Syrian Kurdish leaders aim to secure a Russian-mediated political deal with President Bashar al-Assad’s government regardless of U.S. plans to withdraw from their region, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters. The Kurdish-led administration that runs much of northern Syria presented...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has sent new conscription calls for Eastern Ghouta's young men to perform the military service, activists said Friday. About 4,000 young men have to join the regime army in January as regime seek to enlist about 50,000 people from the eastern enclave...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of of bodies, both of civilians and activists, have been buried in mass graves by the Syrian regime forces in the 3rd Armoured Division northeast of Damascus, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The headquarters of the powerful army...

Syria's Kurds have established an autonomous region during seven years of civil war, but the abrupt decision by their US ally to withdraw has thrown their political future into doubt. Kurdish-led forces control a large swathe of the country's north and northeast, some of it seized from...