A Syrian regime airstrike on the northern Syrian town of al-Bab near Aleppo killed at least 23 people, including 3 children and 3 women, and wounded dozens on Saturday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said as a barrel bomb pounded a crowded local market. Activists said the deadly attack on...

Lebanese militia group Hezbollah said on Friday that the Syrian army's resistance to recent large-scale rebel attacks had disproved predictions that President Bashar al-Assad's days were numbered. In a speech to mark the annual pro-Palestinian "Quds day", Lebanese Shi'ite...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syria's Salamiyeh city in the eastern countryside of Hama province is no longer surrounded with fear in the east, sadness and dust in the south like what Mohammed al-Maghout, the city’s well-known poet,  described it years ago. Today, Salamiyeh is surrounded...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Almost 1000 days passed on the big battle of Daraya which was an exceptional in resistance and fighting against uncountable attacks and attempts of the Syrian regime and its militias to invade the poor Sunni community on the south-west outskirts of the capital town....

A mortar round fired by Islamic State militants caused a major blaze at a Syrian government headquarters building in the northeastern city of Hasaka and firefighters had put it out, state television said on Friday. The ultra hardline jihadists hit a civilian ID and passport office...

Turkey would struggle to cope with a new influx of refugees from Syria's civil war, and many of them would likely end up trying to get into Europe, Turkey's EU Affairs minister warned in comments published on Friday. Turkey is already sheltering close to 2 million Syrian migrants,...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has recaptured districts that lost last April in Yarmouk refugee camp after a counter attack on regime forces in the embattled district in Damascus, killing 25 soldiers and militants, activists said on Thursday. Activists said Nusra had taken buildings...

A key rebel group operating under Southern Front in Daraa province, said over disputes with other rebel groups it will not continue its mission as a guardian of Nasib border crossing which rebels had captured last April, according to statement issued Wednesday. Yarmouk Army said some rebel...

ISIS fighters on Wednesday have pressed advances in the eastern countryside of Homs province, getting closer to government-held city of Homs, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The ultra-hardline Islamist group took more districts near Furuqlus town that situated on the eastern gate of...

The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday, adding that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015. "This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation. It is a...

An airstrike by Syrian regime in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 15 people, including 6 children, on Wednesday as helicopter gunships pounded a rebel-held neighborhood, activists said. Zaman al-Wasl local reporter said the bombing had targeted Ibad al-Rahman mosque in al-Bab...

A Syrian Kurdish militia on Wednesday recaptured a town that had been stormed by Islamic State fighters earlier this week north of the jihadist group's base of operations in Raqqa city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Islamic State fighters had stormed the town...

Purported supporters of the hardline Islamic State group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog on Wednesday and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria's war. The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday have taken control of al-Hamidiya village in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels, also, took control of al-Qarea checkpoint near strategic Khanaser town after fierce fighting with Syrian regime forces and allied Shiite...

At least 45 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants have died after eating a poisoned iftar meal, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported, It is thought that a group of 145 ISIS militants had sat together to break their fast, but only 100 survived the meal, the report added....

The United States and its allies conducted 31 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Monday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released early Wednesday. In Syria, the strikes were focused near Tal Abyad, where seven bomber, fighter and...

A drone strike as part of a U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State militants killed a senior figure from the hardline group in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa city, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The strike killed an Uzbek leader of the group involved in security as he sat in a...

( Syria Direct )- More than 50 regime barrel-bomb and conventional airstrikes pummeled rebel-held villages in Daraa province Tuesday after the launch of a renewed Southern Storm rebel offensive to wrest the provincial capital from regime control one day before, reported the pro-opposition “We...

 Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) is planning to build a new refugee camp in the southern town of Kilis, in order to accommodate for the ongoing influx of Syrian refugees, reports Turkish news site Hürriyet Daily. “Such a refugee inflow scares us. That would...

Syrian rebels in control of the spring that provides most of Damascus’s drinking water have threatened to shut off pipelines to the capital if the regime and Hezbollah continue their offensive in Zabadani. Pro-regime daily Al-Akhbar highlighted the danger on Tuesday, writing that “feelings of...