Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters opened a major new front in Syria's war, launching an offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a logistics base and appearing to make swift initial battlefield advances. The operation, which began on Tuesday after weeks of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Press Club in Washington D.C. to host Friday Bashar al-Assad's aide and political adviser in a meeting discussing the Islamic Sate future and proper ways to be eliminated. Bouthaina Shaaban, the political and media adviser to al-Assad, to speak via Skype from...

The besieged Syrian town of Daraya, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus where President Bashar al-Assad has refused to allow aid to starving Syrians, got its first U.N. aid convoy since 2012 on Wednesday. Russia's Defence Ministry said a temporary ceasefire, which it called a "regime of calm", had...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Opinions contradicted about the step of forming a interim government inside Syria headed by Dr. Jawad Abu Hatab, who was recently elected following Ahmed Tomeh. The governor of liberated idlib, Bilal Jbairo in his talk to Zaman Al Wasl, described...