(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched a surprise attack on regime checkpoints in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, targeting the government-held neighborhoods, local activists said. The attack started early on Sunday were both sides had exchanged mortar and artillery shelling in the...

  Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A cessation of hostilities in Syria took effect three...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has on Monday, the first day of the second round of Geneva3 talks to resolve the Syrian crisis, suddenly announced decision of withdrawing the majority of its forces from Syria the very next day, according to President Vladimir Putin and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish internal security forces arrested 60 members of National Defense Forces, a pro-regime militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli Wednesday, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network...