The Turkey-backed operation to retake Jarabulus in northern Syria form Daesh was the “first step of Syrian peace”, the president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly said Friday. Emin Bozoglan told journalists in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep that Operation Euphrates Shield was a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 24 civilians were killed and more than 30 injured Saturday in a new massacre by Syrian regime air strikes on Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in Aleppo city, local monitor group said. Aleppo Media Center clarified that a helicopter dropped two explosive barrels on a...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) continued to advance against ISIS group on Saturday after seizing five villages in the surroundings of Jarabulus and Cobanbey (al-Raii in Arabic) cities in Syria’s northern Aleppo province. FSA took control of three villages near Jarabulus and another two near...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian baby was born this week in a rare condition known as Mermaid syndrome in al-Zafaraneh village in central Homs province . The doctors at first could not identify the sex of the baby, who passed away 10 hours later, a male, due to tragic fuse of the legs. A medical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Saturday launched several vacuum missiles strikes on civil residence in besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city, local activists reported. The sources said according to preliminary reports, the regime air strikes injured scores and inflicted fear...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many pro-regime people in the coastal region have expressed their anger on social media because Syrian regime began evacuating rebels from Daraya outskirt south of Damascus instead of exterminating them, while other pro-regime expressed great joy over regime victory on...

Syrian rebels and their families began evacuating a long-besieged Damascus suburb Friday as part of an agreement reached with the government following four years of grueling airstrikes and siege that left the suburb in ruins. The surrender of Daraya, which became an early symbol of the nascent...

Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse the border of Daesh (ISIS) and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Friday, after a truck bombing by Kurdish insurgents killed at least 11 police officers. The suicide attack at a police headquarters in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's fierce bombardment on Kabbana village in coastal Latakia province continued on Saturday, marking more than 500 rockets, barrel bombs and mortars since Friday, rebel sources said. The rebel-held village in the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area overlooks on a...

 The last time U.S. Vice President Joe Biden flew to Turkey, in January, he had a stern message for President Tayyip Erdogan: his model of Islamic democracy was setting a bad example by intimidating media and threatening academics. But his tone was markedly different when he arrived in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey is brokering the biggest pensioner swap ever between the Syrian regime and opposition forces that will release more than 5000 detainees, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The exchange will include corpses of Russian pilots who were killed recently by rebels in Idlib...

 A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week. "They did feel compelled ultimately to fire three warning shots and the...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Friday denounced as a "bare-faced lie" suggestions in Western media that Ankara's military operation in Syria was singling out Kurdish people rather than extremists. "They either know nothing about the world, or else their job is to report a bare-faced...

Ambulances and Red Crescent vehicles entered Syria’s besieged town of Daraya as thousands of rebels and civilians prepared to evacuate on Friday ahead of its takeover by government forces. It was unclear exactly when residents and fighters would start leaving the devastated town near the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, will try to hammer out final details of a cooperation agreement on fighting ISIS in Syria during talks in Geneva Friday. The hope is that a deal will lead to a cessation of hostilities across Syria and relaunch...

 Syrian rebels, who this week seized a strategic town from Islamic State, aim to move westward in the next phase of their Turkey-backed operation, an advance that could take weeks or months to complete, a rebel commander said. Colonel Ahmad Osman, head of the Sultan Murad group, also told...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Gathering of thowar Aleppo that includes all activists has directed a message to the World Food Programme (WFP) to express their rejection to choosing the Castello road to deliver the humanitarian aid, which is controlled by the Syrian regime and the Kurdish People’s...

 Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances. Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and...

Hundreds of rebel fighters and thousands of civilians are to evacuate the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya after rebels and the Syrian army agreed to a deal, a rebel leader and a state news agency have said. Thursday's development ended one of the longest standoffs in the Syria's five-year...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fear has been sparked among civilians of the coastal city of Tartus due to widespread of gangs steal vehicles. The criminal police arrested many members of the gangs, but they were released due to orders from prominent figures. The criminal police announced Sunday August 21,...