(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 338 people, including 69 children and 47 women, have been killed in three-week-old offensive on Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Syrian capital, local monitoring group said in report issued Wednesday. The central department of statistics and documentation in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- French and Russian air strikes in northern Syria have killed at least 33 jihadists with the Islamic State group in the last 72 hours, AFP said on Wednesday. Dozens of IS fighters were also wounded in the raids on weapons depots, barracks and checkpoints in the jihadists' de...

A Syrian cease-fire could be in place within weeks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with U.S. news channel CNN, Kerry said a growing coalition including Russia and Iran “gives us an opportunity to perhaps get a ceasefire in place within the next...

(Naharnet)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch al-Nusra Front has demanded control over two regime-held Syrian towns near Lebanon and the release of five women from Lebanese jails in return for freeing the captive Lebanese servicemen, a spokesman for the hostages' families said on Monday. “Al-Nusra's...