(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group said the Syrian opposition had not involved in direct talks with Iran-allied Shiite militias over the Qatari hunting party who was kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 and released on Friday. Imad el-Din Mujahed said the...

( The Guardian )- Syrian families are naming their children Putin as a mark of gratitude for the Russian president’s support for his Syrian counterpart in the six-year war, a government official has said. The Syrian ambassador in Moscow, Riyad Haddad, said Bashar al-Assad had also made...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The deputy commander of Ahrar Al-Sham Movement told Zaman al-Wasl that most the freed detainees due to the four-town evacuation deal were employees and civilians and no activists or political detainees had been released. Anas Najib said the first batch of released...

Rebels have reached an agreement with the Syrian government for it to release 500 prisoners who will then cross into rebel territory Friday as part of a swap deal between the warring sides, a rebel official told Reuters. Mohamad Abu Zeid, a spokesman for the Ahrar al-Sham faction, said...