Italy's coastguard said it helped rescue 801 migrants from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, including many Syrians, amid signs that refugees from the Middle East are increasingly shunning the Greek route into Europe. More than a million migrants, many from Syria, have entered Europe...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel factions said they have killed at least 75 militants from the pro-regime Palestinian al-Quds Brigade north of Aleppo province this week. Noor al-Din al-Zinki Movement, in statement posted online, said it had killed at least 30 Quds militia militants early Thursday...

Syrian regime forces battled rebels north of Aleppo on Thursday as a ceasefire expired in the city itself, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and rebel sources said. The fighting was focused around the rebel-held Handarat area which is important because it is near the last route into...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have launched campaign calling for lifting the siege on al-Waer neighbourhood, the last  stronghold of revolution  in Homs, because it suffers of severe shortage of food, medicine and water, threatening of humanitarian crisis...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's mortar rounds hit crowds were waiting humanitarian aid in the besieged town of Daraya west of Damascus, killing at least two people, local activists said Thursday after aid convoy denied entry. Father and his son have been killed as dozen more have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Syrian National Coalition Anas al-Abdah said on Wednesday that Adana Accord (1998)  between Turkey and Syria is paving the way for Ankara to create a safe zone in Syria. On the margin of his participation in a conference titled “The recent developments in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Thursday have captured al-Zara town from regime forces in the northern countryside of Homs province, killing 13 army troops, local activists said. Homs Operation Room, an alliance of Islamist factions, have also captured al-Aaliyat and al-Qanatir checkpoints,...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- The Syrian Assad regime and key ally businessman Mohamed Hamshou are involved in implementing the Iranian scheme to take over Asruniyeh and Bzuriyeh historic markets in the heart of Old City of Damascus, well-informed sources said. Well-informed sources...

Turkish artillery pounded Islamic State targets in northern Syria overnight and the U.S.-led coalition carried out air strikes, killing 28 militants near a Turkish border town repeatedly hit by rocket fire, Turkish military sources said. The artillery strikes near Kilis, north...

 Aid agencies are to deliver relief supplies to the besieged Syrian rebel-held town of Daraya Thursday, the first since 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. "This is the first ever humanitarian convoy to this town in the suburbs of Damascus since the beginning of the...

Britain, the United States, France and Ukraine blocked a Russian proposal at the United Nations to blacklist Syrian rebel groups Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham for links to Islamic State and al Qaeda militants, diplomats said on Wednesday. Russia made the proposal late last month and the...

Writing by Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mariam al-Mosetif, 43, a stepmother of 3 with special need, whom she treats with all love and tenderness in the Lebanese Arsal camp, as if they her own offspring. The three of her stepsons of her husband who is16...

States backing Syria's peace process must stop the warring parties from attacking unlawful targets such as hospitals and other civilian sites, U.N. war crimes investigators said in a statement on Wednesday. Air strikes, shelling and rocket fire had been consistently used in recent attacks on...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Humanitarian conditions in besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city have become tragic following 3 months of suspension of the United Nations sponsored deal, civil sources said. Last December, the U.N. had brokered a truce deal in al-Waer...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Over 50,000 rescue missions have been carried out by the Civil Defense volunteer group, also known as the White Helmets, since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, senior official told Zaman al-Wasl.. About 150 thousand people from Idlib province were rescued...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Al-Waer neighborhood, last rebel stronghold in central city of Homs, is witnessing a tough siege imposed by the regime forces on the entry of flour which threats to exacerbate the starvation crisis and create a humanitarian disaster. Last December, the U.N. had brokered a...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The case of the expired formula milk destroyed by customs at Bab al-Hawa border crossing, has become a high profile public matter after it was openly discussed following the clarification and justification made by the border crossing which is...

The 17-nation group backing Syria peace talks will meet next week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, a day after he and his Russian counterpart agreed to work to revive a "cessation of hostilities" agreement reached in February. Kerry told reporters in London he expected...

Turkish border guards have beaten and shot Syrians trying to reach Turkey, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, as fighting in the border province of Aleppo intensifies threatening to force more people to flee. HRW said in a report based on interviews with victims, witnesses and Syrian...

Islamic State said on Tuesday it had downed a Syrian army helicopter in a desert area of central Syria where heavy fighting is going on, the militant group and a monitor said. Amaq, a news agency associated with Islamic State, said the helicopter was shot down near in the Palmyra desert...