Syrian refugees in Lebanon are "barely coping", with half of children out of school and more families falling into poverty, a UN study has found. Some 1.5 million Syrians seeking refuge in Lebanon remain highly vulnerable, even after three years of living there, and their economic situation...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS launched Saturday major attack on U.S.-backed militias north of its stronghold of Raqqa province, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the western countryside, local activists said. Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military police clashed with residents of al-Da'tour neighborhood in coastal Latakia city who refuse to join the army and its backed militias, eye-witnesses said. The poor neighborhood that inhabits by the Murshidis sect, a tiny minority diverted from the Bashar...

The Syrian regime on Saturday decided a plan of works to restore services, industry and security to the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo, state media reported. Aleppo, split into a government-held west and rebel-held east since the early days of the almost six-year Syrian conflict, became...

(The Guardian)- Fatima, a jolly-looking woman in a sparkly grey jumper and tightly wrapped headscarf that accentuates her round, smiley face, laughs as she shows me into her living room in Manchester, which is comfortable even though the family moved in just a fortnight ago. She offers me nuts...

A large explosion in the busy center of the rebel-held town of Azaz near border with Turkey killed around 50 people and wounded dozens on Saturday, local reporter, and activists said. At least 50 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the blast in front of a courthouse in the northern town...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian camps in the town of Arsal witnessed in the last weeks of 2016 a wave of assassinations and kidnapping which activists are describing as planned and pre-meditated. This wave began by targeting the Syrian medical staff working in the town to take a new form as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime launched this week a wide arrest campaign including the civil employees in the northeastern province of Hasaka, local activists said.  The regime campaign came as the Democratic Union Party threatened to destroy any militia that is not subordinate to it....

A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached between rebels and government forces in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus, where bombardments have knocked out the capital's main water source. The government and allied fighters from the Lebanese group...

A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus where government forces and their allies are fighting rebels. Munir Sayal, head of the political wing of the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group, told Reuters the report...

The U.S.-based coalition has killed a senior ISIS facilitator in an airstrike in the extremists' self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, the U.S. military command in the region said Friday. CENTCOM identified the target as Mahmud al-Isawi, an ISIS operative who managed instructions and...

U.S.-backed militias in Syria have captured an ancient citadel from Islamic State in a strategically significant advance against the jihadist group in its stronghold of Raqqa province, a spokesman said on Friday. The Jabar citadel on the banks of Lake Assad was captured by the Syrian...

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has said two mediators were involved in the case of the ISIS-abducted Lebanese soldiers, one of whom is in Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian stronghold of Raqqa. Ibrahim revealed in remarks to Al-Joumhouria newspaper Friday that the first negotiator was in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists said displaced people living in coastal city of Jableh have been suffering sectarian abuses since at least 27 people were killed in a car blast on Thursday. Residents of the Alawite-sect-dominated city have accused the displaced, who fled conflict areas to the...

The Syrian army and its allies pressed ahead Friday with a two-week-long offensive to seize a strategic valley where a key spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital, Damascus, residents and rebels said. Aerial bombing and shelling from the army as well as Hezbollah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime and its Iran-backed allies step up aerial bombing on the rebel-held Aleppo province despite a ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and Turkey 6 days ago, local reporter said. The pro-regime Iranian and Iraqi militias have positioned near Khanaser town in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 ISIS fighters were killed on Thursday when a fighter from Jabahat Fateh al-Sham opened fire on their checkpoint in the Yarmouk Camp south of the capital, source said. The attack had been followed by sporadic clashes between the ex-al-Qaeda affiliate group and ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Thursday thwarted ISIS major attack on two villages near Euphrates dam northeastern Syria after three days of fierce fighting amid reports of heavy losses from both sides, the U.S. backed group. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters...

Gray is a dying town, its residents lament. Big businesses have moved away, taking jobs with them. Though it still lives up to its nickname "Gray la jolie," or "Gray the pretty," many stores now lie vacant, with fading "to rent" signs in their windows. But for one Syrian family, the...

Syria is prepared for "open battle" against insurgents in the province where Damascus has been allowing them to gather under ceasefire deals, said the government official in charge of negotiations that have seen rebels yield swathes of territory. The past year has seen President Bashar...