(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions thwarted Saturday regime attack on Hanano district in the besieged Eastern Aleppo, killing 15 soldiers, local reporter said. On Friday, regime forces pressed slow advances inside the district after more than 200 raids where toxic gas was used against...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Head of the Syrian Tribal Committee, al-Sheikh Thamir Moutab al-Shalash, confirmed that the regime is trying to replicate the Iraqi experience by forming The People's Mobilization Forces from mercenary in the Syrian Jazira area. A group of tribal members from its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Police forces of rebel-held Aleppo province have gained appreciation after being a respected guardian to people property and public facilities despite lack of funds and security challenges. Police of Liberated Aleppo has started working in the beginning of 2016, aiming to...

Airstrikes and rockets in northern Syria knocked out two medical centers dedicated to women Friday and killed at least 12, including two people in one of the health facilities, according to opposition activists, a charity group and a hospital manager. Warplanes and artillery shelling also...

As Syria's regime presses a fierce assault on eastern Aleppo, its siege is making life ever harder for civilians who being forced to sift through garbage for food and scavenge firewood from bombed-out buildings. With winter setting in, shortages of food, medicine and fuel coupled with intense...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dr. Hussein al-Sibrani, a former political prisoner in the Syrian regime prisons for 10 years, has been working in clinic in Zatari camp, trying to forget 10 years he had lost of his life in prison. He at the moment lives in the Jordanian city of Irbid, 100 k away from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces based in the southern Damascus suburbs of Sidi Maqdad have been imposing royalties on the people of the next-door towns of Babila and Bait Sahem for allowing the entry of basic food staples, local reporter said.  The prices of basic items of food and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYD militia launched arrest campaign to against journalists and media activists in northeastern city of Hasaka, sources said.   Omar Kojari, Editor of Kurdistan Newspaper told Zaman al-Wasl that Sardar Dari, correspondent of Walat-FM radio, has been abducted by a...

The inhabitants of besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo have fewer than ten days to receive aid or face starvation and death from a lack of medical supplies, the head of the Syria Civil Defence, or "White Helmets", said on Thursday. The volunteer group which works in opposition-held territory...

At least 32 civilians, including five children, were killed Thursday in Syrian regime air strikes and artillery bombardment on rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo, a monitor said citing a new toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday's toll, up from an earlier figure of 16...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked recording of the Sheikh of the al-Baggara tribe, Nawaf al-Bashir, revealed statements he made supporting the regime and complimenting it, and others attacking the opposition and cursing it.  In the recording al-Bashir said, “From 2012 I have no relationship...

(The Guardian)- A group of unaccompanied Syrian teenagers who have sought safety in the UK have made an impassioned plea for Britons to accept them “with open arms, not with racism and hate” and help hundreds of other minors who are stuck in France. Omar, a 16-year-old Syrian who arrived in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 46 regime soldiers and allied militants have been killed by Syrian rebels in coastal Latakia province as regime forces launch major attack on Jabal al-Turkman, pro-Assad activists said, accusing Turkish army of hitting army strongholds. The regime forces backed by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime stepped up its aerial bombing on the rebel-held Idlib province, leaving huge destruction, local activist said Thursday. Idlib Media Center said the strikes targeted villages of Maer Shamarin, Deri Sharqi, Kinda and al-Najiya and al-Tamaneh town. On Wednesday, 4...

An air strike thought to have been carried out by Syrian regime forces killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 10 others overnight, one of them seriously, the Turkish military said on Thursday. The attack occurred at around 3:30 am (0030 GMT) in the course of a Turkish-led Syrian rebel...

The European Union is looking into whether Russian tankers carried jet fuel to Syria through the bloc's waters despite this being banned, an EU source said on Wednesday. The shipments to Syria bolstered military supplies to a country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes on rebels in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes have mistakenly killed 2 NDF militants and wounded 14 more in strikes hit the gas field of al-Shaer near the ancient city of Palmyra, social media accounts said Tuesday. Sweida-24, Facebook page, quoted an NDF source as saying that the Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people have been killed in regime air strikes pounding the southern province of Daraa, local activists said Wednesday.  The aerial bombing targeted a crowded street in the town of Jasem, leaving 8 people dead. The strikes have also hit towns of Dael, Nawa,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Furat University Administration in Hasaka city said Wednesday it will resume work in its faculties in the city after reaching an agreement with Kurdish Asayish and YPG militias. The aim of the agreement is to neutralize faculties from any fights between them and regime...

Syrian pro-government forces have pushed deeper into rebel-held eastern Aleppo, forcing civilians to flee to southern neighbourhoods to escape the onslaught as the regime pressed an assault to recapture the entire city. Recapturing east Aleppo would be the government's biggest victory yet in...