Syrian government forces recaptured territory from insurgents in several western areas on Saturday as the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote on rival French and Russian draft resolutions urging an immediate ceasefire. President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russian air power and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that a regime air force battalion specialized in building airports in cooperation with civilian companies began work to restore the landing field and runways in T-4 military airbase east of Damascus. The restoration work to the...

Reporting by Ammar Khasawneh (Zaman Al Wasl)- The systematic policy of forced displacement in Syria, pursuing by the Syrian regime, have pushed Syrian activists, journalists, legal rights activists, and  politicians to launch the “No To Forced Displacement in Syria” campaign to pressure...

Syrian regime forces and their allies recaptured several towns and villages in Hama province on Saturday, monitors and pro-Damascus media reported, pushing back rebels who had made significant advances in the area in recent weeks. It was the first time government forces were on the front...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Adbul -Rahim al- Fara, a child suffers of Acute Leukemia since he was 5 years old. His family was devastated from when they knew his disease, they found no support to treat him. They then treated him in the American hospital in Beirut before the war where he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Resistance has killed at least 30 fighter loyal to Bashar al-Assad, including Iraqi militants in Sheikh Saeed battlefield south of Aleppo city, senior commander said. Abu Bashir Maara, the militarily commander of Fateh Aleppo's Operation Room said the Resistance has...

Russia said on Friday that a draft U.N. resolution for a truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo was unacceptable, as Moscow faced growing international pressure to stop a devastating bombardment of the city backed by Russian air power. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Cotton production has dramatically fell in the northeastern Hasaka province, while production almost disappeared in Eastern and Southern of Hasaka, due to high cost of culturing it and securing needed requirements, besides difficulties in selling it at acceptable prices to...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) backed by the Turkish army has formed a security corridor of 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) in northern Syria through Operation Euphrates Shield, military sources said Friday. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to...

 A German court has convicted four men who procured tens of thousands of euros (dollars) worth of supplies for the ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham group in Syria of supporting a 'terrorist organization'. Lebanese citizen Kassem El-R., 33, was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison Thursday by...

Drone footage of Aleppo -- the city that has been at the scene of fierce fighting during Syria’s five-year civil war -- was released Friday and showed the intense devastation suffered by its residents. The Anadolu Agency video of the war-torn city -- once Syria’s most populous with 2.3...

Almost 13 thousand Barrel Bombs since the Russian Intervention (Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 658 barrel bombs were dropped from the regime’s helicopters, resulted in killing 71 civilians including 15 children and 9 women in September 2016. The UK- based Syrian Network of Human Rights (SNHR) has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Opposition Interim's Government has demanded the United Nations to dismiss its special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, due to his big professional and political mistakes in justifying the Russian and regime’s aggression on the northern city of Aleppo when he...

Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria's largest city and recapture full control of the country. The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest...

By Andrew Mitchell (The Independent)- As we survey the international catastrophe that is Syria today and reflect on the uncomfortable analogy between the UN’s failure and humiliation at the hands of Russia and the defeat of the League of Nations in the 1930s at the hands of Germany and...

(Eqtsad)- Many cases of food poisoning have been seen in Qaboun neighbourhood Eastern of Damascus, many of them needed treatment in hospital. Abo Hassan told Eqtsad that he bought pieces of ice to use them in cooling drinking water, however, the very next day he with his family suffered of...

The UN's Syria envoy Thursday warned east Aleppo faces total destruction, as government forces made their biggest gains in years against rebels inside the opposition-held part of the battleground city. Staffan de Mistura said eastern Aleppo could be "totally destroyed" by year's end, and...

Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria's largest city and recapture full control of the country. The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of Higher Justice Council, General prosecutor and a leader of Harakat Ahrar al-Sham and 26 people  have been killed and dozens wounded in an explosion Thursday at the Syria-Turkey border crossing of Atmeh.  Activists confirmed that Khalid al-Sayyed, Head of...

President Bashar al-Assad said his forces would recapture all of Syria, including Aleppo, in a television interview on Thursday but added he would prefer to do so using local deals and amnesties that would allow rebels to leave for other areas. According to the transcript of an interview...