(Zaman Al Wals)- Syrian regime warplanes on Monday have staged 14 strikes on the northern countryside of central Homs province, killing 5 people and wounding 15, local reporter said. Three women, child and a man were the victims of the aerial campaign on the rebel-held town of al-Rastan. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior Nusra Front commander has been assassinated in the eastern countryside of Daraa province on Monday, activists said. Abu Raghad also dubbed  al-Bashiq was shot dead near Om al-Mayathen town in eastern Daraa. No rebel group has claimed the responsibility for his...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll has risen to 35, including 20 children, for Russian air strikes at a school in Syria's Aleppo province on Monday, monitor and activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the strike in the town of Anjara also injured at least 20 people, all...

Aid convoys have entered for besieged Syrian town of Madaya where thousands are trapped and people are reported to have died of starvation, Reuters said. Trucks headed for Madaya, near the Lebanese border, and two villages in the northwest of the country on Monday, the Red Cross said,...

Pope Francis on Monday urged European governments to keep welcoming migrants while acknowledging security and other concerns over the recent mass influx of people mainly from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Addressing ambassadors to the Holy See in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve...

(The Daily Beast)- Lebanese Hezbollah field commanders with troops fighting in Syria tell The Daily Beast they are receiving heavy weapons directly from Russia with no strings attached. The commanders say there is a relationship of complete coordination between the Assad regime in Damascus,...

Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to ease the pressure on them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's minister for European Affairs, said on Monday. The number of people immigrating illegally exceeded 150,000 in 2015, and Turkish authorities stopped 500 migrants...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rehabilitation and physiotherapy centre in Reyhanli, a Turkish border city with Syria, is about to shut down due to lack of funds, leaving its Syrian patients wondering of their future medical and clinical conditions, or even how to afford for...

Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance towards refugees. Marking a sharp jump from the caseload of 379 given on...

Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate briefly detained two of the country's most prominent media activists who worked at a radio station in the northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, their employer said. Raed Fares and Hadi al-Abdallah were released about 12 hours after their abduction, Fresh FM said in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground on Sunday from ISIS in the northern countryside of Aleppo near the Turkish border, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have captured towns of Qura Cobri, Qura Mazra'a and al-Kherba which had been controlled by ISIS two weeks ago. Omar...

The death toll of Russian air strikes in Syria's Idlib province has nearly reached 100, as several dozen of those who were critically injured in the attacks on Saturday have died, a volunteer rescue group reports. "After 32 hours of our rescue operation, and following the deaths of...

By Louisa Loveluck and Ben Farmer (The Daily Telegraph)- Senior British politicians are leading calls for the RAF to drop aid to a besieged Syrian town where thousands of civilians are starving to death....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aisha al-Hajiri, or Om Omar, a widow in her fifties from Arsal, has devoted her life after her husband’s death to help the disabled, although she is not that affluent, but she has turned her 2-room-house into a center to look after disabled and those...

Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate stormed a radio station and abducted two prominent media activists from a rebel-held northwestern town today, an opposition official told AFP. "Al-Nusra Front kidnapped at 0655 (local time) activists Hadi al-Abdallah and Raed Fares in the offices of Fresh...

(Independent)- Supporters of the Syrian regime are sharing photos of their dinners to taunt thousands of starving civilians in a besieged town . The hashtag #متضامن_مع_حصار_مضايا, meaning “solidarity with the siege of Madaya ”, has sparked a new wave of outrage over the continuing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists reported fierce clashes on Saturday between rebels and regime troops backed by their Hezbollah militia in the southern town of Sheikh Miskeen in Daraa province. Bashar al-Assad's forces backed by fighters from Hezbollah have launched major offensive two weeks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes killed at least 51 people in the rebel-held town of Maarat al-Nouman in the northern province of Idlib on Saturday when it struck a court house and an adjacent prison, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists reported. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  The planned Geneva talks between Syria's warring parties on Jan.25 might get delayed, well-informed opposition sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The situation on the ground is not boding well as the Syrian regime keeps its aerial and ground campaign along with the starvation...

 The aid will be delivered on Monday to the besieged town of Madaya at the Lebanese border as 63 people have been killed due to a six-month-old siege imposed by the Syrian regime. The United Nation said the deal agreed on Saturday will also allow aid be deliverd simultaneously to two...