A convoy carrying medical aid on Saturday entered the besieged rebel-controlled Douma area, a flashpoint near the Syrian capital, the Red Crescent said. The aid consists of medicines and also milk for children, said Syrian Red Crescent director of operations Hazem Bakla, quoted by state news...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's air strikes killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens in attacks on rebel-held Aleppo city, activists said on Sunday. The aerial bombing has targeted the neighborhood of Katerji in the regime-encircled city of Aleppo, medics said. Russia has killed at least 550...

(Agencies)- The Syrian Kurdish PYD party on Sunday rejected Turkish demands that allied militia withdraw from positions near the border that are being shelled by Turkish army, and warned that Syrians would resist any Turkish intervention in the country. The news comes after close sources to...

Israel voiced doubt on Sunday that an international ceasefire plan for Syria would work, with one senior official suggesting a sectarian partition of the country might be preferable. While formally neutral on the five-year civil war wracking its neighbor, Israel has some sway among the world...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen-dominated villages in the southern countryside of central Hama province in one month that have displaced 10,000 people, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.  The villages of Harbanfaseh,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to intensify diplomatic and other cooperation to implement an agreement on Syria struck at talks in Munich, the Kremlin said in a statement following phone talks between the two leaders on Feb. 14. The Kremlin also said...

NATO ships have begun their mission to combat human traffickers in the Aegean, the alliance’s senior commander said Saturday. Gen. Philip Breedlove said the ships arrived on Friday night. “So in a matter of less than two days a political decision was made, a military response was put together...

Police are investigating a killing at an asylum center in Sweden after a fight broke out among residents. It is the second such incident in a month after a 22-year- old employee at a refugee center for unaccompanied minors was stabbed to death, prompting concerns that authorities...

An ambush by Syrian rebels on pro-regime forces near Damascus this week killed 76 fighters, a monitor said Saturday, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind since the conflict began. Fighters from the powerful Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) rebel group opened fire last Sunday on around 240...

Translation by Yusra Ahemd (Hasaka)- Hundreds of displaced people fleeing ISIS-controlled areas in Syria and Iraq were forced to stay in the refugee camp of Mabroka town in Hasaka countryside, till they find who sponsor them for the Kurdish Self Management to be allowed in areas controlled by...

Turkey’s military shelled Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria on Saturday and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu demanded that the group withdraw from the area in a move that further complicated the conflict across the NATO member's border. The shelling took place after Kurdish YPG fighters...

(The Independent)- Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey's Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria. The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, confirmed the deployment in a statement to the Yeni Şafak newspaper on Saturday, days before a...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday said Turkey would if necessary take military action against the Syrian Kurdish PYD fighters, whom Ankara considers a terror group. "We can if necessary take the same measures in Syria as we took in Iraq and Qandil," Davutoglu said in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia warplanes staged on Saturday air strikes on rebel-held areas in Homs and Hama provinces as regime forces and allied militias step up attacks on the besieged countryside, rebel source said. A rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that regime forces are mobilizing troops to...

 Russia said Saturday a ceasefire deal for Syria agreed by major powers was more likely to fail than succeed, as Syrian government forces backed by further Russian airstrikes gained more ground against rebels near Aleppo. International divisions over Syria surfaced anew at a Munich...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 fighters of regime allied militia have been killed and wounded in rebels' counter-attack on regime-held villages in rural Hama goveronate, activists said Saturday. Rebels of the northern countryside of Homs have attacked two checkpoints of National Defense forces...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- People of al-Waer neighborhood in the central Homs city celebrated Friday their first wholesale vegetable market after three years of shelling and siege as regime allowed a daily 12 tons of vegetables to entering the district in binding to a U.N.-mediated deal. Al-Waer's...

(Al Arabiya English)- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Friday the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was crucial to defeat ISIS. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Jubeir said Assad was responsible for the creation of ISIS by turning Syria into a “fertile ground”...

Syrian rebels have been sent "excellent quantities" of ground-to-ground Grad missiles by foreign backers in recent days, to help them confront a Russian-backed offensive by the government north of Aleppo, two rebel commanders told Reuters on Friday. "It is excellent additional fire power for...

Bashar Assad has vowed to recapture the whole of Syria and keep "fighting terrorism" while also negotiating an end to the war, as international pressure mounts for a ceasefire. His defiant stance, in an exclusive interview with AFP released Friday, doused hopes of an imminent halt to...