Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces waged an arrest campaign tracking 17,000 people who escaped conscription in the coastal city of Latakia, amid severe shortage in manpower in the army, activists said. Activist Abo Ahmed Lazqani reported to Zaman Al Wasl that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people have been killed in surface-to-surface missile attack hit Otaya town in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, activists said Thursday. Three children and a woman were among the casualties, medics in Douma hospital said. In northern Idlib...

Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government, sources familiar with the Kremlin's thinking say. Getting to that point could take years, and in the meantime Russia...

Translation  by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of besieged villages in the southern countryside of Hama have forwarded a message  to the office of the United Nation in Turkey, explaining their tragic living conditions in the villages of Harbanafsah, Talaf and Aqrab which...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said in an interview to be broadcast on Friday that Western countries had sent security officials to help his government covertly in fighting Islamist militants involved in Syria's war. Assad, in remarks to Australia's SBS News channel that were carried by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people have been killed in motorbike bomb attack in northern Idlib city while several more people have been wounded in two explosive devices attacks in Bennish and Salqeen towns, local activists said Thursday. The explosives-laden motorbike exploded near Fatah Army...

Reporting by Amar Bakour; Translation b Rana  Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the past two months, rebels foiled repeated attempts by the regime forces and its supporting militias to reach the strategic Castello road north of Aleppo city. In the night of Wednesday 29 June 2016, during a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 113 Syrians troops have been killed and 300 more have been wounded in the ongoing battles in Latakia province as rebels launch major offensive in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman areas, medical source told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels, who launched 'al-Yarmouk Battle'...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Palestinians killed in regime air strikes on the besieged refugee camp of Khan al-Shih south of Damascus, local council said Wednesday. Regime warplanes have carried out more than 50 raids on Khan al-Shih town and the Palestinian camp since Sunday, the town's local...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Ice cubes or ice piece, a new unfamiliar reason pushes people in Moadamiyet al-Sham to gather and clash with each other during the Holy Month of Ramadan.  Mowafaq, 44, talked to Eqtsad about his suffering to get a piece of ice: “I spend almost...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A few kilograms of rice, sugar, bulgur wheat, dates, and some canned food is all what Oum Kassem was able to buy before the start of the month of Ramadan.   As is the situation of many Syrians inside Syria, the 60-year-old displaced lady in one of the camps in Idlib’s...

Trucks carrying medical and food aid entered two blockaded towns near Damascus on Wednesday, meaning that humanitarian agencies have now reached all besieged areas of Syria this year, the United Nations said. The 38-truck convoy carried aid for some 20,000 people the U.N. estimates are living...

 U.S.-backed Syrian rebels were pushed back from the outskirts of an Islamic State-held town on the border with Iraq and a nearby air base on Wednesday after the jihadists mounted a counter- attack, two rebel sources said. The New Syria Army rebel group had launched an operation on...

Syrian rebels advanced into an Islamic State-held town at the border with Iraq on Wednesday, a rebel commander told Reuters, in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at cutting the jihadists' self-declared caliphate in two. The operation aiming to capture the eastern Syrian town of Al-Bukamal,...

At least five people were killed and scores wounded on Wednesday in a bomb attack on a local administrative office in the Kurdish-held Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the Turkish border, witnesses said. They said a suicide car bomber attacked the building run by Kurdish local authorities in the...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Besieged people of Gaza share Syrian refugees the suffering of siege that they have lived for years. Despite their small numbers those refugees experience a tragic situation during the holy month of Ramadan amidst...

Reporting by Oqab Malek; Translation by Rana  Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Syrian regime air force leadership has decided to terminate Suhkoi 22 M3 from the Squadron 685 and will incorporate the rest of aircraft to Squadron Sukhoi 22 M2 in Squadron 54 in al-Dumeir...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a big offensive on regime forces in coastal Latakia province, taking two hilltops in Jabal al-Akrad, activists said as regime forces and allied militias plan to mobilize more troops in the area. Rebels have seized Tellat a-Malek and Tellat...

Turkey has deployed two defense systems to its southern border to counter the threat of rocket attacks launched by Daesh in Syria, a security source said Tuesday. The Serhat and Korkut systems, which are both made by Turkish defense manufacturer ASELSAN, have been sent to Kilis province...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have pressed more advances in Jabal al-Akrad area in the coastal Latakia province, taking tow hilltops, activists said. Rebels have seized a-Malek and Rasha hilltops after fierce fighting with regime forces and allied militias, according to activists....