Kurdish Peshmerga forces Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against ISIS and further tighten their grip on the militants' capital Mosul. Backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish fighters reached Kanhash, the western side of...

Russia and the United States are close to starting joint military action against militants in Syria's Aleppo, Russian news agencies on Monday cited Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying. Fighting for control of Aleppo has intensified in recent weeks and there have been some gains for rebel...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition sources in Syrian National Coalition political body clarified what has been reported about special envoy to Syria Michael Ratney’s request of SNC to cooperate with Kurdish Democratic Union Party PYD. The sources indicated the traditional meeting focused on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- General Haj Ali Zade, head of  Iran's air force made a confidential visit to Damascus last week along with top engineer in Pars Company for aircraft manufacture Mohamed al-Bukhsh in addition to other officials and personalities in Iranian Revolutionary Guards, military...

Syrian rebels killed a senior Hizballah leader on Monday as they led a failed assault on a regime barracks in Aleppo, according to a source in the Army of Conquest military operations room. The source told The New Arab that a Hizballah commander was killed as rebels attempted to take control...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition activists say a push by an alliance of rebel groups to open a new front with regime forces in Aleppo has failed. The activists and the websites reported Monday that the rebels retreated from positions they seized near a cement factory a day earlier on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- New photos of Palmyra Citadel have showed huge destruction in the historic monument, such a crime against humanity carried out by both Syrian regime and the Islamic State. The Syrian regime and its mercenaries used the citadel as a deployment site following outbreak of the...

(Eqtsad)- The two months of relieve people in Yarmouk basin enjoyed, have ended with the start of clashed between Ahrar al-Sham and the Syrian Free Army (FSA) from one side, with Khalid Bin al-Walid brigade from the other side. Villages of Yarmouk basin in the far Western countryside of Daraa...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces on Sunday thwarted regime attack to capture al-Zara town in the southern countryside of Hama province, killing and wounding 25 soldiers, local reporter said. Regime forces backed by heavy aerial bombing launched major attack on al-Zara and...

The PYD, the Syrian affiliate of the terrorist PKK organization, is being accused of attempting to change the demographic structure in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. According to local sources, PYD forces set ablaze civil registry and land registry buildings in Manbij, shortly after...

(Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)-A suspected ISIS suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest on a bus near the Atmeh border crossing into Turkey late on Sunday, killing at least 23 people, including rebel fighters, and injuring 50 others, some critically, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and sources...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz returned home on Sunday after a month-long holiday in Morocco, and ordered a month's extra pay for Saudi military and security personnel actively involved in military operations in Yemen, state news agency SPA said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef had...

Heavy fighting took place in different sectors of the city of Aleppo on Sunday as rebels assaulted two regime strongholds in the city's northwest and south, a monitor of the war said. Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between its government-held west and rebel-held eastern neighborhoods,...

Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- An audio record between a pilot and a control tower revealed that regime’s pilots do not operate any air strike without orders from the control tower that provides them with the exact target to hit. Zaman al-Wasl obtained an audio record for a conversation between...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance announced Sunday a new attack against regime forces and its allied militias based in al-Zahraa artillery barracks near Aleppo city, local sources said. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo said the battle is launched by Faylaq al-Sham al-Jabha al-Shamiye, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Islam Army group said Sunday the second phase of the battle “Zaat al-Rikaa” has been started, targeting Syrian regime locations in the Eastern Qalamoon northeast of  Damascus. The army clarified the suicide bombers infiltrated to Artillery Faculty via...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tension continues between Syrian regime forces and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) resulting from arrests on both sides amid security spread of large armed groups subordinate to PYD in Tal Hamis south of Qamishli, local source said. Activist Malaz al-Yousef confirmed...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions forced Syrian regime forces to change supplies road connecting to Aleppo city after they captured al-Ramouseh highway pushing regime to use Castello soil road to reach Khanaser and al-Safira to connect Aleppo city with Damascus, Latakia and Hama...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A document issued by the Syrian regime called the Syrian fighters heading to Iraq as jihadists confirmed those Syrians were travelling to Iraq to fight with knowledge of the security services which used to observe and follow their movement. The...

Reoprting by Oqab Malek (Zaman al-Wasl)- Jet fighter Albatros L-39 might lead warplanes bombing resisting Syrian cities deployed mainly in Shauyrat, al-Nairb, Aleppo international military airports, source said. The source speaking on condition of anonymity said the decreasing preparedness to...