(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists and ISIS say the militants have seized a district previously held by Syrian troops in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, AP reported. The industrial district of Deir Ezzor fell to the group late Wednesday following an attack and fierce clashes between the two...

Syria is ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help it form a national unity government, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Thursday during a visit to Beijing. The U.N. Security Council last Friday unanimously approved a...

The Japanese government is seeking information after reports a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage in Syria and has been threatened with execution, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said this week...

A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach. Bouthaina Shaaban said her government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's barrel bombs have killed seven people from the same family in the southern province of Daraa, activists said Wednesday. Father, mother and their five children have lost their lives in Sheikh Miskeen after targeting their neighborhood with 4 barrel bombs. Syria...

Amnesty International said on Wednesday that nearly three months of Russian air raids in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians, many in targeted strikes that could constitute war crimes. Some strikes "appear to have directly attacked civilians or civilian objects by striking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Media activists of the besieged Moadamiyet al-Sham town, western Damascus, said regime forces have shelled the town with 60 mortar rounds and 7 barrel bombs on Wednesday, hours after 10 people killed in regime's sarin gas attack. Moadamiyet al-Sham, also known as Moadamiya,...

Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud accused Syrian President Bashar Assad Wednesday of having aided the rise of ISIS and called for a political settlement with moderate forces to end the war there. The solution would be to form "a transitional government made up of moderate opposition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs have been under fierce aerial and ground shelling for the sixth day, activists said Wednesday as 11 people have been killed in the recent 48 hours. Early Wednesday, Syrian regime warplanes carried out four air strikes on...

The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body on a Turkish beach became a symbol of the refugee crisis, has made a Christmas appeal to the world to open its doors to Syrians fleeing conflict. The message, to be broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 on Christmas Day, comes after...

Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the air raids had violated humanitarian law. "Russian air strikes in Syria have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people, including a child, have been killed late on Tuesday in a sarin gas attack on the besieged Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of the capital, activists said. The town's main hospital said 10 people were killed including a 12-year-old boy due to targeting their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have executed a swindler in Damascus suburbs after a tragic crime he committed against his 3-year-old boy weeks ago, activists said Tuesday. Liwa al Ghorabaa brigade active in al-Tall town, about 10 miles ( 14 km) north of Damascus, have executed Imad Muhsin, a...

A senior Bavarian politician said on Tuesday that refugees with forged Syrian passports have disappeared in Germany and there are grounds for suspicion that they may have had contact with Islamic State militants, German media reported. The minister spoke after top-selling daily...

Syria's foreign minister will visit China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, amid a renewed bid by Beijing to play a more active role in finding an end to conflict in the Middle East. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem will be in China from Dec. 23 to Dec. 26 and...

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in one of his rare public appearances, attended the Muslim celebration of Mawlid marking the Prophet Mohammed's birthday in a Damascus mosque Tuesday, state media reported. The ceremony, broadcast on state television, was held in Al-Akram mosque in the capital's...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Jordanian authorities on Monday arrested Elaph Qaddah, a Syrian journalist who fled the Syrian regime's crackdown four years ago, sources told Zaman Al Wasl. Qaddah who was born in southern Daraa province is facing the threat of extradition to Syria since he is on the...

(Zaman AL Wals)- Russian air strikes on an Eastern Ghouta suburb near Damascus have killed at least 30 people, the Revolution Local Committees said Tuesday.    The local monitoring group said at least 30 civilians have been killed and dozens wounded in vacuum missile attacks on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have taken a border town with Turkey in northern Aleppo province from the Islamic State fighters, according to  Zaman al Wasl's  local reporter. The rebel factions operating under Marea Command Room said they have seized full control...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The radical Islamic State group claimed Tuesday it had shot down two Syrian regime warplanes in the mountainous Qalamoun region near Damascus, according to the group's news agency. No more information has been disclosed by ISIS' official news agency...