The Syrian regime army on Monday recaptured from insurgents a strategic town in the southern province of Daraa after fierce fighting, securing its supply routes from the capital to the south, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting is...

The United Nations said on Monday it would issue invitations for marathon Syrian peace talks to begin this week, but opposition groups signaled they would stay away unless the government and its Russian allies halt air strikes and lift sieges on towns. The first talks in two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Nusra Front fighters raided a cannabis depot near the town of Maaret al Nouman in northern Idlib province, activists said Monday. Al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, has confiscated large quantity of cannabis and weapons in al-Gadfa village near Maaret al-Nouman,...

Eighteen people were killed, including children, when an ISIS car bomb rocked the Al-Sukkari neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday. A pro-opposition Civil Defense source told Anadolu Agency that the car bomb was detonated near a prison linked to the opposition Ahrar al-Sham...

Peace talks between the warring parties in Syria, which were scheduled to open Monday, will begin in Geneva on Jan. 29 and will last for six months, the U.N.'s Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said. De Mistura told reporters that the start date was pushed back because of a "stalemate" over the...

Syrian peace talks meant to begin this week were stalled on Monday partly over the question of who would represent the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he expected clarity within a day or two, and expressed support for the United Nations...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters launched a surprise attack on regime bastions in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, started late on Sunday with a suicide attack, local activists said. ISIS has targeted a regime base near the Euphrates Hotel, killing number of soldiers, including...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he hoped for "clarity" within 24 to 48 hours on Syrian peace talks that were supposed to have started in Geneva on Monday, and that it was better to delay a few days than to have them crumble at the start. Kerry told reporters on a visit to Laos he agreed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten people have been killed in Russia's missile attack on the northern town of Salqin near Turkish borders, activists said Monday. Activists said the two vacuum missiles that fired into Idlib's key town were launched from a Russian warship based in the Mediterranean...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Twelve rebel factions operating in southern Daraa province, in statement issued on Sunday, said it will fight al-Muthanna Islamic Movement over its mounting violations.   Early Sunday, al-Muthanna movement attacked a rebel checkpoint in the border town of Nasib in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have recaptured two towns in the northern countryside of Aleppo from the Islamic State after fierce fighting that left 20 ISIS fighters dead, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. On Saturday, ISIS captured the border towns of al-Bel and Braghida, and neighboring...

The lead negotiator in the Syrian opposition said on Sunday it was coming under pressure from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to attend peace talks in Geneva this week in order to negotiate over steps including a halt to air strikes. The opposition's High Negotiation Committee, which groups...

A senior official in Syrian President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath party says the government will not make any new concessions in future peace talks. Hilal al-Hilal's comments come ahead of scheduled peace talks in Geneva in the coming days to work on ending Syria's nearly five-year conflict,...

 Syrian pro-government forces recaptured the rebel-held town of Rabiya in the western coastal province of Latakia Sunday, Reuters said. The advance, with the backing of Russian airstrikes and directed partly by Russian officers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It paved the...

At least 47 people, including nine children, have died in Russia air strikes on a town in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The raids on Khasham near the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday were among a series of strikes that also hit two other town and others...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday he was confident Syria peace talks would proceed, after he held talks with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in Saudi Arabia. "We are confident that with good initiative in the next day or so those talks can get going and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham movement on Saturday raided a cultural center in northern Aleppo city and arrested it's director, activists said. Mohammed Qawwas who runs Abjad cultural center was released hours later with signs of physical assault. Qawwas said the Islamic police that...

 Jordan's army said border guards killed 12 people trying to enter the kingdom from Syria in a clash on the frontier on Saturday. An armed forces general command official said the 12 were killed in a clash between border guards and a group of 36 people, some armed, trying to cross from...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria should the Syrian government and rebels fail to reach a political settlement. The latest round of Syria peace talks are planned...

Twenty-seven-year-old Mamun Khalid Nasir is thankful to be alive, but he is now bedridden. It all happened almost a year ago, after he was injured by a barrel bomb dropped by Assad regime helicopters in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. The father of five has since lost his legs and the...