(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front rebels launched new attack early Wednesday on regime army in the northern frontline of Sheikh Miskeen town in Daraa province, sources said. 'Ahl al-Nakhwa' battle has left number of regime soldiers dead and two tanks destroyed, field commander said....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime and rebel bombardment killed at least 20 civilians and wounded dozens in the capital and a nearby Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Wednesday, state media and am activist group said. Mortar rounds fired from the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region onto residential...

(Zaman Al Wals)- Powerful Islam Army group arrested two brothers in Eastern Ghouta suburbs east of Damascus over links with the Islamic State, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Nasif al-Mohamed, 24, and his brother Ahmed, 17, who work in local relief associations in Yelda suburb, were...

(The Guardian)- Islamic State militants murdered a journalist who wrote about daily life in occupied Raqqa, having accused her of being a spy, activists have confirmed. Ruqia Hassan, 30, was killed in September, but news of her death became widely known this week after Isis claimed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unidentified assailants killed Tuesday top commander of Ahrar al-Sham movement in the central Homs province, the powerful Islamist group said in statement. Ahrar's Shura Council member and its Emir in Homs province, Mohamed Hassan al-Said, was killed when unknown armed men...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime staged its aerial and ground bombardment on the southern suburbs of Damascus Tuesday, targeting Daraya with 4 surface-to-surface missiles, activist said. For two weeks, Syrian Republican Guards and notorious Division 4 have intensified siege on Moadamiya town and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- Despite the snowstorm that has been sweeping the central province of Homs for a week, rebels of al-Hola region keep their alert high.   One of Ahrar al-Sham fighters said rebels should be awake all the time to avoid any surprise attack by Syrian regime...

Saudi Arabia is determined that tensions with Iran should not derail international talks on Syria, another round of which is scheduled to take place in Geneva this month, the U.N. special envoy for Syria said on Tuesday. The United Nations has set a target date of Jan. 25 for the...

Roman Catholic officials said Tuesday that a Franciscan priest who had been abducted by militants in Syria has been freed. The custodian of the Catholic Church's properties in the Holy Land said the priest, Rev. Dhiya Azziz, was released late Monday. The office of the custodian, Rev....

  Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the...

The U.S.-led coalition on Monday staged 20 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in its latest daily attacks on the militant group, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force said 19 strikes near six...

Turkey's gendarmerie said it found the bodies of 21 migrants, three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after their boat apparently capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs have reported a new breach to the U.N.-brokered deal reached last month as the main crossing has been locked this week, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The rare ceasefire deal reached on December 10 stated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels are pressing slow advances in the ongoing Sheikh Miskeen battles in the southern Daraa province, senior commander told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Fauzi al-Nassar, commander of al-Sanamayn Martyrs Brigade, said rebels have achieved progress  in the surrounding district...

A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report the United Nations released on Monday. The findings come in the latest monthly...

The U.N. peace envoy for Syria was traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday ahead of a visit to Iran for talks aimed at defusing tensions between the two regional heavyweights, the U.N. spokesman said. Staffan de Mistura was due to arrive in Riyadh later Monday amid fears that the furore over the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of female activists in the rebel-held town of Douma northeast the capital has launched a campaign shedding the light on the deteriorating situation of education in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs where thousands of children have no education. "I Have The Rights To Learn"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 26 Syrian armed opposition groups, in statement issued Monday, said it endorse and support the Saudi Arabia's step in cutting diplomatic ties with Iran amid rising sectarian tensions sparked by the Saudis' decision to execute a leading Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The...

The head of the Western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) will visit China this week, as Beijing seeks to deepen ties with all sides in the conflict to help bring about a peaceful resolution. SNC president Khaled Khoja will be in China from Tuesday to Friday will meet Chinese...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 40,000 Syrian people have been left for death of hunger in the mountainous town of Madaya near Damascus for over six months due to the regime's suffocating siege, local activists and footage showed. Two people reported killed on Sunday by Hezbollah fighters during...