The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force said five strikes in Syria, four of them near Mar'a, hit tactical...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State militants took back six towns from rebels near the border with Turkey on Monday, four days after losing it to a grouping of rebels, a monitoring group and activists said. The ultra-hardline Islamist group seized the town of al-Rai from factions fighting under the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source considered that regime played Islamic State in Palmyra under Russian pressure to recapture historical city after 10 months of Isis control over the city. The source said Russia wanted to polish its presence in Syria in front of the International Community....
Islamic State militants took back a stronghold in Syria's northern Aleppo countryside on Monday, days after losing it to a grouping of mainly Turkish-backed rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Factions fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had...
Writing by Elaph Qaddah; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian people either in liberated of besieged areas face different kinds of problems and sufferings, they have exceeded the military aspects like shelling, bombing, destroying the infrastructure and houses, to reach to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy ground battles between Isis and rebel factions have been ongoing for the last past hours, local sources said. Rebel factions expelled Isis and recaptured villages of Yahmoul, Baraghida, Jariz, Tilal Hussein. According to the local sources, rebel factions continue to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.N. Special Envoy to Syria visited Damascus on Sunday to meet with minister of foreign affairs of regime Walid al-Mualim and Russian ambassador in Damascus, according to close to the regime Watan newspaper. The newspaper pointed out the regime delegate to participate...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led international coalition stepped up air strikes on Raqqa city, targeting civil neighborhoods and public facilities, local monitor said Sunday. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently Campaign said the International alliance air strikes started early dawn and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian government's servers have been hacked on Saturday and crucial data to be revealed soon, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The anonymous hacker group has obtained confidential and dangerous information of 10 Gb of size related to Ministry of Finance, economy and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militia launched major attack on rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of Damascus, rebel commander said Sunday. Hamza Bairakdar, senior commander in powerful Jaish al-Islam group, said regime offensive started at the midnight to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed and 3 held captive in an Isis offensive on SDF stronghold south of al-Shadadi town in Hasaka province, activists said. Local sources said clashes erupted between Isis and PYD-led SDF...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched Saturday a counterattack on regime forces and allied militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, seizing control of three towns, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have recaptured al-Khalediya town and big parts of Barneh and Zeitan...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes erupted late on Saturday between Islamic State and Nusra Front in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus, leaving casualties from both sides, local reporter said. The clashes are still underway as ISIS fighters press to capture the western...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) died of his wounds on Friday in northern Aleppo province, activists said. The Turkish national, known as 'Jiya', was the YPG's military commander in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city. Jiya...
Rebels seized a town in southern Syria from groups loyal to Islamic State just a day after fighters captured another town from the hardline militants in a separate insurgent assault in the north, a rebel source and a monitoring group said. The rebels had by late on Friday taken...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source gave Zaman al-Wasl names of regime army pilots who committed Deir al-Asafir massacre ten days ago that left 32 people killed, mostly women and children, east of Damascus. The army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the perpetrators of the...
Five migrants - four women and one child - drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos close to Turkey's coast, Greek coast guard officials said on Saturday. Five other migrants were rescued, the officials said, and coast guard vessels assisted by a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 people have been killed on Saturday in regime air strikes on a g athering area for displaced people in the southern countryside of Idlib, according to activists. Th two strikes that also have left 10 people wounded hit a housing for displaced families in...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Free Syrian Army unit operating in Eastern Qalamoun region took Friday a series of hilltops from the Islamic State fighters near the desert town of Dumeir, northeastern the capital, activists said. The clashes are still underway between ISIS and 'Martyr Ahmed al-Abdo Forces'...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYD militia launched a series of arrests in villages affiliated to al-Haul in eastern countryside of Hasaka province, local activists said. The arrests came as residents of al-Haul were planning to rally after Friday prayers to demand return of displaced people who...
