(Zaman Al Wasl)- 600 Free Syrian Army fighters with their families, who left two western suburbs of Damascus on Thursday, have arrived to the northern Idlib province, almost a month since the regime army has waged major offensive on Qudsaya and al-Hamah, seeking to clear out all rebel pockets...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved a law ratifying Moscow's deal with Syria to deploy its forces in the country indefinitely, in a move seen as firming their long-term presence. The agreement - signed between Moscow and Damascus in August 2015 - allowed Russia to establish its...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting intense airstrikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo amid clashes between government forces and rebels. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday reported dozens of overnight airstrikes on eastern...

A total of 62 Daesh terrorist targets were destroyed in an operation carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces in northern Syria Thursday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, according to a Turkish military source.  In an emailed statement to Anadolu Agency, the source, who...

 A military victory in Aleppo would provide the Syrian army a springboard from which to liberate other areas of the country from "terrorists," President Bashar Assad said in an interview with a Russian media outlet. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda released Thursday, Assad said...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army's capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be "a very important springboard" to pushing "terrorists" back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 people, mostly FSA fighters, were killed after a car bomb exploded on Thursday near a checkpoint close to the Bab al-Salama crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in northern Aleppo province, Reuters and activists said. They said the blast took place near a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian army's defector Colonel Imad al-Karrad, the commander of Homs al-Waleed Brigade, was assassinated by two gunmen riding motorbike in the village of Tal-Shihab in southern Daraa province, sources said Thursday.  Al-Karrad was born in the Old City of Daraa, known...

(Eqtsad) After a long wait, Syrians in Jordan welcomed the news that they are exempted from paying the work permit fees with the hope it will improve their economic situation. Obtaining a work permit usually costs almost 350 Jordanian Dinar which equals 495 US Dollars and with the exemption the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s Security committee in northeastern Hasaka province agreed to provide PKK’s Syrian branch with 25 tonnes of ammunition and weapons as well with military night vision binoculars to monitor the Turkish border, activist said Thursday. Ahmed al-Ali who works for...

Syrian regime military backed by Russian warplanes have killed more than 150 people in eastern Aleppo this week, rescue workers said, part of a renewed bombardment supporting an offensive to seize the city's shattered rebel-held sector. As air strikes and shelling of the city's east...

Overnight shelling and over a dozen airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 11 people, bringing the death toll over the last three days in the embattled city to at least 65, activists said Thursday. Meanwhile, rebel shelling of government-held areas in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abo Jaafar al-Homsi, one of the most prominent commanders in Syria, lost his life on Thursday when he drowned in the border village of Darkoush in Idlib province, activists reported, saying the death happened in mysterious circumstances. Activists mourned Abu Ja'far, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person died on Thursday in the Yarmouk Refugee Camp south of Damascus as the Syrian regime and the Palestinian militias from one side and by the Islamic State forces keep the camp blockaded. An informed source said to Zaman al-Wasl that Mohammad Khalid, an elderly man,...

Thirteen people were killed and another 25 injured Thursday when Russian warplanes struck opposition-held areas of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo, according to a local civil defense official. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Najib al-Ansari, a pro-opposition civil defense official based in...

Renewed bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo has killed more than 150 people this week, rescue workers said on Thursday, as the Syrian government steps up its Russian-backed offensive to take the whole city. Air strikes against rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo had tapered off over the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters to leave two western suburbs of Damascus on Thursday, heading northern Idlib province, almost a month since the regime army has waged major offensive on Qudsaya and Hamah, seeking to clear out all rebel pockets surrounding the capital, local activists...

(Eqtsad)- Vine agriculture in southern Daraa province in the last 5 years has witnessed significant drop down, due to military actions in the region, especially in the countryside, which led to huge displacement toward safer areas. The raise in the price of primary materials and lack of...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ajnad al-Sham fighter attacked days ago al-Asali Martyrs school in al-Qadam, southern suburb of  Damascus, assaulting a number of teachers, beating them and cursing them to prevent them from opening the school. The situation created panic among...

A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has committed suicide in a detention center in Leipzig, the Justice Ministry for the state of Saxony said on Wednesday. Investigators believe Jaber Albakr, 22, who arrived in Germany last year, was close to staging an...