The men receive a hero's welcome as they step off the green buses in Syria's Idlib province with guns slung over their shoulders, having been forced to leave besieged and bombarded towns and cities as part of local truce deals with the government in Damascus. For more than two years...

A U.S.-backed assault on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria, is unlikely to pierce the city itself before President Barack Obama leaves office in January, denying him the chance to claim the end of the group's "caliphate" as part of his legacy. Although a U.S.-backed alliance of...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Two people were killed and two others were injured following regime force shelling on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood the last of the revolutionary strongholds in Homs city.  The local coordination council reported that the regime forces shelled the neighborhood...

A Syrian opposition leader said opposition groups don’t need to recruit foreign fighters in their fight against the Bashar al-Assad regime in war-torn Syria. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Osama Rifai, the head of the Syrian Islamic Council, called for providing all forms of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl news site mourns its local reporter in Idlib province, Ammar Bakour, who lost his life on Sunday in regime air strikes on the town of al-Dana. Bakour passed away with 8 civilians when the regime warplanes rocked the the town with 4 vacuum missiles. The...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Regime forces targeted a children’s nursery in town of Harasta in Damascus countryside with mortar rockets. Reports from the area indicate that five children so far were killed and dozens injured in the attack including a Civil Defense volunteer who was rescuing the...

(Zaman al-Wasl) A group of factions in Hama’s northern countryside announced the establishment of a join operation room. They released a statement, “An operation room was formed including Hama’s northern countryside to counter the enemy.” The operation room includes Jaish al-Nasar, Jaish...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Electricity blackout continues in the city of Latakia and most of the cities and countryside of Latakia province since Friday evening, following the Syrian resistance targeting the Mahardah power station which provides the province with electricity.  The activist...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Document 25618 from the military intelligence documents was stamped with the phrase “highly confidential,” although most Syrians are familiar with the document’s content. On the date 29/09/2009, the military intelligence branch in Idlib (branch 271) directed this document to the...

With the deftness of decades of experience, Abu Mohammad wove thick green thread with a wooden loom in northwest Syria, creating a vibrant geometric pattern renowned among Arabic textiles. It was the last day before the weaver in his 50s would be forced to close the workshop, leaving the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 ISIS fighters have been killed by coalition airstrikes and clashes with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in northern Aleppo province, the Turkish Armed Forces said Saturday. Aircraft from the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition killed eight terrorists in five strikes in...

(Independent)- Of the Syrians, I have had it easy. Yes, I was jailed both by the Syrian government and later in Lebanon. Yes, I lost all my worldly possessions and have been separated from my family for four years. But I am a lucky one. I say that because due to my persecution by Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions liberated Saturday Shalyout checkpoint near Mahrdeh in Hama western countryside whereas warplanes raided several villages in Hama northern countryside, activists said. Activists said Syrian resistance launched a fierce attack on regime forces and...

At least 20 civilians have been killed and dozens injured in the past twenty-four hour of bombing, following Russian air-strikes in West Aleppo and its surrounding areas. A squadron of Russian war planes bombed a number of villages and residential areas in "revenge" missions, following a...

(Eqtsad) It is called green Idlib due to the large number of olive trees planted in it. Idlib province is located south west of Aleppo city in the north of Syria. It is situated 60 kilometers away from Aleppo city, 132 kilometers away from Latakia city, 330 kilometers away from Damascus, 168...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian regime soldiers killed and others injured in clashes between two regime militias in Hasaka on Thursday whereas Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) armed man was injured by a bomb in Gwayran neighborhood south of Hasaka, activists said. Acitivst Abdul Malek al-Ali...

  (Eqtsad)- Mohamed, a pseudonym, is a Syrian refugee in France. He thinks that he indirectly ate a whole pig and also he ate a significant amount of non-halal meat. He also drank without knowing at least two bottles of alcohol and gambled when his friend asked him for the first time to...

Syrian rebels and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo on Friday, despite a Russian deadline to resume bombing Syria's largest city at nightfall after a 17-day pause. The rebels' own shelling of residential parts of government-held western Aleppo...

Iran-run PressTV reported that a close source to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday that 19-year-old Kassem Shamkha was killed the previous day by the Syrian resistance west of the embattled city of Aleppo. The late midfielder used to play for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian woman has stabbed two of her children to death in Germany, shocking the nation, that still remembering the previous two murders, one is killing a woman and her two daughters and the other for a father who threw his 3 children from the window. Media in Germany...