Turkey is building a "strong mechanism" with Russia to try to find a solution in Syria and a delegation including foreign ministry, military and intelligence officials will go to Russia Wednesday for talks, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. In an interview with the state-run Anadolu...

(Hurriyet Daily News)- Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan departs for Russia on Aug. 9 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg in his first trip abroad since the failed coup attempt of July 15. It will also be Erdoğan’s first visit to Russia after the crisis that began...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps moved their wounded fighters from Aleppo University Hospital to unknown place in the divided city of Aleppo, well-informed sources said Wednesday. Hezbollah wounded were among the transferees , the source revealed. Iran has...

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of more than 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored recovery vehicles and other equipment, worth about $1.15 billion, to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The approval for land force equipment coincides with Saudi Arabia leading...

The United Nations called on Tuesday for an urgent ceasefire in the divided Syrian city of Aleppo, where it said two million people lacked access to clean running water, with children most at risk of disease. Access is needed to deliver food and medical supplies and for...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Tuesday killed at least 20 civilians in Mahmida town in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activists said. Regime strikes have also hit Hwaijat al-Saker town and the neighborhoods of al-Sianaa, Sheikh Yasin al-Hwaiqa in the ISIS-held...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 42  regime army troops were killed by the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Homs during the past three days, local reporter said on Tuesday. Te radical groups launched counter attacks on regime forces in Job al-Jarrah region, started by suicide attack...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has started re-deploying its forces from Daraa and Palmyra to Aleppo to participate in the battle against the Syrian opposition in regaining control on the strategic sites in the city. Sources loyalist to regime reported to Zaman...

German police arrested a 24-year-old Syrian refugee last Friday after receiving a tip that the man was planning a possible Islamic-motivated attack, state officials in North-Rhine Westphalia said on Tuesday. "Investigations conducted thus far have found no evidence of a concrete threat," the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese minister of labor blamed Syrian refugees in Sweden for Stockholm rejection of asylum applications of tens of Lebanese families who have been residing in Sweden for 10 years. In an interview with a TV station, Sajaan Qazi the Lebanese Minister of Labor said that Sweden...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Islam Army group killed at least 28 regime troops in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Tuesday, the group's social media pages said on Tuesday, posting photos for the deaths. Jaish al-Islam has launched two attacks on regime strongholds in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Russian intelligence has been notably present in Qamishli north of Syria, local sources reported. The sources revealed the number is estimated to be 100 between officers and individuals confirming the Russian intelligence coming was in conjunction with Russians installation of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two leaked records by Hezbollah militant on the battlefields of Aleppo city claimed that the Lebanese militia fighters were the only ones who kept fighting the Syrian resistance forces in the siege-break battles. Syrian regime forces have low morale and most of them fled their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Syrian refugees in al-Manya camp in northern Lebanese city of Tripoli said army personnel warned managers of 17 camps to evacuate during 48 hours starting Monday. Refugee Abu Hasan al-Idlibi told Zaman al-Wasl the Lebanese army will bulldoze each camp which does not evacuate....

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday that 13 people including children had died in the bombing of a hospital in northwestern Syria, describing the weekend attack as an "outrage" which violated international law. MSF said the air strikes had destroyed most of the...

The United Nations Security Council must not allow civilians on both sides of the Syrian city of Aleppo to be cut off from humanitarian aid, the United States said on Monday as Russia accused Washington of politicizing a humanitarian issue. Insurgents effectively broke a month-long government...

Syrian government forces delivered food and fuel to neighborhoods they control in the divided city of Aleppo on Monday, using an alternative road after rebels cut off the main supply route into those areas, a monitoring group said. Insurgents effectively broke a month-long government siege of...

Writing by Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman al-Wasl)- Last Friday, the Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Sergey Lavrov discussed possibility of implementing Security Council resolution 2254 in relation to Syria and putting a plan to counter “extremist” groups. Russian American committees...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman al-Wasl) Syrians’ refusal of the tyranny of the al-Assad family was not going to break or stop, but it gained momentum after the kidnapping of the boys who wrote the phrases against Bashar al-Assad on the walls of one of the schools in Daraa (40th School),...

A coalition airstrike destroyed 83 oil tankers used by ISIS over the weekend in eastern Syria, the U.S. military announced Monday. Pentagon spokesman Matthew Allen said the strike was conducted by "multiple coalition aircraft" Sunday evening near Albukamal, in Deir al-Zor province along...