(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Republican Guards forces and notorious Fourth Armored Division have intensified siege on Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of Damascus as rebels refuse to surrender or to evacuate the town in similar scenario to fellow fighters in Homs and Zabadani. Bashar al-Assad's forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Brigade 82 in southern province of Daraa is still under rebels control, field sources told Zaman al Wasl Tuesday, as rebels thwart regime major attack on the strategic military base. Early Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syria's state news agency...

A group of several hundred Syrians from two besieged towns arrived outside Damascus Tuesday after passing through Turkey and Lebanon as part of a rare UN-backed deal to evacuate people from flashpoint areas. A source close to the deal confirmed the arrival of over 300...

The Iraqi army will need Kurdish fighters' help to retake Mosul, the largest city under the control of Islamic State, Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said, with the planned offensive expected to be very challenging. Mosul, 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad, has been designated by the...