(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian military police killed two members of the Iraqi al-Baqr militia in al-Halwaniyah neighborhood in eastern Aleppo last week while a Russian military member was injured during the clash, sources said. The clash erupted when the Russian army stopped a truck loaded with...

Alone in her room at an overcrowded retirement home in Damascus, Naz Ashiti thumbs through photographs of her daughters overseas, her eyes lingering on features she has not seen in years. Sending ageing family members to a retirement home was once unthinkable for most Syrians, but...

Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis visited Tehran on Tuesday where he met with Iranian First Vice-President Ishaq Jahangiri, the latter said in an official press statement.  Speaking at a joint news conference, Khamis said Syria had stood by Iran during the latter’s eight-year war with...

Syrians in northwestern Idlib cast their ballots on Tuesday for members of the first civilian council to run their city, two years after it was overrun by rebels and extremists. Government forces were expelled from Idlib city in March 2015 by the Army of Conquest, led by the Fateh al-Sham...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful PYD militia on Tuesday has freed senior official in the political National Kurdish Council after 5 months of detention in the northeastern city of Qamishli, fellow official said. Engineer Mohamed Ismail was kidnapped by the Kurdish Democratic Party during a funeral of...

Syria's U.N. ambassador will head the government delegation to upcoming peace talks, a Syrian daily reported Tuesday, while the opposition said it would be represented by rebel negotiator Mohammad Alloush. Talks on the nearly six-year-old conflict, organised by Turkey, Russia and Iran, are...

 Iran will be granted a licence to become a mobile service operator in Syria under agreements to expand economic ties between the countries. Five memorandums of understanding were signed at a ceremony attended by Syrian Prime Minister Emad Khamis and Iranian Vice President Eshaq...

At least 20 Daesh terrorists were killed in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, according to a Turkish General Staff statement early Tuesday. Turkish jets conducted air operations against 10 Daesh targets including sniper positions and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army has mobilized thousands of troops west of Damascus, seeking to defeat rebels in strategic Wadi Barada valley, where the capital's main water supply has been bombed out of service, sources said Tuesday. The deployment come as rebel groups decide to attend...

 The gunman suspected of killing 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day has been caught in the city's Esenyurt district, the Hurriyet newspaper website and other media reports said on Tuesday. The reports could not be confirmed; but Hurriyet said the man, who media quoted...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Monday took three villages from ISIS near the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, sources said. The SDF captured villages of Traikiya, Bayoud, and al-Takmani in the western countryside. Backed by the the U.S.-led...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian doctors have started a-6-week training course in Turkey, in health centres allocated to train Syrian doctors on the Turkish health system in southern Turkish provinces “Hatai, Mersin and Urfa” where high numbers of Syrians live there.  The training courses are...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed 7 people in the besieged northern countryside of central Homs province in a new violation for the nationwide ceasefire, local reporter said Monday. The regime warplanes hit the towns of Talbiseh  and villages of Ezzieddin, Deir Foul and...

Islamic State has launched its fiercest assault in a year against a besieged Syrian regime enclave in the city of Deir al-Zor, trying to cut it off from a nearby military air base in a battle that has killed dozens. A regime military source said the fighting was intense. "This attack is one of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior official in the Syrian National Coalition said the key opposition group would witness substantial reforms in the upcoming General Assembly conference next February that will be surprising for many parties. The reforms will widen the robe of the old-fashioned body...

(Eqtsad)- The northern town of Sarmada at the Turkish border has turned a commercial hub due to the strategic position near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. According to the 2008 population census, Sarmada’s inhabitants numbered 15,000 persons. A large number of the town’s population worked...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian opposition's National Coalition delivered a political road-map last November to Donald Trump's Mideast adviser, stressing that protecting civilians and fighting the Islamic State will end up in a new Syria without Bashar al-Assad, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  The...

Syrian rebel groups have decided to attend peace talks backed by Russia and Turkey in Kazakhstan to press for implementation of a widely violated ceasefire, rebel officials said on Monday, in a boost for Moscow-led diplomacy. Rebel groups took the decision at meetings that are underway in...

 A South African photojournalist has been kidnapped in northern Syria while working for aid group Gift of the Givers, the charity said. Shiraaz Mohamed, from Johannesburg, was taken by unidentified armed men on Tuesday as he tried to leave the country with other members of the group...

Russia plans to improve and expand its naval and air bases in Syria, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed source, as Moscow cements its presence in the Middle Eastern country, its only overseas military deployment. The source told Interfax that Russia will start...