(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels pressed new gains on Tuesday, taking a village and two checkpoints northeast of Hama city after a week of surprise offensive allowed them to take remarkable territory in the northern countryside of the central province, activists said. The attack is being led by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce fighting reported between ISIS and Kurdish militias in the southern countryside of Hasaka province as tens of families have been fleeing their villages near al-Shadadi town, activists said Tuesday. Malaz Yousef, Hasaka-based activist, said the Islamic State launched...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20,000 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been mobilized in government-held area in al-Ghab Plain and Latakia province to launch major offensive on the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The ongoing battles northeast Hama have...

 When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...