U.S. President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that NATO could help Libya counter Islamic State militants as well as train and assist troops in Iraq, Jordan and elsewhere to fight the insurgent group. "We are continuing to cooperate on an...

Iran has sent commandos to Syria as advisers, a military official said on Monday, suggesting it is using its army as well as paramilitary forces to help President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the country's civil war. Tehran is Assad's main regional ally and has provided military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 42 people tortured to death by Syria's security services in March, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in new report. Two more people were tortured to death by the Islamic State group, the monitoring that tracks Syrian war's visitations said. Despite the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A meeting between Syrian regime officials and Islamic State commanders took place this week in the Palestinian Yarmouk Refugee Camp southern the capital over possible truce. A well-informed source indicated the new “emir” Abu Hamza al-Afghani and Abu Hamza al-Sheikh, “emir of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source confirmed the regime transferred the guided Syrian planes productions’ project set up from Scientific Research Center in Damascus to Iran including experts, engineers and technicians. The source from regime military told Zaman al-Wasl, project’s...

Greece began returning migrants from the island of Lesbos to Turkey on Monday under a landmark European Union deal aimed at stopping the uncontrollable influx of migrants and refugees into Europe since last year. Under the EU-Turkey deal, Ankara will take back all migrants and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took ground from Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa on Sunday as clashes enters third week in the southern province, activists said. FSA seized control of Masaken Jillin, former military housing, form the Yarmouk Martyrs...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Feminist Lobby condemned what it called “the dirty crime” committed in the right of all women and Syrian women specifically through the crime of human trafficking of the network discovered recently in Lebanon. The lobby stressed the necessity of doing urgent moves to...

Syrian troops on Sunday seized the key Islamic State group bastion of Al-Qaryatain, dealing the jihadists a new blow in the country's centre a week after expelling them from Palmyra, state television said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group however said fighting was still...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A humanitarian aid convoys reached two besieged towns by the Syrian regime in central Homs province, local reporter said on Sunday. 30 trucks loaded by food and medicine entered al-Dar al-Kabira and al-Ghanto towns west of Homs on Saturday as more aid to be delivered to...

Syrian rebels and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have mounted an offensive against Syrian government forces and on Saturday took a strategic hill south of Aleppo from government control, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the offensive began...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A child killed and others injured during Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD)-led Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance disperse of a set-in in which hundreds of displaced participated including women and children on Saturday protesting the alliance preventing the displaced...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Gazelle helicopters were strongly present during Russian officers leading Assad forces offensive on Palmyra. The helicopters played a crucial role in destroying vehicles of ISIS and its forticiations and advance points by using missiles from hot type. The Gazelle helicopter...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian rebels on Saturday launched a surprise attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northern countryside of coastal Latakia province, killing at least 25 soldiers, activists said. Media activist “Abdul Rahman al-Lazqani”said revolutionaries’ factions...

Greek authorities were gearing up Saturday to send hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, which is racing to set up reception centres under a controversial EU migrant deal. "Planning is in progress," Yiorgos Kyritsis, spokesman for Greece's refugee coordination unit, told AFP as...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State-linked groups launched new attacks on Free Syria Army in southern Daraa province and border territory with Jordan on Saturday, activists said. The ISIS fighters launched attack to capture ground in Allajat region northeast of Daraa city from FSA as fellow...

 Syria's partial cease-fire is unraveling, as fierce fighting between pro-government forces and opposition fighters, including members of the al-Qaida affiliated Nusra Front, erupted Saturday outside the country's second largest city of Aleppo. At least 25 pro-government fighters died in...

Turkey's Coast Guard stopped 63 Palestinians and Syrians trying to cross to a Greek island on Saturday, underlining the scale of the security forces' task in convincing illegal migrants they won't be allowed into the EU. A controversial European Union deal to return rejected asylum...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 regime army soldiers killed on Saturday in an ambush set by the powerful Islam Army in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, group's media accounts said. Regime forces backed by allied militias waged major offensive on Saturday from four axis to make advances in...

Syrian troops found a mass grave containing around 40 bodies in Palmyra city, captured from Islamic State last Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday. SANA said the grave, which contained many women and children, was in the north-eastern edge of Palmyra. Some of...