Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said. Some buses, as well as Red Crescent vehicles, reached...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ghadir, a young girl from the Damascus northeastern suburb of Douma, had had her right leg amputated by regime’s shelling, in the same time she lost her mother and three brothers. Moreover, after having a prostheses fixed, she was injured by cluster bombs hit Douma. Ghadir...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took Saturday 10 villages and farms from ISIS near al-Tabaqa in Raqqa province, The U.S.-backed group said in statement . SDF that led by Democratic Union Party (PYD) siad it had captured villages of Bur Sinjar Shamali, Bur Sinjar...

A number of Islamist rebel groups in the Syrian town of Termanin, northern Idlib province, announced a new merger to unify rebel factions on Saturday. In a brief statement seen by The New Arab, the town’s rebel groups said: “we the military factions in the city of Termanin announce our unity...

A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria's east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two villages besieged by insurgents. A Syrian rebel official and a government...

At least 38 ISIS fighters have been killed in U.S.-led coalition air strikes this week near Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said on Saturday. The militants retook Palmyra in central Syria on December 11, just eight months after the army backed by Russia drove them out. On...

(Al-Monitor)- In November, Syrian refugee Anas Amir Mohammed Agha Qatarji opened a restaurant in the market of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. He named it Jar al-Qalaa II, in memory of Jar al-Qalaa, the restaurant he ran in Aleppo’s Old City before it was destroyed during the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 army officers from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed since the beginning of December in Palmyra and Aleppo battlefields, source in the military police told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 9 senior officers as many fellows still missing, source...

(New York Times)- For months, the bodies have been piling up in eastern Aleppo as the buildings have come down, pulverized by Syrian and Russian jets, burying residents who could not flee in avalanches of bricks and mortar. And now it is almost over, not because diplomats reached a deal in...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asked Syria's warring parties to quickly agree on a plan to evacuate people from east Aleppo and provide "solid" safety guarantees of Saturday, a day after the evacuation stalled Friday. "We're ready to resume facilitating the evacuation...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian social media accounts circulated images of an identity card for displaced persons who have guarantors from the town of Jarjanaz in Idlib countryside. The identity card, which came into use based on the cooperation of the town Local Council and the Free Jarjanaz Police...

Fresh photos have showed the presence of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani during the evacuation of civilians trapped in war-battered Aleppo city in northern Syria. Earlier this week, Syrian opposition forces in eastern Aleppo reached a ceasefire deal with President...

An agreement was reached Saturday to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were suspended a day earlier, Hezbollah's media arm and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The doctors and staff in al-Assad Hospital in coastal Latakia city are pursuing a policy of loot as hospital will be turned over to the regime Ministry of Defense in 2 January 2017 based on al-Assad’s decision issued in the last week of November. Social media pages and...

The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after pro-government militias demanded that wounded people should also be brought out of two Shi'ite villages being besieged by rebel fighters. The second day of the operation to take...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's chief opposition coordinator will not meet with regime representatives in the planned peace talks in Kazakhstan over a Russian attempt to make a political gains along with capture of eastern Aleppo, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. Riad Hijab said on Monday that...

"It was the final time I saw Aleppo." Among a sea of sobbing men and hungry children Friday, Mohammad mourned his evacuation from his home town and Syria's second city. "It was catastrophic... I was kicked out of my homeland," the university professor told AFP in English at a staging ground...

Syrian regime claimed that a seven-year-old girl carrying a belt of explosives had rocked a police station in southeast Damascus on Friday, such a claim has been condemned by activists and opposition.  The explosion in the bustling Midan neighborhood of the Syrian capital wounded three...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of rebel-held areas throughout Syria went to streets on Friday, expressing solidarity with east Aleppo and condemning the brutal offensive that claims lives of hundreds of people. Demonstrations in many areas in Syria demanded military factions to unite and end the...

More than 50 wounded civilians from Aleppo, many in serious condition, have been transferred to Turkey for treatment, the Turkish Red Crescent said Friday. The transfers came as rebel areas of Syria's war-torn second city were being evacuated in a massive operation which began Thursday but...