Thousands of displaced residents streamed back into the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Saturday after U.S.-backed fighters ousted the last Islamic State militants from their former stronghold, residents and U.S. allies said. The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Friday...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Eye witnesses in Moria camp in Greek Lesbos island reported to Eqtsad that relief workers had distributed forms in Arabic in regard to adopting Christianity twice last month, targeting refugees in general and Syrian refugees in particular. Yusuf Falaha, a...

The head of Kurdish National Council in Syria, Ibrahim Biro, was abducted Saturday by PYD forces in the northeastern province of al-Hasakah, according to an official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDP-S). "Ibrahim Biro and a KDP-S member, Suleyman Oso, were abducted by PYD forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes backed by Russia's jets killed at least 29 people in northern Idlib province in deadly air strikes hit the city and its countryside, activists said. The strikes hit the industrial district and the municipal stadium in Idlib city, leaving 15 people dead....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 civilians have been killed on Saturday in regime aerial bombing on the western countryside of Aleppo city, local activists said as regime forces press to recapture ground lost to the Syrian resistance last week. 5 people were killed in Shamico town and 6 more...

Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- 3 civilians have been killed and scores injured mostly women and children in the fierce and most violent Syrian regime offensive on several towns in besieged northern Homs countryside on Saturday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said regime and Russian warplanes launched...

Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A wave of anger have spread among regime loyalists in the countryside of Latakia and Tartus when representative of the Syrian regime gave families of soldiers killed in the Syria conflict the national flag as a compensation for the life of their beloved sons. At...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite the passing of almost one month on coup, the Turkish media is increasing its reports and investigations about the failed coup, its repercussions, connections, the role of the prominent persons accused in being involved in it, especially the high...

ISIS has freed hundreds of civilians used by the extremists as human shields while retreating in northern Syrian, US-backed forces and a monitor said Saturday. A source from the Syrian Democratic Forces, which pushed ISIS from the city of Manbij this week with the aid of US-led air strikes,...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- The first court session for three Syrian young men accused of terrorism after arresting them in their illegal attempt to enter Turkey via Bulgaria February 10, 2016. The case stayed in court, till it reach to media after announcing that Bulgarian authority...

At least 16 people have died amid a cholera outbreak in parts of the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), local authorities and international humanitarian groups said Friday. The United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said in a statement that the Central...

Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein (Eqtsad)- Prices of food has risen in the town of Markada in the southern countryside of Hasaka, the last stronghold of the Islamic State, due to the rise in the exchange rate of the US dollar from SYP 515 to SYP 525, added to fear among people of lack of food...

Rebel gains which have broken a Syrian government siege in the city of Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand should a new round of peace talks go ahead, an opposition negotiator told Reuters. Previous rounds collapsed earlier this year when the opposition objected to the forces of...

 U.S.-backed forces have seized full control of the northern Syrian city of Manbij near the Turkish border after the last remaining Islamic State fighters, who had been using civilians as human shields, left, a spokesman for the group said Friday. Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) were now...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- At least 20 civilians, mostly children, have been killed in regime air strikes on Aleppo city as the bombings put Children hospital in Kafar Hamra out of service, local sources said Friday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo warplanes launched several air strikes on western and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between Syrian resistance factions and Syrian regime forces erupted Thursday in Daraya, south of Damascus as regime warplanes raided the city with explosive barrels and surface-to-surface missiles, local sources reported. Daraya Local Council said the city was...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Field sources in the village of Madaya al-Riwaya confirmed the United Nations are setting as a condition the evacuation of the villages of Kefrya and al-Foaa (Idlib countryside) for it to evacuate a child in need of an urgent operation after she was shot by a Hezbollah sniper....

Writing by Faris al-Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nidal Nour-Eddin Mahmood, a young man in his twenties from Bosra al-Harir spoke about his 4-year-hard experience in Syrian intelligence prisons, that started in 2012, ended up in 2016 when the Islamic State attacked the brutal prison on Palmyra....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Khaled Harah, prominent civil defense worker, lost his life on Thursday in regime air strikes on al-Ramouseh district in Aleppo city, the rescuing group said in statement. Harah was in a rescuing mission with tens of his colleagues as regime warplanes extended its aerial...

Libyan forces engaged in renewed clashes with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday, a day after capturing a convention complex that had been a symbol of the militant group's authority in the city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government seized the Ouagadougou convention...