Syrian regime troops and allied militias have captured a number of villages and towns in a rebel-held region near the capital, in the largest advance since a wide-scale offensive began last month, state media and activists reported Sunday. Syria's Central Military Media said regime...

Advances by Syrian regime forces into rebel-held eastern Ghouta are causing many people to flee, a pro-Syrian opposition television station and a witness in the enclave said Sunday. Orient TV said advances by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad had triggered wide scale displacement....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has mourned the first female soldier killed in the besieged Eastern Ghouta as the Russia-backed forces wage one of the deadliest offensives in the war. Rana Hashem was born in Salamiyah town in north western Hama province. More than 119,000...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Badia Cement factory at the eastern edge of embattled Ghouta suburbs has turned into a regime’s major arsenal, local activists and rebels said. The civil utility in the industrial zone of al-Dumayr town 60 km (40 miles east of Damascus) has become a base for...