( Syria Direct )- The Victory Army and Syrian regime representative exchanged prisoners Tuesday in the Idlib countryside according to several opposition and regime sources. Conflicting accounts have emerged of who was released in Ariha, site of one of the last remaining regime bases in Idlib...

The United States said on Tuesday it was falling far behind plans to build a Syrian opposition force to battle Islamic State, disclosing that just 60 fighters were in training after U.S. vetting thinned the number of recruits. The U.S. military launched its program in May to...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tens of displaced families from ancient city of Palmyra have arrived Gaziantep, Turkish border city, fleeing ISIS-captured city and to escape daily barrel bombs attacks by Syrian regime, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. People who managed to escape Palmyra...

Syrian Turkmen military and political officials, who are close to Turkey, have been moving to form a unified army in northern Syria capable of confronting the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror group. “Turkmen fighting groups in Syria have taken...

Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement on Tuesday has seized control of two checkpoint in Zabadani region, an advance came as Syrian regime army and its allied Hezbollah militia waging a major offensive on the border city with Lebanon started on Saturday. In statement posted online, Ahrar al-Sham said...

Syrian Kurdish fighters have recaptured more than 10 villages seized by ISIS north of its de facto capital of Raqqa, aided by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, the activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday. Fighters from the ultra-hardline Islamist group were,...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Ministry of Culture and Family Affairs in the Syrian Interim Government this week agreed to establish three directorates for education and family affairs and monuments in the Northern Countryside of Homs. Zaman al-Wasl learnt that Samah Hadaya, the Minister of...

The army of terror just took out two of the good guys—young activists from a grassroots NGO documenting the atrocities in Raqqa—in its latest snuff video. And there’s more to come. The slow-motion destruction of Syria has produced as much cynicism as it has heartache, but let no...

A suicide bomber from Syria's al Qaeda offshoot the Nusra Front blew himself up in a Syrian army outpost in a contested neighborhood in the divided northern city of Aleppo and killed at least 25 soldiers and allied militia and injured scores, a monitor said. The UK based...

President Barack Obama pledged to increase U.S. support for the moderate opposition in Syria's civil war on Monday and said the United States needed to do more at home to prevent attacks and combat Islamic State efforts to recruit followers. Obama, speaking during a visit to the...

Cash for educating children caught up in disasters, ranging from the war in Syria to the earthquake in Nepal, needs to rise sharply to cope with a surge in the number of young refugees, a U.N. envoy said on Monday. "While the need is rising, aid is currently falling," former...

An ISIS-linked group on Sunday thwarted Nusra Front's assault on a town it controls south Syria, killing 24 Nusra fighters, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Last few months, Shouhada al-Yarmouk Brigade that pledged allegiance to the ultra-hardline Islamist group has engaged in fierce fighting with...

Islamic State fighters stormed a Syrian town held by Kurdish-led forces near Raqqa city on Monday, part of a wider offensive by the militants two days after their de facto capital was hit by some of the heaviest U.S.-led air strikes in the conflict. The Kurdish YPG militia said...

(Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Reem, a 14-year-old girl was detained in med 2014 by Syrian regime under terrorism claims with 17 family members, including her mother, father and a 10-year-old brother. Reem and her mother, sisters and brother were arrested in government-held...

  From his fields in Turkey, farmer Huseyin Ozdemir can see Islamist militants digging trenches and planting mines as they ready for battle around the northern Syrian town of Jarablus. Like many villagers along this stretch of Turkey's 900 km (560-mile) border, Ozdemir...

To view tens of identity cards belong to pro-Syrian regime National Defense militia, click Here . The card-list that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed a remarkable presence for women supporting Bashar al-Assad among the paramilitary group. In  relevant development, a group of Syrian...

A group of Syrian hackers who oppose Syrian regime published online a wanted list issued by Bashar al-Assad regime includes names of 15000 army defectors and civilians. 'Hackers of the Syrian Revolution' is the rival electronic group of regime's Syrian Electronic Army. The group hacked before...

The barren mountains separating the Lebanese village of Qaa from Syria have helped shield it from the war raging next door, yet fears of missile attacks, abductions and incursions have persisted since the conflict erupted more than four years ago. In recent weeks, residents of...

The Syrian regime army and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters said on Sunday they had entered the rebel-held city of Zabadani on the second day of a major offensive to capture the border area around the Beirut-Damascus highway, Reuters reported . The regime army, backed by Hezbollah...

Islamic State suicide bombers on Sunday blew up an explosive- laden truck near a power plant that serves the northeastern city of Hasaka, the latest attack after their expulsion from most parts of the city, the Syrian army said. State television said a second attack, against a power plant that...