Syria's devastating war has killed more than 280,000 people, activists said Thursday in a new toll for the five-year conflict. The toll of 282,283 includes 81,436 civilians, among them 14,040 children and 9,106 women, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Non-extremist rebel fighters...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State on Wednesday captured Tell al-Nuri village in Hasaka province from a tribal rebel faction allied with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), activists said. The activist Rasid al-Janoubi told Zaman al-Wasl that Isis attacks targeted a...

(Eqtsad)- With the start of the harvest season each year, the regime forces and sectarian militias that aid it purposefully ignite fires whether by plane or by shelling fields from the checkpoints surrounding the cities and towns in Homs’ besieged northern countryside. Eqtsad’s...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The war on al-Fallujah is complicated and holds particular symbolism, on the surface a war of trickery controlled by excuses and an ideological and sectarian war when read between the lines.  It is a righteous war where the nullification of...