(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen-dominated villages in the southern countryside of central Hama province in one month that have displaced 10,000 people, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.  The villages of Harbanfaseh,...

An ambush by Syrian rebels on pro-regime forces near Damascus this week killed 76 fighters, a monitor said Saturday, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind since the conflict began. Fighters from the powerful Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) rebel group opened fire last Sunday on around 240...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- People of al-Waer neighborhood in the central Homs city celebrated Friday their first wholesale vegetable market after three years of shelling and siege as regime allowed a daily 12 tons of vegetables to entering the district in binding to a U.N.-mediated deal. Al-Waer's...

(Brookings- Shadi Hamid)- U.S. policy toward Syria is a fascinating, if depressing, case study. Many of my friends and colleagues who work on Syria—nearly all of them, in fact—have been baffled by President Obama’s approach to the Syrian conflict. The administration’s apparent...