The civil war in Syria has seen scores of refugees crossing the sea to reach Europe- where they are not always welcome. One family fled the Syrian capital Damascus over a year ago and in search of a new home, they made the trek down south, to South Africa. Yaser and Safaa Jabri Al Rehawi have...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Recent Syrian regime’s military campaign and Russian airstrikes on the countryside of Hama have increase the burden on the civil defense forces, which already suffer of shortage of manpower and equipment. Zaman Al Wasl has observed the suffering of...

Islamic State attacked the Syrian government's main supply route from Damascus to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, a day after the group targeted Damascus and Homs in some of the bloodiest car bomb attacks of the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting and air...

 ISIS Monday released the last of some 230 Assyrian Christians kidnapped a year ago in Syria after the receiving millions of dollars in ransom, Christian officials said. Younan Talia, of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, told The Associated Press that about 40 remaining Christian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of kafr Batna suburb in the Eastern Ghouta district  have refused on Monday to receive any humanitarian aid unless being delivered to all embattled suburbs near Damascus, local reporter said. The town's local council said the (Assad) regime is planning to sow...

Syria opposition coordinator Hijab says there is provisional agreement on temporary truce: Orient TV

A draft U.S.-Russian plan calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria to begin on Feb. 27 but to exclude ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front militants, two Western diplomatic sources said Monday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report by the Al-Jazeera...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists have accused SDF, a Kurdish-led alliance backed by the U.S., of looting the public and private properties in areas it controlled in the northern province of Aleppo. Jaish al-Thuwar, key unit in the Syrian Democratic Forces, which now in full control of vast...

Syria's main opposition umbrella group was meeting in the Saudi capital Monday as Washington and Moscow worked to secure a ceasefire. "There is a meeting," Monzer Makhous, a spokesman for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), told AFP in Riyadh. The meeting is expected to continue for two or...

A military ground operation in Syria by Turkey and Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda and any such move would need to involve all countries in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday. Russian airstrikes were the biggest obstacle to achieving a...

“We believe in our army, and in our state.” Amid sounds of artillery invading the atmosphere of the city of Kilis, just a few miles from the Syrian border, Halil Deli, 36, taxi driver for five years now, support the Turkish army’s shelling in Syria. But he quickly shows concern not only for...

Separate bomb attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria on Sunday killed at least 129 people as Washington pursued efforts for a ceasefire. As US Secretary of State John Kerry said a provisional deal had been reached on the terms of a truce, violence intensified...

At least 50 ISIS group fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours in an advance by Syrian government forces east of Aleppo city, an activist said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighters were killed in clashes as well as strikes by Russian forces that...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Eqtsad - Zamana Al Wasl)- Sarah, the Syrian refugee woman in Egypt who was waiting to follow her a asylum-seeker husband to Sweden, has never expected to be dumped and divorced as the husband changed migration plans and decided to start a new life in Germany....

At least 46 people were killed in twin car bomb blasts that hit Syria's Homs on Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said, and state media confirmed the explosions. At least 100 others were wounded by the...

Syria's opposition on Saturday said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries were allowed country-wide. But there was no immediate sign that...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine ISIS wounded fighters moved on Saturday from southern Damascus suburbs to Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the hardline group , in coordination with the Syrian regime, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. One of the ISIS wounded who moved from al-Hajer al-Aswad suburb to...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday called on the United States to give unconditional support in the fight against Syrian Kurdish militants, illustrating growing tension between Ankara and Washington over policy in northern Syria. Davutoglu also said Turkey would...

A Saudi group has sent 21 trucks of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees seeking shelter in southern Turkey. Speaking to Anadolu Agency at the entrance of Elbeyli Refugee Camp, the head of the Saudi National Campaign for Support Brothers in Syria office in Turkey, Khaled al-Salama, said they...

Syria's opposition on Saturday said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries allowed country-wide. Russian airstrikes began last September and turned the...