(Zaman Al Wasl-Exclusive)- An exclusive video obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed 54 hostages, including women and children, were held captive by rebels in Latakia countryside for over 17 months. The hostages accused Bashar al-Assad regime of...
(Reuters) - Kurdish forces took full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Monday, driving out the last group of Islamic State fighters after nearly four months of battles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The Syrian...
(Reuters) - Syrian opposition representatives met in Moscow on Monday at the start of a meeting which the Damascus government will join later this week in efforts to revive peace talks. Nearly four years into a war that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced...
(Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad has said U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria should be subject to an agreement with Damascus and Syrian troops should be involved on the ground. Assad was speaking in an interview with the U.S.-based Foreign Affairs...
(CNN) - Kurdish fighters are claiming progress in their fight against ISIS and now control at least 90% of the embattled Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Monday. Fighters belonging to the People's Protection Units, known as YPG, advanced in the neighborhood of...
(RUDAW) - Syrian opposition leaders meet in Moscow today for preliminary talks, before they are joined by a delegation from Damascus later this week. A number of opposition leaders from inside and outside Syria have traveled to Moscow to attend a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army group on Sunday has pounded Damascus neighborhoods by more than 100 rockets, killing 10 civilians and 5 troopers, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. Katyusha missiles and hand-made rockets of Sahm al-Islam have...
Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Conference of Syria’s opposition factions in Cairo this Saturday identified a 10-point vision outlining the future opposition’s meetings, while the National Coalition has not...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Sunday have captured strategic Sheikh Miskeen town south the war-torn country after months of heavy fighting with forces loyal to Basher al-Assad, activists said. The fighters of Southern Front have taken...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army group on Sunday has pounded Syrian regime strongholds in Damascus by rockets and mortar fire, five people killed, activists say. Zaharan Alloush, the commander of the Islamist faction which controls Eastern Ghouta...
(The Independent)- A hungry young Syrian child was beaten by a manager at a branch of Burger King in Istanbul for eating a customer’s left over food. The incident occurred at the branch in Şirinevler earlier in the week, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. Shocked...
Report by Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) Introduction The first extremist foreign militias to emerge in Syria were’t Daesh or An-Nussra Front where months before their emergence, non-Arabic fighters appeared in Syria....
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Hasakah (Zaman Al Wasl)- Democratic Union Party “PYD” has arrested 500 youth in Malikiah, Eastern Hasakah within two days, as a part of the mandatory military recruiting in their battalions....
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A member of the National Coalition revealed that value of kind aid the Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU) managed to deliver to camps since the snow storm reached to $. 2.5 million. In a letter to the Coalition, the member...
(AFP)- Syria’s opposition factions called Saturday for “radical democratic change” in the war-torn country ahead of April talks aimed at unifying their plan for a political solution to the conflict. In a two-day conference held in Cairo, the...
(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the first group of about 100 U.S. troops to head to the Middle East in the next few days to establish training sites for Syrian opposition fighters battling Islamic State militants, the Pentagon said on Friday. Admiral...
(Reuters) - Fighting broke out between Lebanese troops and gunmen on Friday in an area that has seen repeated incursions by Islamist militants fighting in Syria's war, the Lebanese army said in a statement. It said a large number of gunmen had been killed and a number of...
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon painted a worsening picture of the war in Syria, citing widespread conflict, indiscriminate government bombing, opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. In...
ِThe death toll of the Syrian regime air strike on Hamoria village near Damascus has topped 65, opposition activists said on Friday . Syrian government officials were not immediately available to comment on the reported attack in Hamoria, a district in the Eastern Ghouta...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of Syria’s capital have threatened to breach the cease-fire truce if the siege would be continue on the southern suburbs of Damascus. Jihadist Shura Council, rebel group, demanded Syrian regime to open Babbila crossing and to let aid and basic food...
