The Syrian regime army and its allies captured Sheikh Saeed district in Aleppo in overnight fighting, a war monitor and a Syrian official said early on Monday, amid the most intense bombardment in days, leaving insurgents in only a tiny pocket of the city. Sheikh Saeed lies in the south...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian NGOs announced the birth of Syrian Civil Society Platform aiming at enhancing freedom, justice, equality, tolerance and pluralism. The platform which was founded in Istanbul in Turkey consists of 11 local platforms in 11 Syrian provinces; 3 in neighboring countries...

Syrian rebels have received a U.S.-backed proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians under safe passage guaranteed by Russia, rebel officials said as government forces closed in on Sunday, but Moscow denied a deal had been reached. If the proposal were to be taken up by all sides, it...

Performing Puccini to a rapt New York audience, her soprano voice soaring to the rafters, Lubana Al Quntar may be the last person most Americans would think to be a Syrian refugee. But half-an-hour’s drive from Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, she and dozens of other classically trained...

All children in Syria's battered Aleppo are suffering from trauma after enduring some of the worst violence in their country's war, the UN children's agency said on Sunday. "All children in Aleppo are suffering. All are traumatised," Radoslaw Rzehak, UNICEF's field office head in Aleppo,...

The Syrian army and its allies made new gains in Aleppo on Sunday, forcing rebels back into an ever shrinking pocket crammed with civilians, but lost control of the desert city of Palmyra to a swift Islamic State attack. Final victory in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the civil war,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians, including two children and Civil Defense worker, killed on Sunday in regime missile attack hit the city of Douma, northeastern Damascus, local monitor group said. The unified Media office in Eastern Ghouta suburbs said the the regime uses surface-to-surface...

The Syrian regime army and its allies advanced on Sunday in southeast Aleppo and a rebel official said insurgents face "death or surrender" in an ever smaller enclave, with large numbers of civilians under very fierce bombardment. Russian and U.S. officials are meeting in Geneva on Sunday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The Russian and regime warplanes on Sunday extended its aerial bombing on the rebel-held province of Idlib, killing five people in the town of Maaret al-Nu’man and wounding several others in the southern countryside. Idlib Media Center explained that the warplanes launched...

 ISIS fighters have captured Palmyra castle overlooking the ancient city in eastern Syria, a news agency affiliated to the militants said Sunday. Heavy Russian airstrikes had pushed back the militants from inside the city hours after they captured it last Saturday in a surprise...

When President Bashar al-Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The expected fall of Aleppo would mean...

Russian air strikes forced Islamic State fighters to retreat to the outskirts of Palmyra on Sunday, a day after they had stormed the ancient city in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The militants were now fighting in orchards on the fringe of Palmyra, the British-based Syrian Observatory...

Fierce fighting and heavy bombardment saw more than 10,000 people flee rebel-held areas of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo since midnight, activists said Sunday. "More than 10,000 people have fled remaining rebel-held southeastern districts of Aleppo city since midnight due to heavy...

Islamic State militants on Saturday captured most of Palmyra after breaking through regime army defenses and securing the heights around the ancient city in eastern Syria following a surprise assault, a monitoring group and rebels said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thirteen female detainees have been released due to a prisoner swap deal with the Syrian regime, local reporter said Saturday. The women, who arrived the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs, were detained by the notorious Air Force Intelligence.   In its turn, Faylaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s negotiation representative offers rebel factions in in the southern Damascus suburbs to stay on condition of joining the National Defense Forces, or they must leave the area by 20th of December. A well-informed source reported to Zaman al-Wasl that a meeting...

( SNHR )- On December 9, 2013, a group of gunmen stormed the offices of the Violations Documentation Center in Syria in Douma, Damascus countryside and abducted Razan Zaitouneh and three other activists: Samira Khalil, Nazim Hamada and Wael Hamada. Their whereabouts is still unknown, which...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights issued a special report on the anniversary of the kidnapping of four human rights activists, “Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamadeh, Nazem Hamadeh, and Samira Khalil.” The four were kidnapped after an unknown group stormed the Center for...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS says it has shot down a Syrian regime warplane near the historic city of Palmyra as the radical group launched major offensive to take oil-rich areas in eastern Homs province. The group's Aamaq news agency said Saturday that the militants downed the jet near the...

The Syrian army said it has sent reinforcements to Palmyra, where Islamic State fighters have advanced to its outskirts in some of the heaviest fighting since the group lost the historic city earlier this year. The group had taken over areas to the northwest and southeast of Palmyra, and...