Islamic State group fighters have destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities director said Tuesday. IS militants blew up the tombs of Mohammed bin Ali, a descendant of the Prophet's cousin, and Nizar Abu Bahaaeddine, a religious...

A swap deal carried out between Syrian regime and Islam Army last two weeks was behind the release of Justice Minister who was kidnapped by the key rebel group on June 9,  well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. A judicial source said regime security had released 574 detainees mostly...

Islamic State urged its followers on Tuesday to escalate attacks against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a U.S.-led coalition against the ultra-radical group. Jihadists should turn the holy month of Ramadan, which began last week, into a time of "calamity for the infidels...

Abu Emara Battalions on Tuesday said it has assassinated a senior commander in al-Quds Brigade in Aleppo city. The key rebel group that active in northern province of Aleppo said Samer Hamisho, Palestinian militant, was involved in torture crimes when he was working in the disreputable Tadmur...

Activists say Kurdish fighters and their allies have captured an ISIS military base in northern Syria, AP reported. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based activist group, and Kurdish activist Mustafa Bali said Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection...

Syrian state media praised Druze villagers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Tuesday for attacking an Israeli military ambulance they said was carrying two insurgents from a group fighting President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli army said one of the men in the ambulance was killed as a...

ISIS has terminated most of Syrians who work in oil facilities it control in Iraq, saying the hiring priority is for locals, a decision reflects powerful leadership of Iraqis inside the radical group that controls swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, sources said. Islamic State that...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Many of politicians and military experts think that Kurds’ goals of the Syrian revolution are different from the Arabs’, but still they do not feel secure and their future is unclear amid the chaos in the region. Zaman al-Wasl met Haron...

A wounded Syrian was killed on Monday when Israeli Druze attacked an Israeli military ambulance taking him to hospital for treatment, police said. "A crowd attacked an ambulance with stones near Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights," that was transporting two wounded Syrians, a police...

Syrian Kurdish fighters have chased Islamic State militants from a key base north of the jihadists' stronghold city of Raqa, according to a monitoring group. The Kurdish People's Protection Units -- with US-led air support -- took complete control of the Liwa (Brigade) 93 base on Monday, the...

More than 2,000 Syrian refugees who had fled into Turkey crossed back on Monday, security sources and witnesses told Reuters, as a gate reopened a few days after Islamic State militants were ousted from the frontier town of Tel Abyad by Syrian Kurds. Amid tight security on the...

Kurdish-led forces advanced on Monday deep into territory in Syria held by Islamic State, showing new momentum after they unexpectedly swiftly seized a border crossing from the jihadists last week. The Kurds, aided by U.S.-led air strikes and smaller Syrian rebel groups, have pushed to within 7...

U.S.-led coalition forces targeted Islamic State militants with seven air strikes in Syria and 22 in Iraq on Sunday, the combined joint task force leading the operations said in a statement. In Syria, five of the strikes were staged near the Turkish border town of Tel Abyad, where Kurdish...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A WikiLeaks document highlighted Saudi Arabia's effort to support the Syrian Revolution by communicating with different parties and countries including the Vatican to encourage Christians to participate in the revolution. The WikiLeaks document was issued by the...

Israeli Druze blocked an Israeli army ambulance they believed was transporting wounded Syrian rebels Monday, local authorities said, a rare confrontation underscoring Druze concern for brethren caught up in the civil war next door. The Druze are an Arab minority that practice an offshoot of...

A key rebel alliance in Syrian south said in statement issued Saturday the newly-formed Fatah Army in the South is not a national rebel group because it seeks to implement a suspicious agenda on Syrian people which wants to eliminate their free will. The moderate rebel group in Daraa province,...

Islamic State has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, home to Roman-era ruins, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear whether the group was preparing to destroy the...

Syrian regime airstrikes killed 10 people and wounded dozens in northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, activists and local reporter said. The barrel bomb attack on al-Aseela neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo killed 8 civilians and turned their buildings to rubble, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said  ...

  A senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham movement was killed on Sunday by ISIS-linked group Shouhada'a al-Yarmouk in Daraa countryside, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Hamza al-Hariri, Ahrar al-Sham's Emir in Daraa, was assassinated by militant belongs to Shouhada'a...

The official Syrian news agency and activists are reporting a huge explosion in the northeastern town of Qamishli near the Turkish border. The agency says Sunday's attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who targeted a hotel in the predominantly Kurdish town, but the Britain-based Syrian...