The Syrian government used toxic gas eight times over a five-month period in different areas of Syria, a group that monitors the conflict said Tuesday. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said gas had been used between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31 last year, mostly in Idlib, the...

Turkey called on Tuesday for Russia’s airstrikes on civilians and hospitals in Syria to be debated at the UN Security Council. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also called on Russia and the U.S. - both permanent members of the council - to show their support for peace by enforced a no-fly...

Saudi Arabia participated in air strikes as part of a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State militants over the weekend, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman said on Tuesday. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who has been under pressure to shore up support from Sunni Arab...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 people have killed and dozens wounded in Russian airstrikes on an ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasakah as regime army and Kurdish militants launch joint attack on the strategic town. The deadly Russian air strikes have targeted the main bakery of...

The U.N. Syria envoy met Syria's foreign minister on Monday and discussed a cessation of hostilities, a resumption of peace talks this month, and the need for "unhindered" delivery of humanitarian aid to areas besieged by all parties, a U.N. spokesman said. Staffan de Mistura...

Turkish artillery has returned fire "in kind" into Syria, military sources said on Tuesday, marking the fourth straight day of shelling by the Turkish military. Turkey on Monday warned Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine rebel groups operating in northern Aleppo province pledged allegiance to Hashim Al-Sheikh, the former leader of Ahrar al-Sham movement on Monday as rebels face the risk of collapse and losing their strongholds to favor of regime forces and U.S.-backed Kurdish forces....

The Kurdish-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the town of Tal Rifaat on Monday, seizing territory close to the Turkish border and pushing east towards Islamic State-held territory, conflict monitors said. The move means the SDF - which include the Kurdish YPG...

The German government expects 500,000 refugees to come to Germany this year, German newspaper Rheinische Post cited sources from the Federal Labor Office as saying. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Frank-Juergen Weise, head of both the Federal Office for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Maha Jasim Halawik, a-4-year-old girl from Zara town in countryside of Homs, suffers from a state of mute-deaf and dislocation in her left hip during rescuing her from under the rubbles of her house. Mohammed Kassab detailed that the girl was...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Regime forces in the city of Deir Ezzor have started moving some families of police forces and officers on planes to Damascus and the coastal region while it prevented other people from leaving areas under its control. An activist explained...

Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Syrians with attempting to join Islamic State militant group after border patrols arrested them as they tried to enter Turkey from Bulgaria, the interior ministry said on Monday. The three Syrians, who had refugee status from Germany, had...

 Turkish forces shelled Kurdish fighters in northern Syria for a third day Monday but failed to stop their advance, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitor said Turkish troops were shelling the road to the west of the town of Tal Rifaat, which has been a key...

 Austria announced Monday it will place six nations including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia on its list of "safe countries of origin", as it seeks to curb the number of economic migrants. The decision, which will also see Georgia, Ghana and Mongolia added to the list, was taken after the...

Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border. An offensive...

Syrian opposition forces on Sunday repelled an attack by the YPG -- the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the terrorist PKK group’s Syrian affiliate -- in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. YPG units attacked parts of western Aleppo at dawn following fierce Russian aerial...

Mohamed Qassim, who formerly served as attorney-general in Syria’s central city of Tadmur, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Saturday about collusion -- which he says he witnessed first-hand -- between the Assad regime and its ally Russia and the Islamic State militant group. Qassim, who now supports...

Qatar became the latest Gulf state to signal its willingness to intervene in Syria with ground troops. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Foreign Minister Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Qatar indicated last year it was willing to send soldiers to fight Daesh. “In...

(The Guardian)- Vladimir Putin could end Syria’s civil war with one phonecall, Britain’s foreign secretary has said. Calling on the Russians to end airstrikes on moderate Syrian opposition fighters, Philip Hammond said: “There is one man on this planet who can end the civil war in Syria by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dominant Islam Army rebel group, in statement issued Sunday, said its had killed 16 Islamic State fighters in an ambush in the Eastern Qalamoun region near Iraqi borders. Islam Army's special forces units have ambushed ISIS fighters between al-Dhaba'a and Bir al-Manqoura...