The United Kingdom is not sure that Russia's announced pullout from Syria is genuine, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told reporters Wednesday in Baghdad. "If it turns out to be a genuine pullout – and we don't know that," he said of Russia's announcement that it would withdraw some of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has on Monday, the first day of the second round of Geneva3 talks to resolve the Syrian crisis, suddenly announced decision of withdrawing the majority of its forces from Syria the very next day, according to President Vladimir Putin and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish internal security forces arrested 60 members of National Defense Forces, a pro-regime militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli Wednesday, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network...

Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria were expected to imminently declare a federal system, a move likely to further complicate peace talks in Geneva on ending more than five years of war. Russia pulled more warplanes out of Syria, a new delivery of humanitarian aid reached...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has withdrawn most heavy vehilces in Jebt Beit Ridha camp in Hama province late on Tuesday in an implement to the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of a partial withdrawal from Syria, local monitor told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Sutaif al-Khatabbi, director of Observatory...

Fresh humanitarian aid reached some 13,000 families in northern Aleppo province as a convoy of 26 trucks entered areas hit by recent fighting, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. The delivery by the Syrian Red Crescent to towns including Azaz, Afrin and Tal Rifaat was the largest in the area for...

U.S. administration officials on Tuesday remained cautious about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a partial withdrawal from Syria. "The earliest indications are that the Russians are following through, but it’s still too early to determine on this point what impact it will...

Two Syrian women took a hidden camera through the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to document their life under ISIS rule, knowing they faced execution should they be discovered, according to CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, which commissioned the video. Fully covered and wearing face veils,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of rallies took place in rebel-held territories across the war-torn country, marking the fifth anniversary of the Syrian revolution. People who waved the uprising flags asserted their 5-year-old demand, 'The People Want to Bring Down The Regime,' The unprecedented...

Russian helicopters pounded jihadist positions around the ancient city of Palmyra on Tuesday as Syrian troops pressed a ground advance, a monitoring group said. "Russian helicopters and warplanes, that are likely Russian, are bombarding Islamic State group positions...

Syrian opposition says Russia withdrawal could lead to end of conflict, spokesperson said. Syria's opposition are "not against" direct talks with the country's government, RIA news agency quoted Salim al-Muslat, spokesman for the main Syrian opposition alliance in Geneva, as saying on...

Airstrikes by 11 Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq Monday are believed to have killed 45 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday. The military said the strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets, in the Qandil mountain area where the PKK has its main bases, also...

Senior Islamic State operative Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was wounded in a U.S. air strike last week in Syria, has died, CNN reported on Monday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen and described by the Pentagon as the group's "minister of war," was...

President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria will start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war. Syria rejected any...

 Syria's regime has submitted an document entitled "Basic Elements for a Political Solution" to the U.N. mediator at peace talks in Geneva, the head of Syria's delegation, Bashar Jaafari, told reporters Monday after the opening session of the talks. Jaafari said he had had a positive and...

Aid groups were unable to deliver much-needed food packages to four besieged towns in war-torn Syria on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross told AFP, citing security problems. Since an unprecedented ceasefire came into force on February 27, aid deliveries have reached...

Syria's five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, U.N. children's fund UNICEF said on Monday. Its report "No Place for Children" said more than 8 million children in Syria...

Russia is ready to coordinate its actions with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria to push the Islamic State group out of Raqqa, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. "We are ready to coordinate our actions with the Americans, because Raqqa...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Free Syrian Army units operating in northern Aleppo province have merged in one armed group to unified militay efforts on the ground, said in statement posted online  Saturday. Commanders of Division 99  said: “based on our...

The United States and France warned the Syrian regime on Sunday against trying to disrupt the fragile ceasefire as the warring sides prepared for fresh peace talks to end the brutal conflict. With the five-year anniversary of the violence looming, the main players in the...