(Zaman Al Wasl)- Armed members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) broke up a demonstration organized by the Kurdish National Council in the city of Qamishli in al-Hasakah’s countryside on Friday.  Demonstrators were demanding the release of several Kurdish political prisoners. ...

 A senior Syrian opposition official accused Russia on Friday of procrastinating in talks with rebels over Aleppo, signaling no progress in diplomacy which rebels hoped would ease dire conditions in the city where they are in danger of defeat. Buoyed by its rapid capture of several whole...

Syrian regime forces have recaptured half the former rebel stronghold of east Aleppo, a monitor said Friday, in an offensive that has left bodies in streets and sparked global outrage. Rebels put up fierce resistance in the southeastern outskirts of the battered city, but government forces...

This week, France and Germany will be honouring brave women and men who are fighting for the rights of others throughout the world. Maria da Penha from Brazil has used a wheelchair since being attacked by her husband in the 1970s, and now campaigns tirelessly for the protection of women...

Civilians are fleeing from one part of opposition-held eastern Aleppo to another amid a flurry of attacks by the Syrian regime, according to a local civil defense official. "Those we save today are killed tomorrow," Ammar Assalmo, an Aleppo-based civil defense official, told Anadolu Agency....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A rebel body in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs, in statement issued Friday, refused calls for reconciliation with the Syrian regime, urging to keep figh against regime and allied forces.  “We in the Eastern Ghouta are still carring our arms to liberate our...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Friday met with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley town of Barr Elias. Steinmeier arrived in Beirut at dawn for a one-day trip to Lebanon. UNHCR has registered some 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, but the Lebanese government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 2000 rebel fighters with their families to leave al-Tal, a northeastern suburb of Damascus on Friday, heading Idlib province after an evacuation deal reached early this week, local activists said. ‘Cleansing rebel pockets’ surrounding the capital as regime media says has been...

 More than 200 humanitarian and human rights groups called Thursday for the U.N. General Assembly to address Syria's deadly conflict, citing the Security Council's paralysis in dealing with the crisis. In a declaration published in New York, the 223 signatories said the Security...

(Sky News)- Russia and Syria are preventing essential humanitarian aid from reaching starving, sick civilians in east Aleppo, according to the United Nations. Around 200,000 people desperate for food and medical equipment remain trapped by fierce fighting in the rebel-held district of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 284 people killed in Idlib last November in regime aerial bombing on the rebel-held province, Idlib News Network reported . Figures published by Idlib News Network showed that 284 people were killed in November, included 66 children, 36 women, one journalist and 91...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish Authorities raided the office of the Syrian opposition's al-Ghad Movement in Gaziantep city over coordination claims with Kurdish YPG militia and other PYD leaders, sources said Thursday. The political movement is headed by Ahmed Jarba, the former president of the...

About 30,000 people are receiving aid after fleeing the besieged eastern zone of the Syrian city of Aleppo in the past few days, taking the total number of displaced people in the city to 400,000, U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. The U.N. has food for 150,000 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's rescuing group, the Civil Defense, said 54 people had been killed and 100 more wounded in al-Waer neighborhood and the embattled northern countryside of Homs last November. The Civil Defense in Homs documented that in November 54 people were killed, including 17...

Thousands of refugees and migrants will be relocated indoors from tent camps in Greece as temperatures fell below zero for the first time, the UN refugee agency said Thursday. The operation began Wednesday in the snow-covered foothills of Olympus, Greece's tallest mountain, to move around...

Rebels in Aleppo have agreed to form a new military alliance to better organize the defense of parts of the city they control from a ferocious assault by the government and its allies, officials in two of the insurgent groups said on Thursday. The Syrian government assault backed by allied...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Clashes continue between ISIS and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militias in Hasakah province announced death of 5 of its mercenaries who hold Turkish citizenship north of Raqqa. Kurdish sources said an American called Michael of Israel was killed during battles with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel factions fighting regime army and allied militias said to merge in one military group to defend the stricken neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo, local activists said as hundreds have been killed by the regime offensive and and about 250,000 are under imminent...

(Eqtsad)- Camps populations inside of Syria depend in making income on small projects which some have started inside the camps or by working with local and international NGOs. Others live on waste collection like plastic cans and others at a time where others wait for what NGOs offer from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said a Chinese military group is operating in the Russia-controlled Hmeimym air base in coastal Latakia province. The army unit includes officers, who are specialized in telecommunications and technical maintenance, to provide assistance to Russia, key...