(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria Democratic Forces backed by the U.S. air strikes have pressed more advances against the Islamic State in the northern town of Manbij, taking control of  two neighborhoods, Kurdish media outlets reported on Monday. The battles will be over in few days, SDF commander...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It appears that neither side is able to hold onto Kensabba and secure their control over it, as the Syrian resistance has withdrawn from it on Sunday under continuous artillery, missile, and air shelling for three days. The Syrian resistance also withdrew from the village of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee girl is missing after she left her work in one of the workshops in Istanbul in the afternoon on Saturday, activists said. The girl’s mother posted the news on social media on her Facebook page Gula Efrine, that her daughter went out during her break at the...

Syrian regime forces redeployed Sunday to try to avoid being surrounded in neighborhoods they control in Aleppo, as a rebel alliance said it was launching a battle to recapture the whole city after breaking a three-week government siege. The Army of Conquest said it would "double the number of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The opposition’s advance in Aleppo and managing to break the siege imposed on the Eastern part of the city and controlling al-Ramouseh high way have soared prices in regime-controlled neighbourhoods beside disappearing of fuel, added to looting furniture of civilians’ houses...

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Apart from the battles in Aleppo, people in the city especially in the eastern side suffer of extremely difficult humanitarian situation due the 4-week blockade, added to disconnection in electricity as the main electricity generators have stopped...

An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The hospital, in the town of Meles, is about 15 km from Idlib city in rebel-held Idlib province. Syrian government and allied Russian military...

Iran has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist detained in 2010 when he returned home from the United States, after a court convicted him of spying for Washington, a spokesman for the judiciary said on Sunday. "Through his connection with the United States, (Shahram) Amiri gave vital...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people, mostly family members, were killed in the battleground city of Aleppo as regime warplanes wage fierce aerial campaign on opposition-held Aleppo after they broke the siege, local reporter said Sunday. Most eastern neighborhood of Aleppo came under intense...

(Zaman al-Wasl) A dissident Colonel presented details about the faculty of artillery following the Syrian resistance’s announcement a few hours ago of its liberation. The colonel described it as one of the oldest military institutions in Syria and its most fortified. The Colonel Bashar Saad...

Syrian insurgents who broke the siege of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Saturday in a significant territorial gain came under intense air attack from pro-government forces on Sunday trying to repel the advance which also cut government-held Aleppo's main supply route. Rebels have taken most of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Field sources reported ISIS forces launched an attack Sunday on Tanaf border crossing where the New Syrian Army is located and violent clashes occurred between the two sides. The sources stated that the Islamic State started a broad attack at dawn with the aim of taking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian resistance announced its complete control over the Technical Air Force Collage, the last regime stronghold in the military college conglomeration in Ramouseh. The announcement comes hours after the Syrian resistance official announced it managed to end the siege of...

At least 11 Iraqis were killed, including six army troops, in a suicide bombing south of Mosul on Sunday, according to a local Iraqi official. Saleh al-Jabouri told Anadolu Agency that several Daesh militant wearing explosive belts had attacked Ajhala village, 60km south of Mosul. “While some...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- heavy clashed took place between the Islamic State and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last two days Southern of Shadadi in Southern countryside of Hasaka, while Asayish, the Kurdish forces had enhanced their security procedures after the explosion...

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has strongly refuted recent media reports and accusations that his country was involved in or had any advance knowledge of the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey, while also elaborating on how he personally and his staff in Ankara experienced the night of...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai (Eqtsad)- In the balcony of his simple countryside home in Amasya north of Turkey, Syrian refugee Mohamed Hadid Shufan sits contemplating his plantings which he spent months nurturing in creative ways that it may make him forget the bitter months of siege where he...

 Reporting by Abdul Hafiz al-Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rahaf Ahmad Bakar is not the only for her mother anymore, she got married with the man of her dreams Samer 3 months ago. Rahaf (22) took refuge in Tripoli in Lebanon from Homs western countryside. When she is supposed to receive...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is still pursuing an agreement with Russia on military cooperation in the fight against Islamic State in Syria despite major setbacks and skepticism from other administration officials and U.S. allies, U.S. officials with knowledge of the talks said on Friday....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo Operation Room, the task command of Syria's resistance, assured to the residents of Aleppo city their keen to make them safe and who will surrender from the pro-regime forces is also safe. The statement said "whoever enters his home is safe, whoever enters a church is...