Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Local Coordination Committee of the newly ISIS-liberated city of Palmyra launched Friday a campaign to highlight the miserable situation of people of the ancient city, according to statement posted Friday. The...

 Syrian mediators reached an agreement Friday for the release of some 300 cement workers kidnapped by the ISIS, a monitor said, but it was unclear exactly how many were freed. ISIS abducted the employees on Monday from Al-Badia cement factory outside the town of Dumeir, around 50...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday have thwarted major attack launched by regime forces and allied militias on Handarat district in northern Aleppo province, activists said. Bashar al-Assad's forces aim to capture the strategic Handarat camp to cut  rebels supply route as well to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters on Friday have taken new ground from an Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa as clashes enter its third week in the southern province, activists said. The moderate FSA fighters have recaptured the town of Tsail from the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has complied with rebels’ demands to ease the siege imposed the northeastern countryside of Homs province in order to get back the water supplies to loyal areas, local reporter said Friday. Ceasing bombardment on civilians, allow...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source reported that The kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has arrested Saleh al-Jallad, Head of the Air Force Intelligence in Hasaka, and his son, amid conditions indicate of possible conflict between the regime and (YPG) which...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Thursday launched an attack on Syrian regime’s pastions in the city of Deir Ezzor and the military airport in Eastern countryside, then fighting broke out at many fronts led to several death from both sides. Abo Abdul Rahman...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Derik camp near Mardin city at the Syrian-Turkish borders, witnessed several incidents of fire, which incited huge worried about the safety and neglect the Syrian refugees suffer compared to other camps in Turkey. the latest comic-tragic accident...

Turkey is investigating Russian claims that Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq have profited from smuggling stolen antiquities through its territory, but it believes the charges are politically motivated, a Turkish official said on Thursday. Russia's ambassador to the...

Migrants held on the Greek islands Lesbos and Chios live in "appalling" conditions with little access to legal aid or information about their fate under a European Union agreement that will send some back to Turkey, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Under a deal between...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters on Thursday have recaptured Sahm al-Goaln town from Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa as clashes enter its third week in the southern province, activists said. The Yramouk Martyrs Brigade and key ally al-Muthanna Movement...

Turkey has adopted a rule granting temporary protection status to Syrian migrants sent back from Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, a step required under an EU-Turkey deal to combat illegal migration, according to Turkey's Official Gazette. The status would be given to Syrians who...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- ISIS fighters have kidnapped 300 cement workers in an area northeast of Damascus where the militants launched an assault against government forces this week, Syrian state television said Thursday. The workers and contractors of Al Badia Cement company were taken from...

U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday he would travel to Damascus and Tehran and meet other regional officials to seek a common understanding on Syria's political transition, delaying the start of a round of peace talks by two days. De Mistura said he had already...

The chairman of a U.N. humanitarian taskforce on Syria said on Thursday he was disappointed by a slowdown in aid access, largely because of blockages by government-backed forces, but he hoped there would be a major evacuation from four towns. Jan Egeland said the evacuation was...

France blamed Syria's government on Thursday for a breakdown in a truce and preventing an improvement in the humanitarian situation, the foreign ministry's spokesman said. "It (France) condemns the violations of the cessation of hostilities for which the regime is responsible...

Syrian rebels seized control Thursday of ISIS’s main supply route to Turkey, a monitor said. “Rebel factions and Islamist took control of the northeast of Al-Rai,” a town occupied by ISIS on the border between Syria and Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “This is the main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has increased its military presence in Hmeymim air base with attack helicopters deployed for night operations and complicated weather conditions in the last few days, close source to regime said. The source refused to disclose his name said new Russian deployed Mi-28...

U.S. officials are discussing with the Turkish military and government how the moderate Syrian opposition can push Islamic State farther east in Syria, Washington's ambassador to Ankara said on Thursday. "We have had some progress in recent weeks as these groups pushed further...

Displaced residents of the famed Syrian city of Palmyra, recently recaptured by the army, will begin returning to their homes at the weekend, a government official told AFP Thursday. Syria's armed forces recaptured Palmyra and the adjacent world-famous ruins from the ISIS on March 27, ending...