Fatha Army fighters have regained control of several villages in northwest Syria from government forces and have advanced beyond them, edging closer to a coastal stronghold of President Bashar Assad, a monitoring group and other sources said on Sunday. The insurgents launched a...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Wide protests started on Saturday in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees in Southern Damascus, condemning the living condition and hunger they suffer from, especially after the cease of aid from the international relief organization especially United nations...

Islamic State fighters on Sunday have seized control of a border  town with Turkey in northern countryside of Aleppo, an advance may hinder Turkish efforts set up its planned buffer zone. The new capture of Om Hosh town, 15 km (10 miles) west of the Turkish border, has followed a fierce...

Two rebel fighters were killed and three wounded on Sunday in regime air strike on Daraya, a poor Sunni community on the south-west outskirts of the capital, activists said. Rebels who announced 'Lahib Daraya' battle have made gains in the northern neighborhood of the town. In retaliation...

  The Fatah Army launched an attack Saturday on the last two Shiite villages under regime control in northwest Idlib province, rebel source and activists said. The alliance of Islamist groups, which includes Al-Qaeda branch the Nusra Front, carried out a new attack on the villages of Foa'...

The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hassakeh, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were...

Syrian regime air force had dropped 2041 barrel bombs on rebel-held areas across Syria last July, leaving 368 people dead, including 83 children and 63 women, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a new report. The Syrian military has been dropping barrel bombs -- crude weapons stuffed...

At least 27 people were killed on Saturday when Syrian regime forces shelled a local market in rebel-held town in Idlib province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. Saturday’s barrel bombs barrages hit the crowded sheep market in Senjar town, leaving dozens killed and wounded, . Two women and a child...

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution on Friday laying the groundwork for an inquiry that would assign blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria's civil war. The resolution asks United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Organization for the...

 A cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan...

(By Soufyan Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abo Ahmed and his children patiently wait for the time to become 8:00pm, because it is the time for the electricity to get connected to their house in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. Abo Ahmed then rushes to everything needs charging and...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked Europe to help in handling tens of thousands of refugees coming in from Syria, Afghanistan and other war zones, saying on Friday his cash-strapped country could not deal with them alone. The influx has piled pressure on Greece's services...

Islamic State militants have captured dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Friday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 230 people were kidnapped or detained,...

At leat 12 people have been killed in Syrian regime air strikes on northern province of Idlib, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 12 civilians were killed in the towns of Arnaba, al-Mouzara, Saraqeb and Ariha. Also, Regime air strikes have killed 3...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Transaltion by Yusra Ahmed) Days after being reelected as a president of the Syrian opposition's National Coalition, Khalid Khoja, in special interview with Zaman al-Wasl is highlighting future agenda and regional developments related to Syrian conflict: Q1- what have...

 The Fatah Army on Friday has seize a new village in Sahl al-Ghab plain, an advance follows a week of gains, activists said while regime supporters lament 27 soldiers killed in the battles. In less than one week, key Islamist rebel group was able to regain villages and hills from regime...

The United States and it allies conducted 27 airstrikes against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Eleven airstrikes were carried out in Syria, including seven near the city of Hassakeh, the U.S. military said in a statement Thursday. In Iraq, militant targets...

The U.S. and Turkey are forging an alliance of convenience to deal with the Syrian crisis, cooperating to create a zone free of militants despite sharp disagreements over the role of Kurdish fighters. After several months of criticism that it was not doing enough to fight militants from ISIS,...

The main Western-backed Syrian opposition, long distrustful of Russia over its backing of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is due to visit Moscow next week amid a renewed diplomatic push to settle the conflict, a source and Russian wires said. The National The main Western-backed Syrian...

Nour el-Din al-Zinki movement has thwarted an attack launched by Syrian forces and allied militias on Salahuddin neighborhood in northern city of Aleppo, killing 17 soldiers, the rebel group said in statement posted online Thursday. The Islamist movement said it repelled regime army in...