The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had designated the leader of a group of French foreign fighters in Syria and a senior Hamas official as specially designated global terrorists, a move that freezes their U.S. assets. The State Department described the first man, Omar Diaby, as the...
The United States and Russia said on Friday they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored, although the agreement looked increasingly shaky, undermined by increasing violence and a failure to deliver aid. The second attempt this year by the Cold War-era...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian writers, artists, and journalists condemned the American-Russian intervention in their country in tandem with the ceasefire agreed on by both sides on Syrian territory which began on the eve of the first day of Eid al-Adha. They introduced themselves as...
Translated by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two members the military wing of Democratic Union Party (PYD) were killed this Friday by an explosive device targeted their car near the city of Shadadi southern of Hasaka, while PYD continued bulldozing Arabs’ houses in the region. The party...
(Zaman AL Wasl)- the Syrian regime and supporting militias have launched heavy attack of the the neighbourhood of Jobar in Damascus, trying to invade especially at Tiba axis, but the Free Syrian Army (FSA) stopped them killing dozens of them according to activists. Befor the attack,...
Twenty-two members of Syria’s Kurdish National Council (KNC) have waged a hunger strike for the last five days to show solidarity with political prisoners being held by the PYD, the Syrian offshoot of PKK terrorist group. "Our strike will continue until the PYD frees all detained KNC members...
Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce. An organization that monitors the war also said the Syrian...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed on Friday the village of Marshamsha and town of Tamana and other areas in southern countryside of Aleppo with vacuum bombs, resulted and severe damage to the civil defense centre in Idlib city, beside many breaches for the truce of hostility...
Food aid for desperate civilians in eastern Aleppo remained stuck on the Syrian border Friday, the fourth morning of a fragile internationally-brokered truce in the war-ravaged country. An AFP correspondent said no movement could be seen on the rubble-strewn Castello Road, the main route...
Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Weeks before the eruption of the Syrian revolution the regime’s agents in Lebanon kidnapped four brothers and handed them to Syrian intelligence. Al-Jasim four brothers, Jasim, Shbib, Ali and Haidar, who came from Jarablus northern of Syrian to...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than three quarters of Europeans sympathize with Syrian refugees coming to their countries, a poll found on Friday, challenging reports of growing anti-immigration sentiment across the continent. Ireland topped the poll of European countries that...
The family of a Syrian refugee tripped by a TV camerawoman as he carried his young son across the Hungarian border last September is looking forward to be reunited soon after finally getting visa clearance. Osama Abdul Mohsen had dominated headlines when Hungarian camerawoman Petra...
(Washington Post)- The remains of three Americans who died in Syria after joining a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia to fight the Islamic State are expected to be repatriated Wednesday, members of their families and a congressional source said. The bodies of Levi Shirley, William Savage and Jordan...
Syrian government forces and rebels had yet to withdraw from a road needed to deliver aid to the city of Aleppo on Thursday, threatening the most serious international peacemaking effort in months as the sides accused each other of violating a truce. The aid delivery to rebel-held eastern...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated photos showing American flags waving in YPG-held Tel Abyad town near the Turkish border, amid conflicted reports that the place is a U.S. military base. Local activists said YPG had raised the flags in al-Monbateh village to avoid Turkey-backed...
Reporting by Tareq Hajbakri (Eqtsad)- An official in the Public Directorate of Electricity in Latakia revealed that Russian companies intend to install electricity generators to supply the Latakia and Tartus provinces with electricity. In a relevant content, officials sources...
The Russian air force is preparing to try out new weaponry and targeting systems, with full combat tests of the hardware to be carried out as part of missions in Syria, according to an RBTH source in the Russian military-industrial complex. In November 2016, the Russian aircraft carrier...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. forces operating in northeastern Syria have been rehabilitating agricultural airports to use it for military purposes, local sources told Zaan al-Wasl. Washington, the founder and supporter of Syria Democratic Forces, an alliances of Kurdish and Arab fighters,...
Humanitarian aid is due to be delivered to Aleppo on Friday following a withdrawal of combatants from a contested road leading to the city on Thursday, a Syrian rebel official said. "Today the withdrawal is supposed to happen, with aid entering tomorrow. This is what is supposed to happen,...
Reporting by Naser Ali (Eqtsad)- During the last 5 years of war, with the soaring prices and lack of job opportunities, most Syrians started to rely on moneys sent from their relatives abroad, to help them in managing the living cost. However, the exchange offices in Syria are connected to...
