Damascus (AFP)- Two simultaneous suicide attacks killed four people and wounded 13 on Monday in southern Damascus near a Shiite shrine, Syria's state news agency SANA reported. The agency, quoting police, said the twin attack took place at a...
BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy clashes raged in northeastern Syria on Monday as Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants battled for control of a string of villages near the Iraqi and Turkish borders. The Kurds have long been one of the most effective foes of the Islamic State group, a...
By Laila Bassam and Tom Perry DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The world will have to cooperate with Syria to halt the trade in looted antiquities that helps fund jihadist groups, Syria's culture minister said, putting the onus on Turkey to stop the smuggling across their...
(Reuters) - Around 4,000 refugees have trickled back to the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani but many are wary of returning to the site of a four-month battle between Kurdish and Islamic State forces, officials said on Monday. Much of the town of over 200,000 was destroyed by the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's opposition group the National Coalition has appointed Judge Fayez al-Dhaher as the General Secretary of the Interim government on Sunday. Al-Dhaher was the Justice Minister of Ahmed Tomeh's government which dissolved last...
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(Reuters) - Syria n Kurdish forces advanced against Islamic State fighters in two separate attacks in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border on Sunday, an organization tracking the war reported, compounding recent losses for the militant group in Syria. The Kurdish YPG militia...
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein: translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 people were killed on Sunday by air strikes of U.S.-led Coalition in a village northeast city of Hasaka, activists reported as 6 others were killed by...
Reporting by Abu Abdullah Al Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new negotiation team is supposed to meet with the Syrian regime to re-open Babila crossing point to let food in Southern Damascus countryside. Well-informed...
By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many activists of aid and relief died in Palestinian camps during the war in Syria, either by the heavy shelling on camps, or by snipers, or even died under torture in detention...
(AFP) - A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed four people on Sunday in an unprecedented attack on a hospital that took Syria’s civil war to the ruling Assad clan’s hometown for the first time, a monitoring group said. The attack came as the Syrian Observatory for Human...
The Turkish General Staff announced on Sunday that Turkey’s precious relics were transferred to a new location in Syria, over which the Turkish flag is flying, and that no Turkish forces, tanks or equipment were left behind. The Turkish General...
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(Anadolu News Agency)- Around 2,000 Syrian fighters will take part in a train-and-equip program in Turkey starting from early March, Turkish foreign minister said Friday. Addressing a joint press conference with Turkey’s EU Minister Volkan Bozkir, Justice Minister...
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A map was published by Nori Brimo, the Member of the National Kurdish Council which shows the area of Syrian Kurdistan, has provoked countless queries among observers, who...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- 48 civilians were massacred by Syrian regime forces after being used as human shields in Hardatneen village in the northern countryside of Aleppo, rebels said as they recaptured the village Friday. Al-Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front...
(Reuters) - A monitoring group said on Saturday Syrian government forces and allied militants killed 48 fighters and family members during last week's offensive against opposition-held areas in Aleppo province, but the army denied it. "I deny completely such an act that cannot be...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda’s Syria wing Nusra Front backed by Islamist rebels on Friday have taken full control of Hardatneen village in the northern countryside of Aleppo, arresting 8 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad, activists said....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's opposition group the National Coalition issued new procedures related to the financial supervision and administrative control for its institutions and embassies, Zaman al-Wasl source said. The Coalition’s general commission...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) denied information reported in Zaman al-Wasl’s article said the key Palestinian group had formed a militant group loyal to Bashar al-Assad to operate inside the...
