The United Nations said Saturday it had mistakenly sent hundreds of boxes of expired biscuits to besieged civilians in rebel-held areas near Damascus as part of a relief convoy earlier this month. A total of 320 out of 650 boxes of high energy biscuits sent to Zabadani and Madaya on Oct. 18...

Syrian regime army backed by National Defense militia (NDF)l has aunched a major assault early Saturday on Sansil and Jawalak frontlines north of Homs city. A fierce fighting reported on the strategic districts in the northern countryside of Homs, activists told Zaman al Wasl. The northern...

Russia's air force in Syria is ready to support the Free Syrian Army, the main Western-backed opposition group battling Bashar al-Assad, in its fight against Islamic State, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. "We are ready to also support patriotic opposition, including...

(Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) “Tow” rockets, has been under spotlight recently, regime-loyal or opposition people follow news about their effects and destruction of regime’s tanks and other military vehicles. Zaman Al Wasl met Sohail, number one  shooter of TOW...

Zaina Erhaim, the Syrian recipient of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, said Thursday she hopes her work can convey "the human side" of the horrific conflict. "I'm not a war zone reporter. I wouldn't be there if it was not my home country," she said ahead of...

Turkey is preparing for tens of thousands more refugees from Syria as government forces and Russian warplanes pound opposition-held areas, and officials said many would try illegally to get to Europe. Syrian government troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, launched an...

Islamic State fighters took control of a section of road southeast of Aleppo on Friday, threatening the Syrian army's only supply route into the city, a group that monitors the civil war said. Islamic State captured parts of a road running between the towns of Khanaser and...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he expects new talks on Syria to begin as soon as next week, and did not rule out participation by Iran, President Bashar al-Assad's closest ally, which has been kept away from past peace conferences. Along with counterparts from...

 A former bodyguard of Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been killed in Syria while defending a religious site near Aleppo, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Friday. "Abdollah Bagheri Niaraki, who for a while was the bodyguard of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was...

The top diplomats of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States started key talks on Friday in Vienna to try to find a way to end the Syrian conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov -- whose government backs Damascus -- was meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry along with...

At least 15 civilians mostly children were killed in Syrian regime air strikes on rebel-held town in the northern countryside of Homs city, according to activists. Local activists said 15 people have lost their lives and dozens wounded in Friday's attack on Talbiseh. The stricken town has been...

 The Army of Conquest launched new battle against Syrian regime troops in central province of Hama late on Thursday, killing 12 soldiers, activists told Zaman Al Wasl. The alliance of Islamist groups, including Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, has mobilized troops reached 24,ooo in the...

Militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad in northern rural Homs have kidnapped 20 women to press on rebels freeing corpses of regime soldiers who were killed in the ongoing clashes, activists said Thursday. Rebels said 15 regime army soldiers have been killed yesterday and 7 tanks and vehicles were...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened talks in Vienna Friday with his Russian, Saudi and Turkish counterparts aimed at reviving a moribund effort to end Syria's civil war. Kerry began a day-long series of meetings in the Austrian capital in consultations with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russia to use its influence over the Syrian regime to stop attacks against civilians and work towards a political solution, but also underlined that al-Assad cannot have a political future in the country. "Al-Assad has to stop hitting its own people...

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian airstrikes have taken ground on Thursday in southern rural Aleppo, activists and rebel commanders said after one-week of heavy bombardments. Zaman Al Wasl reporter said Russia's devastating air strikes that began in the country on Sept. 30,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad had told him he was ready to talk to armed opposition groups if they are genuinely committed to dialogue and to combating Islamic State. Speaking a day after Assad made a surprise visit to Moscow for...

The Syrian regime and Russian warplanes have carried out more than 40 raids in the northern countryside of Homs city on Thursday, local activists said. The regime troops backed by fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah have launched a series of ground offensives western and northwestern...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday that to eliminate militant group Islamic State, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must be removed from power. Jubeir also said that Assad was the magnet "that attracted foreign fighters from all over the world to fight on...

Lebanese politician Wiam Wahhab said in a tweet he wrote Wednesday that Qatar will be targeted in what appears to be a reaction to Qatar’s foreign minister stating that the Gulf country could possibly intervene militarily in Syria.  “If Qatar implements its military threats in Syria, Doha...