Islamic State attacked a hospital in Deir al-Zor on Saturday and seized territory on the edge of the besieged eastern Syrian city still partly controlled by the government, the militant group said. Islamic State's Amaq news agency said its fighters stormed the Assad Hospital and also took...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and backed militias launched missile attack on the besieged town of Daraya near Damascus, field sources said Saturday. Residents of Daraya said regime plans for major attack on the town after pounding the the southern neighborhood by surface to-surface early...

Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by Sunni Islamist artillery fire and not by an Israeli air strike as one member of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement had said. "Investigations have showed that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a judge in terrorism court in Damascus referred prominent Syrian opposition figure Mohamed Saleh to the criminal court on charges of “funding terrorism in Syria” and that when he helped a family in besieged al-Waer neighborhood...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Activists and experts warn of an imminent bread crisis in governmental-held areas that will fueled by the Syrian regime. The Minister of Internal Trade and Protecting Consumers has forwarded an order to the committee of auxiliary bakeries demanding them to...

There were hardly any Syrian migrants among the 800 people rescued off Sicily, contrary to earlier reports from Italy's coastguard, the U.N. and the International Organization for Migration have confirmed. The coastguard had said Thursday that half of the 342 migrants they had picked up were...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- A new fire broke out late on Thursday in al-Manakhliye market in the Old City of Damascus, a week since blaze had engulfed a historic market nearby, residents say.   The arson of al-Manakhliye was similar to Asruniyeh fire. The damage is unclear amid...

 A rebel onslaught on the town of Khan Touman near Aleppo last week delivered one of the biggest battlefield setbacks yet to the coalition of foreign Shi'ite fighters waging war on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Reports put the death toll among the Iranian, Afghani and...

Translation  by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iraqi refugees fleeing Nineveh asked to be allowed to cross to north of Iraq regions due to difficult humanitarian conditions in al-Haul camp in Hasaka province, local sources said. Hundreds of Iraqi families suffer terrible conditions at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes renewed Friday between a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia and Islamic State fighters in the southern countryside of Hasaka province, local sources said as 300 families fled to the Iraqi border escaping International Coalition air strikes. The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition activists have slammed rebel factions over image shared on social media claimed to show rebel fighters next to the bodies of two women in an Alawite village in Hama province. Responding to the image, an alliance of rebel groups behind the attack on al-Zara...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Ahmed Othman, Commander of Sultan Murad Brigade, a unit of  Free Syrian Army operating in Aleppo, said more fierce fighting to take place in the war-torn province unless achieving significant political solution, assuring that Iran sees...

Insurgents killed at least 19 civilians believed to be from families of fighters loyal to the Syrian government after capturing an Alawite village from government control in western Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said. Residents from the village of al-Zara interviewed by state media...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Despite the attempts of the security forces to control the Western countryside of Homs, many groups of “Shabiha” still uncontrollable, as they commit crimes of killing, abduction, looting and they become the main decision makers in the area, and members of...

The United States and its allies staged 21 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Thursday in their latest round of daily attacks against the militant group, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Friday. The Combined Joint Task Force said 14 strikes in Iraq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people have been killed in regime vacuum missile attack on Maaret Masrin in Idlib province, activists said Friday. The Bashar al-Assad war planes have also hit Ariha town, wounding é' people, local residents say. Early Friday, a U.S.- led air strike hit a Nusra...

Amnesty International said on Friday that Syrian insurgent groups might have committed war crimes in their heavy bombardment of a Kurdish-controlled area of the northern city of Aleppo. The rights watchdog said it had collected evidence of the killing of dozens of civilians by indiscriminate...

Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria, the Lebanese Shi'ite group said on Friday, the biggest blow to the Iranian-backed organization since its military chief was killed in 2008. Badreddine, 55, was one of the highest ranking officials in the group,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A U.S.- led air strike hit a Nusra Front meeting in Abu al-Dhour air base in Idlib province, killing 16 senior members of the al-Qaeda-linked group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said on Friday. The disused air base had been heavily bombed in the attack,...

Russia on Thursday buried its eighth serviceman officially acknowledged to have been killed in its military campaign in Syria, suggesting as many have died in combat since the Kremlin announced a partial pullout as before the March announcement. Moscow has continued sending military hardware...