(Zaman Al Wasl)- The United States is working on "specific initiatives" to reduce the violence in Syria and sees stopping the bloodshed in Aleppo as a top priority, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Saturday. In a statement detailing calls Secretary of State John Kerry has made...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “The good humble man was martyred in our neighborhood. He took his children with him to play in heaven instead of playing here, in this dirty world,” said neighbor of martyr Ahmad Malas al-Ma’rawi who was killed in Russian air strike on al-Kallaseh neighborhood of Aleppo on...

The U.S. on Friday strongly condemned a video that shows the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, Democratic Union Party's (PYD), parade with corpses of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in Afrin, Syria. "While we can't authenticate it 100 percent, we, without hesitation, strongly condemn this...

Russia will not ask the Syrian regime to halt air raids on the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, because it believes they are helping to combat jihadist groups, Moscow's foreign ministry said Saturday. "No, we are not going to put pressure on (Damascus) because one must understand that the situation...

A suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen at a checkpoint in Syria's divided northeastern city of Qamishli Saturday, police said. Four others were wounded in the attack on the city's demarcation line, according to Jowan Ibrahim, the commander of the Kurdish police known as the Asayish....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air force backed by Russian jets on Saturday have stepped up its aerial bombing on rebel-held Aleppo city, killing 7 civilians in al-Neirab and Bustan al-Qasr neighborhoods, local activists said. The devastating air strikes have also hit most neighborhoods of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rawan Qaddah has escaped from regime detention in a complicated operation and has reached Turkey, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Qaddah, 18, who once appeared on regime TV on Sep 23, 2013, claiming 'marriage jihad' with rebels, had arrived in Turkey, after breaking out from her...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The fighting between rebels and an ISIS-linked groups in the southern province of Daraa has affected farmers lives and made decline in the agricultural production, local activists said. The clashes that erupted last month between the southern Front, Nusra...

Government aircraft pounded rebel areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, which was left out of a deal to "freeze" fighting from Saturday despite international outrage over renewed violence. Shelling and air raids in Aleppo over the past week have killed more than 230 civilians and pushed a...

(Zaman Al Was-Special)- Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD) placed on one of the strongest trucks in the world dozens of rebel fighters' bodies on Thursday, exhibiting them in the streets of the northern city of Efrin near Aleppo, Such a blatant abuse of human rights that was highly rebuked...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source said Russian Su-24 warplane whose carried out the deadly air strikes on Aleppo's hospital late on Wednesday that left 50 people dead, including medics, children and doctors. The Russian night-attack jet hit Al-Quds field hospital in rebel-held Aleppo with two...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Some of the European Union member states have announced their will to provide aid and technical support to the Syrian government, such a move  has incited worries of opposition figures who say its a sneaky way to restore relationships with...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy clashes erupted on Friday between rebels and regime forces in Jabal al-Akrad region in the coastal province of Latakia, activists said as regime declared a brief truce in the northern countryside. Activist Abdul-Rahman Lathqani told Zaman...

Syria declared brief local truces near Damascus and in one province on Friday but made no mention of halting combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge in fighting the United Nations said showed "monstrous disregard" for civilian lives. The new "regime of calm", to begin from 1:00...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo and shelling of government-held areas of the city resumed on Friday, after a brief dawn lull following seven days of violence, a war monitor, a civil defense worker and Syrian state media said. At least seven people died in air strikes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Red color is sweeping the Syrian Facebook as the stricken city of Aleppo is being under brutal ground and aerial campaign by regime forces and Russian jets. Social media activists have called on all Facebookers to change their profile photo into red in solidarity with Aleppo....

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- In a place lacks to minimum living conditions, Mohamed Masri, a young man from Idlib lives, recalling painful memories about the frightening experience he had in his home city, which resulted in amputating his right hand,...

The deployment of U.S. special forces to Syria without coordination with Damascus violates Syria's sovereignty, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday.

The Syrian Army is planning offensives against the cities of Deir al-Zor and Raqqa with the support of the Russian Air Force, RIA news agency quoted Alexei Borodavkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, as saying on Friday.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo's Sharia Council has suspended all Friday Prayers in mosques and public squares amid high concerns of being hit by regime warplanes, according to statement posted online. About 250 civilians have been killed this week, nearly half of them around Aleppo. 50...