(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops on Tuesday broke a more than two-year-old siege by the Islamic State group at a major military air base in the northern province of Aleppo.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces fighting on the side of the Syrian regime, including...

n">Russia wants the Syrian government and opposition to agree on launching a constitutional reform process of up to 18 months, followed by early presidential elections, a draft document obtained by Reuters showed on Tuesday. The eight-point proposal, drawn up by Moscow before...

Syrian refugees who have made it to Germany may be sent on to other European countries, the German Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, an apparent reversal of an earlier policy that suggested all asylum seekers from Syria would be allowed to stay. In August, Germany decided to...

At least 23 people were killed and 40 wounded in two explosions in the Syrian city of Latakia on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, in one of the bloodiest attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's coastal stronghold. The blasts hit two separate areas of the city, one from rocket fire and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 Syrian civilians were killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on the rebel-held town of Douma northeast Damascus, a monitor group an activists said. Field activists said 15 people have been killed and 100 more wounded in cluster bomb attack conducted by...

Pro-government forces in Syria clashed with ISIS fighters around a military air base in the north of the country on Tuesday as they tried to break the extremists' siege of the facility, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces fighting on the side of the Syrian...

Tripoli (AFP) - When young Moroccan Rachid paid $1,500 to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, he never thought he would end up instead in a Libyan detention centre. Just before the 25-year-old was set to leave Libya, local authorities carried out a raid in Garabulli, about 60...

The Greek coastguard on Monday said it had discovered over 300 refugees hidden in a yacht that ran aground near the island of Lesbos. "The coastguard found and rescued 345 refugees," the agency said, adding that the yacht was discovered on Tsonia beach in the northeast of the island....

 Sarah and Ysra Mardini pull bathing caps over their long, black hair and slide into the water, disappearing among the throng of swimmers with powerful, practiced strokes. Two months ago the sisters were swimming for their lives, after jumping off an inflatable boat that began taking on...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of families are missing among 28 thousand people fled ISIS-captured towns of Mahin and Hawarin in the eastern countryside of Homs province due to the daily barrage of Syrian and Russian airstrikes. Most of displaced people headed toward the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels to launch an imminent attack on Maan town in the northern countryside of Hama, seeking to take regime's strategic military base after week of advances. Abu Khaled, An Ajanad al Sham media officer, a rebel group operating under the Army of Conquest, said at least...

Dakar (AFP) - The French army on Sunday bombed an oil supply centre held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Monday. "We intervened in Syria... yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply centre near Deir Ezzor on the border...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unidentified assailants opened fire early Monday on two moderate rebel commanders in southern province of Daraa, leaving one them dead, activists said. Ibrahim al Masalmeh, the commander of Al Omari Martyrs Battalion, has lost his life while his comrade khaled Abazied has...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Syrian regime Sweida News published a video for unannounced meeting a meeting between a group of Druze minority clerics in southern Sweida city and General Wafiq Naser, head of the military intelligence in Druze stronghold.. A spokesman for the...

 Iran will attend the next round of Syria peace talks, a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying Saturday, a week after Tehran threatened to withdraw from the process. World and regional powers including Iran met in Vienna on Oct. 30 to discuss a political...

(The Telegraph)- Britain is "letting down" its allies by not taking part in attacking Isil's key strongholds in Syria, the head of the Armed Forces has said. General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said it "makes no sense" that RAF airstrikes in Iraq stop...

(The Jewish Chronicle)- They came for the last Jews of Aleppo early in the morning. The first that the 88-year-old mother knew of them were the powerful knocks on the front door, a sound that sent her and the rest of the Halabi family cowering in the darkest corners of their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 24 Syrian civilians, including 3 children and a woman, have been killed Sunday in regime and Russian air strikes on a rebel-held areas across the war-torn country, 9 of them were killed in northern Idlib province, a monitor said The Syrian Network for Human Rights said...

The United States and its allies conducted 31 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. The attacks included 12 against fighting units and an Islamic State supply cache in Syria and 19 in Iraq.

Three serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated by photographs in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said on Sunday, suggesting the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign. Russia first launched air strikes to support...