Syria's foreign minister said Thursday there was a "real chance" to reach a political settlement to the Syrian conflict, after Damascus's ally Russia announced a ceasefire deal that was to take effect at midnight. "It is the duty of the factions (rebel groups) who have signed it to distance...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime forces on Thursday have continued their ground and aerial campaign on the villages of Wadi Barada valley northwest of the capital for the ninth day where about 100,000 civilians live in deteriorating living conditions. Local activists said more than 60-barrel...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces took new ground from the Islamic State in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said in statement Wednesday. The SDF fighters captured Haddaj village after two days of clashes with ISIS. The ongoing advance...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources in the Syrian opposition's main political body denied news of an imminent ceasefire agreement between regime and rebel factions. Sources close to Riad Hijab, general coordinator for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said no ceasefire draft had...

Two mortar bombs were fired at the Russian Embassy in Damascus Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said, adding that no casualties or damage had been caused. "From 1 p.m. to 1:19 p.m. Moscow time (1000 GMT to 1019 GMT), the Russian Embassy was bombarded by terrorists. One mortar bomb,...

Syria would be divided into informal zones of regional power influence and Bashar al-Assad would remain president for at least a few years under an outline deal between Russia, Turkey and Iran, sources say. Such a deal, which would allow regional autonomy within a federal structure controlled...

Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies are expected to approve a blueprint for a system of federal government in northern Syria this week, Kurdish officials said, reaffirming their plans for autonomy as Russia and Turkey seek to revive diplomacy. The aim is to cement the autonomy of...

Reporting by Mohamed Kassah (Eqtsad)- The Syrian regime forces on Wednesday have continued their ground and aerial campaign on the villages of Wadi Barada valley northwest of the capital for the sixth day where about 100,000 civilians live in deteriorating living conditions. The regime...

Reporting by Abdulsalam haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- The year 2016 was the harshest and most severe on the people of Lattakia’s countryside since the start of the revolution.  They migrated from the countryside and the regime occupied 85% of the countryside with support from Russian...

Airstrikes carried out by unidentified aircraft killed at least 22 civilians, including 10 children, in a village held by ISIS in eastern Syria, activists said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were from two families at Hojna in Deir Ezzor, which borders...

(The Daily Star)- A number of Syrians refugees from Aleppo who live in Lebanon say they will not return home for the time being and the security situation still dictates their timetable, even after the regime retook the country’s second city. For the families that spoke to The Daily Star since...

The Syrian opposition's main political body on Tuesday urged rebel groups to cooperate with "sincere regional efforts" to reach a ceasefire but said it had not been invited to any conference, referring to a meeting in Kazakhstan proposed by Russia. Riad Hijab, general...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey to recruit Syrian young refugees as police and security units in ISIS-freed areas near the Turkish borders, sources said Tuesday. Sources from the camps of Islahiya1 and Islahiya 2, in Gaziantep city said Turkish government announced via the camps’ microphone that...

Russia said on Tuesday that a U.S. decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, a move it said would directly threaten Russian forces in Syria. Moscow last year launched a campaign of air strikes in Syria to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Main rebel council in southern Daraa province, in statement issued Tuesday, rebuffed regime calls for reconciliations and laying arms down. The Free Daraa Council that governs rebel-held areas in the border province with Jordan said Daraa will stay the cradle of the Syrian...

Kurdish-led fighters are approaching a strategic dam controlled by ISIS in northern Syria after days of fighting that killed a senior ISIS military commander, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed forces and others said Tuesday. Talal Sillo of the Syria Democratic Forces said the fighters,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A least 20 people, mostly of one family, have been killed in regime air strikes on the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor city, local activists said Tuesday. Activists Abdulmalek al-Ali said the family members who fled Hasaka province were all passed away in regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent commander of Ahrar al-Sham movement warned that the revolution is at crossing point and a decisive stage, where commanders’ decisions are extremely crucial, as no mistakes and experiments are allowed at this crucial period. Labib al-Nahas, head of the office of...

When surgeon Mounir Hakimi operated on five-month-old Maram in the Syrian province of Idlib last week, the horrific extent of her injuries quickly became clear. "She lost both her parents in an air strike, has multiple fractures, a wound in her abdomen, and has lost lots of skin,"...

The Syrian army escalated aerial bombing of a rebel-held valley northwest of Damascus in an offensive begun last week to recapture the strategic area where a major spring provides most of the capital's water supplies, rebels and residents said Tuesday. They said the army shelled and...