U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Wednesday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is a "big hindrance in trying to move forward" to find an end to the country's six-year conflict. "I'm not going to go back into should Assad be in or out, been there, done that,...

The Syrian regime army captured the small town of Deir Hafer east of Aleppo from ISIS on Wednesday, a Syrian military source said, part of its operations to drive back the exremist group and consolidate its control in that area. It was the site of an important ISIS headquarters and contained...

The Syrian opposition and a senior Russian diplomat agreed on Wednesday that Syria's fragile ceasefire needed to be shored up amid growing violations in the multi-sided civil war. Preserving the cessation of hostilities in place between the Russian-backed Syrian government and rebels...

Turkey’s operation in northern Syria has been successfully concluded, a statement from National Security Council read on Wednesday. Operation Euphrates Shield, which was launched last August “has been concluded successfully”, according to the statement after a four-hour meeting chaired by...

(Wall Street Journal)- Hundreds of Islamic State loyalists in recent days have fled the group’s de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, where emptying streets and a lack of water and electricity point to the extremists’ crumbling control. Raqqa residents said Islamic State’s feared religious...

Turkish authorities arrested a Syrian man who allegedly recruited militants from European countries to fight for ISIS, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday. Anadolu Agency said the man, identified as Safwan Qahwati, was arrested Wednesday after a court order earlier, days after he...

About 146 migrants are feared missing after their boat capsized after leaving Libya, according to a Gambian man who was rescued following the disaster, the United Nations' refugee agency said Wednesday. The man was rescued by a Spanish military ship participating in the EU's "Operation...

Spillways at the Tabqa Euphrates dam are functioning normally after engineers carried out repairs, a media official with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia, which is trying to capture the dam from ISIS, said on Wednesday. ISIS warned on Sunday that the dam was at risk of...

(Al-Monitor)- As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was declaring in February that after taking over al-Bab, Turkey would proceed to Manbij and then to Raqqa, Al-Monitor was meeting in Manbij with Adnan Abu Amjad, general commander of the Manbij Military Council. The day of the meeting,...

Britain remains a key ally for the European Union and NATO, a spokeswoman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, as London formally launched the process to quit the bloc. "We must not forget that the U.K. is still a partner, in NATO and in Europe," Ulrike Demmer told...

ISIS shelled positions held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River Wednesday, forcing engineers to temporarily halt efforts to stop a potential collapse, a Reuters witness said. ISIS fired from the southern end of the dam, which it controls,...

By Ismail Ayoub (Zaman Al Wasl)- American Special Forces executed a tactical airdrop in Tabaqa airbase using Osprey v22 helicopters, the most sophisticated in the world. As a result of the attack, American and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the airport from Islamic State...

A bomb attack on a bus in Syria's third city Homs killed five people and wounded at least seven Wednesday, state media reported. The blast hit a small bus carrying passengers in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood, which has repeatedly been targeted in bombings. Most of the neighborhood's...

Jordan's King Abdullah said peace would not be attained in the Middle East without the creation of a Palestinian state under a two-state solution that would be the basis of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace deal. In a speech at the start of an Arab summit held beside the Dead Sea, King...

Ten people were arrested in a second night of protests in Paris over the killing by police of a Chinese father of five, an incident that has caused tensions with Beijing. Around 400 members of the Asian community and supporters of anti-racism groups gathered outside a police station in the...

(News Week)- In a recent interview with Al-Mayadeen television, Hezbollah’s number two, Sheikh Naim Qassem, insisted that “Hezbollah would be the one deciding when to leave Syria, “which will take place when the party is guaranteed that ‘Syria as a resistance’ will remain.” Qassem...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people killed Wednesday in Russian airstrikes on Idlib province to increase the death toll to 50 in five days of airstrikes, volunteer rescuing group said. The Civil Defense group said the cluster bombs' victims were displaced people sheltering in  Deir Sharqi...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group launched a surprise attack overnight on Hezbollah bastions at Lebanese border, killing and wounding dozen, local reporter said Wednesday. The attack took place in the mountainous Flita area in the western Qalamoun region.  ...

Syrian engineers were expected to carry out urgent maintenance Wednesday on the country's largest dam, where U.S.-backed fighters have been battling ISIS who still control most of it. The maintenance work, which entails opening a spillway to relieve the pressure of water on the dam, will...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has met one of U.S. President Donald Trump's top envoys on the sidelines of an Arab summit as the White House seeks ways to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks. The meeting Tuesday night comes ahead of Abbas's expected visit to the White House in April and...