The number of people killed in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta has reached 179 after a little over two weeks of government and Russian bombardment, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Government forces backed by Russian warplanes began a campaign...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 25 ISIS militants have been killed and wounded in clashes with Jaish al-Islam in the southern suburbs of Damascus, the rebel group said on Saturday. Daesh (ISIS) launched an attack to take ground lies between the neighborhood of al-Hajer al-Aswad and Yalda district near...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rescuing agency on Saturday accused the regime army of using chlorine gas against the civilians in Douma, main town of the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The Civil Defense said the regime army hit the town of Douma with three surface-to-surface missiles loaded...

Last year Russia brokered a series of cease-fires, or “de-escalation zones,” in Syria, including one with the United States covering the southwest corner of the country. The Kremlin claimed its aim was to wind down the country’s civil war and lay the groundwork for a peace deal between...