(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people including children have been killed in barrel bombs attack on al-Nairab neighborhood in northern Aleppo province, local reporter said.  6 children and 3 women were among the casualties, medics said. Civil defense rescuing group said the death...

A  UN investigation has established that President Bashar al-Assad's forces carried out at least two chemical attacks in Syria and that Islamic State [IS] militants used mustard gas as a weapon. The panel was able to identify the perpetrators of three chemical...

Turkish stocks opened higher on Thursday as global markets wait for clues from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting on Friday as to the outlook for international monetary policy. Borsa Istanbul’s BIST-100 share index rose 348.04 points (0.46 percent) to 76,464.35 at the...

The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have withdrawn across the Euphrates river to prepare for "the eventual liberation" of Raqqa, a city held by ISIS, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against the militant group said on Thursday. SDF officials could not immediately be reached for...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters were retreating to the east of the Euphrates river, Turkish Foreign Ministry sources said. In an early morning call, the two emphasised that the fight against ISIS in...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, into the early hours of Thursday morning on ways to end Yemen's conflict and resume peace talks between the warring sides. Kerry arrived in Jeddah from Nigeria for...

The German military is preparing for a possible withdrawal of six Tornado reconnaissance jets from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base given Ankara's continued refusal to allow German lawmakers to visit the facility, Der Spiegel magazine reported Thursday. The magazine said the German Bundeswehr was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out 17 air strikes on Jabal al-Akrad hilltops in Latakia province, seeking to get back bodies of slain soldiers and senior Russian officer. On Monday, the Syrian resistance forces captured Kannaba tow, from the regime army. Such a strategic gain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army have seized control of the ISIS-held town of Jarabulus on the Turkish border, following major attack backed by Turkish elite forces and the U.S.-led coalition air strikes, opposition media outlets and activists said. The moderate FSA forces have captured...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After more than a week of clashes between YPG, the armed wing of Kurdish Democratic union Party (PYD) and Syrian regime, the Kurdish forces almost completely controlled Hasaka city on Tuesday after the ceasefire truce that strengthened the Kurds' grip on the city. The battle...

Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces on Wednesday captured the ISIS-held village of Kaklijah, some 3 kilometers (2 miles) south of the Turkish-Syrian border, a Turkish military source said. FSA forces are expected to advance towards Jarabulus, around 6 km (4 miles) from the border city, the source...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched major attack on Free Syrian Army units based in the Syrian desert east of Damascus, using car bomb and heavy shelling, local monitor group said. Ahmed al-Abdo Forces, key unit in the Southern Front alliance, said it had thwarted the attack,...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- On the day the regime airplanes bombed three locations for the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) in al-Hasakah on Thursday of last week, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was promising the supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) with...

A Syrian activist group monitoring the civil war says Syrian rebels who were amassed at the Turkish border have crossed into Syria as part of a Turkey-backed operation to liberate an Islamic State-controlled border town. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the fighters were preceded...

Turkish special forces units and jets supported by warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition launched an operation in northern Syria on Wednesday to wipe out Islamic State militants along the border with Turkey, Turkish officials said. The Turkish army began firing artillery rounds into the Syrian...

The Russian military said on Monday its aircraft operating from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes in Syria had completed their tasks, but left open the possibility of using the Hamadan base again if circumstances warranted. Iran's Foreign Ministry said Russia had stopped using the base...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance have killed more than 300 regime troops this week as Bashar al-Assad's forces press to recapture a military complex they lost two week ago in the battleground city of Aleppo, rebel commander said on Tuesday. Captain Naji al-Mustafa, senior commander in Suqour...

 Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the government, consolidating the Kurds' grip on Syria's northeast as Turkey increased its efforts to check their influence. The Kurdish YPG militia, a critical part of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State has Tuesday early morning attacked site of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) southern of the town of Shadadi in the countryside of Hasaka, while a ceasefire truce was reached to in Hasaka between the Syrian regime and...

(Zaman Al Wasl) The Ministry of Education issued on Sunday 21 August the results of the second round of re-take exams for the general high school certificate for the scholastic year 2015-2016. The results of the first round of exams were issued around one month ago, and the results were...