The top U.N. human rights official repeated his call on Wednesday for a dilution of big powers' United Nations veto in cases of serious war crimes, but he gave little support to Syrian opposition hopes of strong-arming Russia over eastern Aleppo. Russian war planes have bombed rebel-held...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Russian news agency TASS photographer, Valeriy Sharifulin, published recently a set of photos taken in regime-controlled areas of Aleppo, Damascus and Palmyra. Sharifulin revealed through his commentary on the photos-probably without knowing-...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A committee subordinate to Hasaka Education Directory of regime government started to test sixth grade students coming from schools which adopted Kurdish self-administration curriculum of Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Hasaka province. The regime education directory refused...

The Turkish army killed at least 47 Daesh terrorists in northern Syria in the past 24 hours as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the military said on Wednesday. The Turkish Air Force carried out airstrikes and launched artillery fire against Daesh positions in several areas of northern...