Islam Army fighters on Saturday have launched a major attack on an army base northeast Damascus, the clashes are still underway, activists say. Rebels seek to capture Idarat al-Morakabat in Harasta city, a move may cut the international road links between Damascus and Homs. Jaysh...

At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on Saturday. The victims are thought to have suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel after the boat took on water in the hold, the...

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on Monday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and peace efforts in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the meeting would take place...

A Syrian rebel group said on Saturday a ceasefire was over between insurgents and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a town near the Lebanese border and two villages in the northwest. Ahmed Qara Ali, spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham insurgent group, said rebel groups had...

  At least 1200 of Syrian inmates at a main prison in the city of Hama rioted on Friday in a protest against jail conditions and harsh sentences, a monitor and rights activists said on Friday. The roit came to an end, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, after...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fouad Aliko, member of the Political Committee in the Syrian National Coalition for revolutionary Forces and Opposition, a member of the Kurdish national Council, talked to Zaman al-Wasl about the internal differences in the Kurdish...

  (NOW)- A treasure trove of documents leaked from multinational bank HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary have revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s powerful cousin Rami Makhlouf was involved in shady business dealings with an Israeli national.   Alaraby Aljadeed on...

ISIS on Friday has recaptured ground from rebels it has lost this week near the Turkish border in the northern countryside of Aleppo, activists said. The moderate Islamist groups had seized al-Kherba village and neighboring farms from ISIS on Thursday, but it took few hours to be recaptured...

A Russian officer has been killed on Thursday in a missile attack carried out by Islam Army on the Syrian coastal city of Latakia that is a bastion of President Bashar al-Assad, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. The officer was killed in Islam Army's attack on Slinfa resort near Assad's...

The U.S. bombing campaign against Islamic State rebels surged in July as Kurdish fighters pushed into territory held by the militant group in Syria and Iraqi forces prepared an offensive to retake strategic northwestern cities, Pentagon figures showed. The U.S. military spent an average of $4.6...

A ceasefire between the warring sides in a Syrian town and two villages has been extended until Sunday, sources on both sides said on Friday. The ceasefire between rebels on one hand and the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah on the other began on Wednesday. It halted fighting...

It may be paradise for tourists, but Syrian refugees on Kos are desperate to leave the island and start new lives further north after waiting in hellish conditions to get registered. "The road ahead is still long for me. I leave tomorrow. First I will go to Macedonia, then...

Syria's main opposition group Thursday insisted President Bashar Assad must go as it rejected calls to join forces against ISIS jihadis ahead of a meeting with Russia's foreign minister. The head of Syria's National Coalition Khaled Khoja is in Moscow for talks with top diplomat Sergei Lavrov...

U.S.-led forces conducted 12 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria on Wednesday and also targeted the group with 12 strikes in Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday. Strikes in Syria were concentrated near Hassakeh, where five hit tactical units and destroyed fighting positions and a vehicle, the...

(Reporting by Soufian Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tens of rebels in Hafir Alfoka town in the western region of Qalamoun have handed themselves to the Syrian regime as large part of them have joined paramilitary defense forces. a move came to escape the severe siege and warning of...

Syrian rebels on Thursday have taken a ground from Islamic State in northern countryside of Aleppo near the Turkish border as clashes still underway, rebel source said. The moderate Islamist groups have seized al-Kherba village, taking advantage from Turkish support to have an ISIS-free zone on...

At least two people were killed when rockets hit Latakia on Thursday, state media said, in a rare attack on the Syrian coastal city that is a bastion of President Bashar al-Assad. The city has largely been spared the violence of the more than four-year Syrian civil war, which...

Turkish border guards, and in their effort to combat Islamic State and the historic Kurdish enemy PKK, have carried out a series of breaches and crimes against Syrian displaced who are trying to escape fight between conflicting parties in northern Syria. Number of Syrian displaced, including...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday have killed 15 army soldiers and wounded dozens in counter attack on their barrack in northern city of Aleppo, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rajab Abu Yousef, senior commander in al-Shamiya Front, said rebels had rocked army bases in the neighborhoods of...

Syria's warring parties declared a 48-hour ceasefire in two frontline areas on Wednesday after unprecedented mediation from Turkey and Iran, signaling a new approach by some of the main regional backers of the opposing sides. The ceasefire halted fighting between insurgents on the...