The U.S. does not have the cure-all for Syria’s woes, CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged Wednesday, stressing that the crisis, already in its sixth year, will likely wear on for several more. “In my 36 years working national security issues it is the most complicated issue I ever have...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday sought to diffuse criticism of a U.S.-Russian ceasefire agreement on Syria arguing that without it violence would increase significantly with many more Syrians slaughtered or forced to flee the war-torn country. The deal struck between...

Russia’s contribution to meeting the needs of refugees displaced by the Syrian conflict has been negligible, while its military involvement in the conflict has been significant, Human Rights Watch said today. Russia should use the upcoming summit meetings on the global refugee crisis to make...

Syrian people returning to the liberated city of Jarabulus are happy to observe their first terror-free Eid al-Adha in two and a half years. Jarabulus was cleared of Daesh on August 24, as part of Turkish military’s Operation Euphrates Shield, which aims to drive Daesh out of the region to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most children in the Northern countryside of Homs have not felt the joy of Eid, as they were not put in new clothes or bought sweet, they did not go to funfair or swings, they only played in streets of their neighborhoods and heard stories from they parents about ceremonies of...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Field sources confirmed that the first day of the battle Qadisiat al-Janub witnessed advancement, whereby al-Hamiriyat Hill came under resistance control which means the pro-regime village of Hader is almost besieged. The advancement led the Qadisat al-Janub operation room to...

(Zaman al-Wasl) The regime and Islamic State siege did not succeed in preventing the Eid celebratory atmosphere, even a minimum level of it, from sneaking into al-Rejih Square in Yarmouk camp for besieged children to regain something from their childhood during Eid by playing with swings and...

Six Daesh terrorists were killed by coalition airstrikes in northern Syria, the Turkish military said Wednesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff gave the total toll for airstrikes and artillery bombardments against Daesh targets Tuesday. As well as six terrorists killed by...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Regime supporters’ responses to the ceasefire that started on the night of Eid al-Adha has varied as some of them found it an opportunity for the terrorist factions to catch their breaths after their losses in Aleppo and Latakia countryside and called for the regime to not...

 Reporting by Abdulhafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Yusef Abed al-Moulayet, who achieved first place in the Syrian general baccalaureate exams in its scientific branch in Lebanon with a score of 229 from a total of 240, always remembers the wise phrase, “learning is light and ignorance is...

A new ceasefire in Syria brought a full day with no combat deaths in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, a monitoring body said on Tuesday, and efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas got cautiously underway. Twenty-four hours after the truce took effect, the United...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Omar Ismael, a leader in Kurdistan Democratic Party reported Tuesday that the party had in many towns and villages of Hasaka organised sit-in demanding freeing prisoners at PYD’s prisons. Ismael added in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl that they have organised sit-in at “Party”...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Moscow said on Tuesday that has set up mobile observation posts in the area of Castello road in Aleppo with the aim of supplying the Russian Center for Reconciliation with information about the situation of the road and what breaches of the ceasefire might occur.  The...

Three Syrian men believed to have been sent to Germany last year by the Islamic State group were arrested in raids on Tuesday, part of efforts to root out extremists sent to Europe amid the migrant influx, authorities said. The three are accused of coming to Germany in mid-November at the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The first park for children opened in al-Takaful camp, in the Atme group of tents close to the Turkish border, on the first day of the blessed Eid al-Adha as part of a festival organized by al-Zelal humanitarian foundation in coordination with the volunteer team from Ghorras...

Thirty-four people were killed in airstrikes carried out by Russian and Syrian regime warplanes in Syria on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival on Monday, a U.K.-based rights group has said.  The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said it documented the deaths of 15...

A nationwide ceasefire was mostly holding across Syria at the start of its second day on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Some air attacks and shelling were reported in the first hours of the truce on Monday evening, in areas including the north Hama countryside, East...

Israel said its aircraft attacked a Syrian army position on Tuesday after a stray mortar bomb struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, and it denied a Syrian statement that a warplane and drone were shot down. The air strike was a now-routine Israeli response to the occasional spillover...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian student Abdullah al-Khatib achieved first place among the students of the media faculty in the department of radio and television in Jordanian Yarmouk University in the city of Irbid with an average of 91.4%, higher than all of his peers, in a celebration held...

The National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces have announced that it will respond positively to the U.S.-Russia-brokered cease-fire across the country. The Syrian regime Monday announced the start of the cease-fire, the official news agency said. "The Syrian Coalition...