In Syria’s Wadi Barada valley, the six days since a nationwide cease-fire was declared have only brought more bombs. Residents say the bombs have rained down daily, deepening the misery caused by a government-imposed siege that has emptied market shelves and left residents relying on wood...

At least nine people were killed in a car blast Thursday in the center of the Syrian town of Jableh in the coastal Mediterranean province of Latakia where two Russian bases are located, state television said. State media said scores of cars were on fire and shops were also damaged by...

Syrian pro-regime forces clashed with rebels around the main water source for Damascus Thursday, activists said, threatening a fragile ceasefire as it entered its seventh day. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS arrested three members of Syria Democratic Forces on Wednesday after a suicide attack in Hasaka province as the White Fan group returned to target Kurdish politicians and activists in the northern countryside, local sources reported. The ISIS attack hit one of...

(The Daily Star)- Calling themselves “The Homsies,” a group of Syrian teenagers in north Lebanon’s Akkar are using their musical talents to send a message of peace – and at the same time to help improve the lives of refugees. “If there is one thing everyone does, it’s listen to music. So this...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu)- At least 38 ISIS militants, including senior commander, have been killed in northern Aleppo province in the last 24 hours as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield to capture the group's stronghold of al-Bab city, Turkish army said Thursday. Free Syrian Army...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS is prepared to support Turkish forces battling the fighters in northern Syria, a U.S. military official said Wednesday. Turkey has asked for such assistance from the coalition but none has been forthcoming so far. Colonel John Dorrian, speaking via...

(The Telegraph)- Sitting in her family’s new apartment in Turkey, Fatemah al-Abed still cannot believe they made it out of Aleppo alive.  She had feared government forces would wreak revenge on her and her daughter Bana, the seven-year-old girl whose tweets provided a window for...

Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the Syrian city. In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district,...

The United States carried out an airstrike in Syria that reportedly killed at least 25 members of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, including senior figures, a U.S. military official said Wednesday. "This was a U.S. strike," said Colonel John Dorrian, a U.S. military spokesman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition's main political body to hold meeting in Riyadh next week to discuss the ongoing nationwide ceasefire and the upcoming Astana peace talks, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to convene next Tuesday amid discords...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The unspoken cooperation between powerful Kurdish PYD militia and regime forces led to retrieving of two regime officers’ bodies who were killed  three years and half ago in Aleppo province. Zaman al-Wasl local reporter said regime had retrieved two pilots’ bodies;...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The first signs of the American occupation of the oil-rich areas in Hasaka province were clear in 2016, after the expansion of its ally Democratic Union Party (PYD) that surprisingly moved from calling for Self- Administration to “federal system”, moreover, it allowed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Secretary General of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) affirmed that the main opposition group is now drafting a new strategy in coordination with Higher Committee for Negotiations clarifying that the work is ongoing to form a military body to include all moderate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish helicopters on Tuesday bombed many military sites of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) northeastern Syria, local activists said. Activist Malaz al-Yusuf reported that unknown helicopters have bombed many sites of PYD’s militias like YPG, Women’s Protection Units...

Instead of bombs there were beats. Guitars took over for guns, and there were cheers, not screams. Still, Aleppo was never far from the minds of the band Musiqana and the crowd at its record-release concert in Berlin. “I didn’t know if I should cry or be happy,” said Syrian-born Samaa Hijazi, a...

Residents of Damascus are scrambling for clean water after the government attacked rebels holding the city's main source in a nearby valley, leading to an accidental outage that has stretched on for nearly two weeks. The cut-off is a major challenge to the government's effort throughout...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Tuesday pressed new advances in the northern countryside of Raqqa city, taking three villages from ISIS after fierce fighting, the U.S. backed group said. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters took villages of al-Dahlan, Arir and...

 A suspected U.S.-led airstrike on Tuesday killed at least 30 members of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front including senior figures, an activist group said. Unidentified aircraft "hit a major base of Fateh al-Sham near to the town of Sarmada" in the northwestern province of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl continued in its editorial policies during 2016 to include all Syrian land be it under regime control or areas under control of Syrian resistance by covering developments through a network of editors and reporters who follow one of the fiercest wars in the...