Angela Merkel wants to get other European Union member countries to agree to step up sanctions against Russia because of its role in the war in Syria, a German newspaper cited sources close to the German chancellor as saying. The issue of sanctions is due to be discussed at an EU summit on...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- The regional manager of the Syrian General Body for Refugees, Moayad Shakir, directed a call to all local and foreign aid organizations working to quickly and urgently intervene to provide the support needed to the residents of Kula Sawa, (All of us...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels began an attack on Islamic State's symbolically potent stronghold of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, a rebel commander said, taking territory that has all but cut it off according to a war monitor. Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes killed 11 civilians in air strikes hit the town of Termanin in northern Idlib province, local activists said Saturday. The strikes have also targeted the city of Idlib and towns of al-Tamana'a, Khan Sheikhoun and Maaret al-Numan. In Homs province,...

A Syrian refugee arrested on suspicion of planning a major attack in Berlin spoke to a member of Islamic State in Syria by telephone about a possible target a day before police discovered explosives in his apartment, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Jaber Albakr was detained on Monday, two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians have been killed and 16 more wounded in regime air strikes on the besieged northern countryside of Homs city, local reporter said Saturday. The regime fighter jets conducted 8 raids on the towns of Talbiseh, al-Ghanto, Um Sharshouh and al-Farhaniya. The...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov returned to Syria talks on Saturday, three weeks after the failure of their painstakingly drafted ceasefire that many saw as the last hope for peace this year. Kerry has pointedly avoided new bilateral negotiations...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fastaqim Kama Umirt, key Syrian resistance faction, said Saturday its artillery detachment had targeted stronghold for Iran and Hezbollah Shiite militia in Aleppo city, killing 6 Iranian officers. The Union released a statement that its security office managed to identify the...

(Zaman al-Wasl) On Friday evening, in a unique occurrence, a military security patrol caught a truck in Sahl al-Ghab filled with ammunition and machine guns on its way to the Syrian resistance factions which the regime describes as ‘terrorist’. Beit Yashut’s Facebook page conveyed the details...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zabadani's local council west of  Damascus, in statement, said the most recent batch of United Nations food rations delivered to residents remaining in the town contained rice “unsuitable for human or animal consumption.” The assistance was delivered on 25 September...

The Turkish army backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) began an attack on the ISIS-held village of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, an opposition commander involved in the campaign and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. However, Turkish military sources said the operation to...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian Activists in Turkey reported that offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refuses admitting Syrian refugees and ignore them even in days allocated for the public. Journalist Jamal Mamo told Eqtsad that directors of UNHCR most of the time close...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Activists said death of Abu Ja'far al-Homsi was due to myocardial infarction and not being assassinated on Thursday in northern Idlib province. Ghaith Abu Ahmad, a member in the brigade's media office, told Zaman al-Wasl that the military commander of the Martyrs of Islam...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel group operating in central Hama province said Friday it had killed Russian and Iranian officers, according to statement posted online. Failaq al-Sham says the operation took three months of monitoring and tracking the Russian personnel in Hama city, assuring...

(Tablet)- When her 27-year-old son died in Syria, Rima felt more furious than sad. Unfortunately, she could not say out loud what she wanted to say. He was sent to fight in Syria, without her approval, and without receiving proper training. She wanted to blame someone—mainly those who had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Muslims around the world celebrate the religious day of Ashura as a commemoration of the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ceremonies of this day are practiced in a bizarre and bloody way, in which men punish themselves and cause pain to themselves even...

Overwhelmed rescue workers combed rubble for victims of intense air strikes on Syria's battleground city Aleppo on Friday, ahead of fresh diplomatic efforts to end the country's intractable conflict. The United States and Russia, which support opposite sides in the five-year war, will meet...

A senior rebel commander said on Friday that Syrian government forces would never be able to capture Aleppo's opposition-held east, more than three weeks into a ferocious offensive, but a military source said the operation was going as planned. Russian air strikes were proving of little help...

Humanitarian aid for the Syrian province of Aleppo is currently stuck at the Turkish border, said a UN official on Friday. “Twenty UN humanitarian aid trucks have been stuck at the Turkish-Syrian border and aid supply cannot be reached to the east of Aleppo neither by air nor by land,” UN...

(Eqtsad)- The integration decision of Syrian students within the Turkish schools has caused confusion for Syrian students and their families due to differences in implementing the decision among states in Turkey, and even within the same state.  The ministry of Education has issued...