(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed opposition has submitted a draft of four points to Turkey before attending the planned Astana talks on Jan.23, demanding an immediate halt to the regime’s attacks on civilians and to stop committing ceasefire violations in the Wadi Barada region west of capital...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Israeli warplanes late on Thursday have conducted 8 airstrikes on Damascus' Mezzeh military airport , destroying ammunition depots, activists said. Israel has used its F-35 fighters jets for the first time in hitting Syrian targets. Conflicting reports said Israel...

A powerful blast caused by a suicide bomber hit a heavily policed district of the capital on Thursday with at least seven killed, a police source told state television. The source was quoted by state television as saying a suicide bomber blew himself in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman has been killed in regime aerial bombing on the northern countryside of Hama province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce , activists said Thursday. The strikes targeted the town of Alltamneh and the villages of al-Zallaqiyat, Qastal and Rasm al-Abed, residents...

A leading Syrian opposition figure on Wednesday called on the UN to stop the Assad regime from committing ceasefire and human rights violations in the Wadi Barada region west of capital Damascus. Riyad Hijab, chief coordinator for Syria’s opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), sent a...

Syria's cessation of hostilities is largely holding but there are some exceptions and humanitarian aid is still not getting in to besieged areas where food is running out, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. He told reporters that 23 buses and Syrian drivers, used in recent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia allowed dozens of families to return back to their homes in al-Arbeyn village in al-Hasaka province after two years of displacement where each family paid 50,000 Syrian Pounds, local activists said. A local activist, who spoke on condition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians, including 4 children,  have been killed in Russian air strikes hit the western countryside f Aleppo province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce, local reporter said Thursday. The Russian warplanes hit an apartment complex in Babka town...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces have encircled around 45  ISIS-held villages northwest of the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, local activists said Wednesday. Backed by the the U.S.-led airstrikes, the SDF alliance took villages of Karmanji and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Wednesday hit vehicles carrying fighters of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham in in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing 11 people, field sources said. The third attack in a week on the formerly known as Nusra Front has left two senior...

A Syrian provincial governor said on Wednesday the government and rebels had agreed on a plan to repair damage to a spring in the Wadi Barada area that supplies water to the capital, state television reported. The report could not be immediately confirmed with rebel fighters. The local media...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed source said the head of air intelligence Jamil al-Hassan was behind the damage of the capital’s main water supply two weeks ago. The de facto first commander in Syria who controls the aerial bombing campaign had ordered regime warplanes to conduct...

Government aircraft pounded rebels and their extremist allies in northern Syria overnight, activists said Wednesday, as Moscow announced new peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan on Jan. 23. Air raids targeted the rebel strongholds of Atarib and Khan al-Assal in Aleppo province, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The aerial bombing on the besieged northern countryside of Homs province killed 338 people in 2016, Civil Defense said Tuesday. The rescuing group that operates in rebel-held areas said the regime warplanes backed by key ally Russia had conducted 895 raids in 2016, leaving 71...

(Al-Monitor)- Many Syrians who have lived through the six years of the Syrian civil war have been forced to change their work, study or specialty fields as they have been displaced from their hometowns. Some young Syrians have been highly innovative and displayed excellence in their new...

(Memri)- On January 8, 2017, the media office of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Al-Khayr province, Syria, released a video showing children beheading and shooting men accused of spying for the Kurds. The video, titled "He Revived Me With His Blood," was posted on the ISIS-affiliated leading jihadi...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said in new report the Syrian regime helicopters had dropped 12,958 barrel bombs in 2016 on rebel-held areas throughout Syria. Most of these barrel bombs were dropped in Damascus suburbs, followed by Aleppo and then Hama, Idlib, Daraa, and Homs....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS on Tuesday has recaptured an ancient citadel from U.S.-backed militias in its stronghold of Raqqa province, after five days since it had been seized by the Kurdish-led alliance, activists and the Islamic State accounts said. The Jabar citadel on the banks of Lake...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its political arm the PYD will not be invited to planned peace talks in Kazakhstan, a PYD official said on Tuesday, an outcome that would leave a key player in the conflict off the negotiating table. Syria's government and rebel forces started a ceasefire...

 More than 20 civilians were killed in a B-52 strike carried out by the US on the northern Idlib province in Syria on January 3, according to Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. Gerasimov slammed the Western coalition in Syria for failing to achieve “any meaningful...