pharmaceutical sector...

A Syrian opposition figure who says he controls 3,000 Arab fighters has told Reuters they are training with U.S.-led coalition forces in preparation to help drive ISIS from its de facto capital in the city of Raqqa. Ahmad Jarba commands the Syrian Elite Forces, described by the U.S. military...

Syria opposition officials Wednesday criticized U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura after he said he could pick the opposition delegation representatives to U.N.-led talks in Geneva if they failed to do so. De Mistura Tuesday said the talks previously scheduled for February 8 had been postponed to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- General Secretary of the Syrian National Coalition said the United Nations envoy for Syria is a partner in the killing of Syrian people, assuring that he is unable to form the opposition delegation unless they want to. Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday the UN-supported...

(Daily Mail)- A US doctor diagnosed with Stage IV cancer says he cannot be with his family - since they are Syrian and barred by President Trump's travel ban. Dr Morhaf Al Achkar, 33, emigrated to the United States from Syria in 2006, before becoming an esteemed primary care physician at...

(BBC)- Mariam Hammad, despite every adversity of war and hardship, is trying to be a student in Aleppo in the dark heart of Syria's civil war. "My city has turned to ruins," she says. Despite being in constant danger, forced out of her home twice by shelling and living without...

The United Nations envoy for Syria on Tuesday said he asked the Security Council to postpone the UN facilitated talks that had been scheduled for 8 February in Geneva until 20 February, in order to give the war-torn country’s opposition time to unite and come as one group. “We want to give a...

A Pennsylvania family fighting to have their relatives return to the United States after they were detained at Philadelphia International Airport and sent back overseas under the immigration order told "NBC Nightly News" that they voted for Donald Trump. “I understand he wants to make...

After nearly 24 hours of exhausting travel from war-ravaged Syria, the Abu Assaleh family arrived in Philadelphia, brimming with excitement to begin their new life in the United States. The Christian family of eight had waited more than 13 years since first applying for the immigration visas...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 700 rebel fighters have defected from the Nour al-Din al-Zinki group, joining Faylaq al-Sham near the Turkish border as their group preferred to take place in a newly-formed alliance including al Qaeda's former branch , sources said Tuesday. Several Islamist...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 regime officers, including three military engineers, killed in an ISIS attack on Sayqal military airbase east of Damascus, the group's news agency and pro-regime media said. Amaq agency said the Islamic State's militiamen have taken control of air defense...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has transferred a squadron of Su-22 from Shuairat airport in central Homs province to al-Nairab airport in Aleppo province to bolster army and allied militias in their offensive against ISIS and Free Syrian Army, sources said. The Syrian regime seeks to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lawyer Abdullah al-Khalil disappeared in mid-May 2013, 75 days after al-Raqqah was liberated and the regime forces expelled.  Al-Khalil was one of the most prominent figures in the revolutionary movement in al-Raqqah and most of the eastern area. He disappeared, and...