The street looks as if it was hit by an earthquake and the bombed-out building in a former rebel-held northeastern neighborhood of Aleppo is deserted — except for the second-floor apartment where Abdul-Hamid Khatib and his family are staying. There is no electricity or running water....

 Members of the Syrian opposition delegation arrived Sunday in the Kazakh capital Astana for face-to-face peace talks with the war-torn nation's government. The talks, set to begin on Monday, will be the first time a delegation composed exclusively of rebel groups will negotiate with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Sunday captured Panorama district at the southern gate of Deir Ezzor city in a surprise attack left dozens pf regime troops killed and wounded, activists said.   Activist Ahmed Ramadan said many Afghan fighters who fight in support of Bashar al-Assad have...

(Al-Arabiya)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be suffering from an eyelid twitch in his left eye as a result of psychological pressures, according to sources in Moscow. In its Saturday edition, the London-based pan Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted these sources as saying that after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed 7 people on Sunday in air strikes hit the embattled northern countryside of Homs province a day before the start of Syrian peace talks in Astana, local activists said. The aerial bombing targeted the twons of Talbiesh, Rastan and al-Houleh....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has moved most of its fighters jets from the embattled T4 military air ports in the past two weeks over fears the Islamic State will succeed in taking the strategic base in Syria desert, sources said. The military sources said 20 Su-24 and Su-22 were transferred...

(Al-Jazeera)- A letter from a young woman to her fallen husband, a pro-Assad fighter in Syria, was recently published in Tasnim News, one of Iran's most prominent news agencies affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "This shrine [the Zaynab shrine] is sacred ... I am...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Saturday took a strategic village at the banks of Euphrates dam from ISIS, activists said. The capture of al-Suwaydiya al-Kabira from ISIS west of the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, will tighten the noose on the radical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYD militia has arrested dozens of civilians, including a woman in northeastern of Hasaka province, local activists said. The armed groups surrounded the villages of Tell al-Tahin and Khawliyet Jouleh and arrested dozens of residents from both villages including a...

(New York Times)- Nisreen al-Najjar thought the worst was behind her family when it fled to Jordan from war-torn Homs in Syria. Then, two years later, though safe from the shelling and the Syrian civil war, her son Hisham, who was 5, began to rapidly lose weight. When Ms. Najjar...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces took ground from ISIS near the besieged T4 military air base after major attack launched on Friday in the eastern countryside of Homs province, activists said. Backed by heavy aerial bombing and National defense militia, the Assad forces controlled...

(Foreign Policy)- Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has just departed war-torn Damascus following what her aides described as a “fact-finding” mission to work toward ending the nearly six-year conflict in Syria. Congressional travel to the devastated country is exceedingly rare,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Islamic State inflicts humiliating defeats on the Syrian regime forces in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, Damascus has opened an aerial bridge in several airports in Syria, to deliver weapons and troops to backed the recessive forces, sources said. IIyushin II-76 aircraft,...

The Syrian regime and rebel fighters will Monday sit down at the negotiating table for the first time in nearly six years of war, the latest diplomatic push to end hostilities. Hosted in the Kazakh capital Astana, the talks will see an opposition delegation composed exclusively of rebel...

A U.S. air strike on Thursday targeting an al Qaeda training camp in Syria's Idlib province killed more than 100 militants, the Pentagon said in a statement on Friday. The strike took place just a day before the end of Barack Obama's presidency and the beginning of Donald Trump's, and a day...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 people were killed in the northeastern Deir Ezzor province as fighting intensifies between regime forces and the Islamic State, local activists said Friday. 10 people, including six o f the same family, were killed in ISIS mortar fire on the regime-controlled...

(TASS)- The signing of a Russian-Syrian agreement on the Russian naval base in Tartus will serve the strengthening of stability across the entire Middle East and it has a potential for exerting beneficial influence on the inter-Syrian political dialogue, State Duma member Sergei Zheleznyak, a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted regime attack on the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area in Latakia province, activists said. The regime forces backed by Shiite militias launched attacks on al-Tuffahiya hilltop, taking advantage of discorded between main Syria's armed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS militants have destroyed the historic Tetrapylon and severely destroyed the Roman Theatre in Palmyra, the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. Local sources in Palmyra reported to Zaman al-Wasl that the Islamic State (ISIS) has lately...

Russia and Syria have signed an agreement on expanding and modernizing Russia's Tartous naval base in Syria, a Russian government document showed. The agreement envisages that 11 Russian warships can be located in the Tartous base at one time, the document showed....