Syrian rebels aim to reach the ISIS-held town of Dabiq within 48 hours if all goes to plan, one of their commanders said Monday, as a Turkey-backed operation in northern Syria targets an area of great religious significance to the group. Ahmed Osman of the Sultan Murad rebel group also said...

BEIRUT: At least 21 Syrian rebels fighting alongside Turkish troops in northern Syria against ISIS were killed Sunday by landmines laid by the extremist group, activists said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the toll was the highest loss of life for forces involved in the...

(Eqtsad)- General Court of south Damascus issued a decree on Sunday to ban collecting houses’ rent and banning evacuating the forcibly displaced in these houses unless with obvious criteria and a system that is implemented on everyone. In a special statement to Zaman al-Wasl, the secretary of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One civilian has been killed and dozen injured on Monday in regime and Russian air strikes on the Palestinian Khan al-Sheeh camp in the capital's Western Ghouta suburbs, Local Coordination Committees said Monday. Russian warplanes have conducted 8 raids on the camp using...

Clashes in northern Syria have killed 15 Turkey-backed rebels fighting Islamic State in the last 24 hours, according the Turkish military, which launched a cross-border incursion in late August. The latest fighting marks an escalation since Turkish troops crossed the border into Syria on Aug....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl followed tense arguments in pro-regime ranks including accusations of treason and selling points insinuated by photos published by Jund al-Aqsa brigade for one regime location in Hama countryside. The photos show regime forces escape leaving behind them 4...

( The Hill )- Lawmakers are pressing for a U.S. military option to help end the Syrian civil war, a so-called "Plan B," as the Obama administration's last-ditch diplomatic effort with Russia flounders. Frustration on Capitol Hill is mounting after a temporary ceasefire negotiated Sept. 9...

The frail cries of four-month-old Wahida made the rescue worker who carried her out of the rubble in Syria's Idlib break down in sobs. The full story is one of tragedy. "I was in the shop when the airplane began carrying out air strikes," recalls 32-year-old father Yehya Maatouq almost...

At least 52 people were killed and many injured after an annual thanksgiving festival of the Oromo community turned into an anti-government protest Sunday in the south-central Ethiopian town of Bishoftu. According to a statement issued by the regional government, the victims were killed in a...

When Hungarian film-maker Kornel Mundruczo reviewed a screenplay in 2014 about the adventures of a Syrian refugee boy in Budapest, the first page carried the notation "some time in the future". Less than a year later, refugees flooding into Hungary prompted right-wing Prime Minister Viktor...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended on Sunday his tax practices after a report suggested he may have avoided paying income taxes for the past two decades. The New York Times reported that Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, which could have...

The European Union proposed a new humanitarian plan in coordination with the United Nations for the besieged half of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, but said it required cooperation from all parties to the conflict. The plan aims to deliver medical, water and food aid from EU stocks in...

The Arab League has called on the international community to intervene to stop bloodshed in northern Syria’s Aleppo city. In a Saturday statement, spokesman Mahmoud Afifi denounced the ongoing aerial bombardment of hospitals and civilians in Aleppo. “The random airstrikes and barrel bomb...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Liberated Police Forces in Aleppo have been formed since 2012, that worked on keeping security and safty in liberated areas. In this occasion, the media centre of Liberated police forces of Aleppo has published a filmed report presenting the main steps of the first...

Three rockets fired from Daesh-controlled territory in Syria hit Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis Saturday, the local governor said.  According to a written statement from the governor's office, two of the rockets hit a hilly area close to the border while the third one...

Air strikes against hospitals in Syria are war crimes that make the resumption of peace talks in the country's civil war impossible, Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday, criticizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia. "It is the continuing savagery of the Assad...

 Syrian regime and allied forces, including Kurdish YPG militia, have advanced toward Aleppo, pursuing their week-old offensive to take the rebel-held part of the city after dozens of overnight air strikes. The regime army told rebels to leave their positions, offering safe passage and...

Four months after he took over a coalition government stunned by the far-right Freedom Party's electoral success, Austria's new chancellor has taken a populist turn, adopting positions remarkably close to those of his anti-immigration rivals. But Christian Kern's new tactics, on Turkey...

A total of 1,003 people were killed in violence across Iraq last month, according to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). In a report released Sunday, UNAMI said the fatalities included 609 civilians while 1,159 people were injured in September. Baghdad was the worst affected...

Syrian government and allied forces advanced north of Aleppo, pressing their week-long offensive to take the insurgent-held part of the city after dozens of overnight air strikes hit the besieged eastern sector, state media and a monitor said on Sunday. The Syrian military, supported by...