Evacuations of rebel fighters and civilians including wounded from the last opposition-held areas of Syria's Aleppo gathered pace early on Friday under a ceasefire that would see the government retake the city, monitors and a rebel official said. There was no sign, however, of...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Battalion of “Ansar al-Sham, key rebel unit in the coastal Latakia province said Thursday it had merged with powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel group. The online statement said the new step come in solidarity with people and fighters in Aleppo, and a response to people’s...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the Kremlin’s bombing campaign in Syria last year to back up leader Bashar Assad, the regime’s forces were being pushed back. Now Damascus is celebrating its biggest victory in over five years of war after recapturing control of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 352  regime army soldiers and allied militants have been killed in a week of intense fighting with the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Homs province as the radical group recaptured the historic city of Palmyra, the group-run news agency Amaq reported....