Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Amid the fast track military development at the Northern border of Syria, talks about the Safe Zone has come to surface again, the option that the opposition need to be ready for. In order to have an idea about the matter, Eqtsad talked to Mohammed yasin...

(The Daily Mail)- Iran is shoring up the Syrian regime from a secret HQ in Damascus nicknamed ‘the Glasshouse’ - and commanding a huge covert army in support of Assad, according to leaked intelligence passed by activists to MailOnline. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claims...

By Burhanettin Duran (The Daily Sabah)- Having launched operation Euphrates Shield on Aug. 24, Turkey not only helped the Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberate Jarablus but also became directly involved in the Syrian civil war. After years of futile negotiations with Turkey's allies over a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 220 rebel fighters to leave  besieged town of Moadamiya near Damascus to northern Idlib province according to deal reached with the Syrian regime last week which seen as a major defeat for the opposition , sources said. The rebels who originally from Daraya...

 Syrian rebels have captured a strategic town in northern Hama province in a major offensive that threatens government loyalist towns populated by minority Christians and Alawites north of the provincial capital, rebels and a monitor said on Tuesday. The town of Halfaya was stormed on...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State's spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, has been killed in Aleppo in Syria during a supervising task, according to Amaq News Agency, the official news agency of the Islamic State, reported on Tuesday. Amaq reported that al-Adnani was killed while checking up the...

Reporting by Mohamed Hussein (Zaman Al Wasl)- News about troubles in putting in effect the truce between the Syrian regime and the military arm of the Democratic Union Party which reached to in the Hemaymim Russian military base in the coast. Activist Mahmood al-Ahmed reported that the...

The Turkish military has not agreed any ceasefire with Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria, Turkish military sources said on Tuesday, after a Kurdish official said a truce was holding. Separately, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement that Turkey's military operation in Syria...

 Turkey's army chief signaled no let up in a Syria offensive Washington has criticized for targeting U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters as well as jihadists, and said its successes showed last month's failed coup had not dented the military's power. Turkish-backed forces began the offensive...

Turkey's military push against Kurds in northern Syria risks escalating the conflict, French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, calling on all parties to stop fighting and return to peace talks. Hollande told an annual gathering of French ambassadors that almost a year after Russia...

U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan have killed four commanders of the Haqqani network, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban, as government forces try to retake a district captured by insurgents last week, Afghan officials said on Tuesday. Naqeeb Ahmad Atal, a spokesman for the governor of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 civilians have been killed Tuesday in Russian missile attack hit a local market in the town of Maaret Misreen in Idlib province, local sources reported. Medical sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that 7 civilians have been killed and more than 34 have been injured...

By Ethar Abulhaq (Zaman al-Wasl)- An Israeli journalist and researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov said, “it is very frustrating that some attacked the former spokesman of Jaish al-Islam based on mistranslation of the interview I conducted with him.” She indicated to Zaman al-Wasl that, “It is...

 Russia's politically-sensitive and ultimately fruitless decision to launch bombing missions on Syria from Iranian soil has exposed the limits to its air power, leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy to advance its aims. People familiar with Russia's military said Moscow opted...

The Obama administration will meet its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2018, the White House said on Monday. The 10,000th Syrian refugee was scheduled to arrive in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Resistance on Monday seized key town in the central Hama province after major attack on an array of regime-held towns, local activists said. Helfaya town, 17 km (11miles) north of Hama, and three more villages and ten checkpoints fell to rebels control in the northern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters backed by Turkish air strikes and artillery continued Monday advancing in the eastern countryside of Aleppo in the battle against the Islamic State based mainly in al-Bab town, and Kurdish militias. Zaman Al Wasl correspondent in Aleppo...

The United States on Monday criticised clashes between Turkish forces and some opposition groups in northern Syria as "unacceptable" and called on all armed actors in the fighting to stand down and focus on the fight against Islamic State. "We want to make clear that we find these clashes - in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 48-hour truce entered into effect in the besieged Al-Waer neighborhood in the city of Homs on Monday, a day after fierce aerial bombing killed 7 civilians and wounded dozens, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The truce followed two days of air raids, the first such strikes since...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions on Monday have taken ground from regime army and its sectarian militias in Hama province, killing scores of troops and destroying heavy weapons, local sources reported. Local sources told Zaman al-Wasl the resistance factions liberated until this...