At least 10 civilians were killed when warplanes hit a hospital amid a bombardment of airstrikes on Saturday. Three children and two woman are among the dead after the suspected Russian or government air raids in the Syria's Milis town in Idlib, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, confirmed....

Yusra Mardini, the teenager who braved a Mediterranean crossing in a leaky dinghy fleeing war-torn Syria, won her 100m butterfly heat in Rio Saturday to launch an "amazing" Olympic experience. "Everything was amazing. It was the only thing I ever wanted was to compete in the Olympics," said...

A Syrian refugee was crowned "wine queen" in Germany, snatching the traditional annual honour title from local young women of wine-growing families. Twenty-six-year-old Ninorta Bahno was chosen by locals in the Mosel region to counter growing resentment against refugees in the country, which...

Syrian resistance forces broke through to besieged opposition-held areas in eastern Aleppo on Saturday in an assault on a major government military complex meant to end a month-long siege, insurgents and a monitoring group said. Pro-regime media outlets denied the siege had been broken. The...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian resistance has officially announced capture of artillery school and arming faculty and deployment brigade and storming of the air force technical faculty, the last military locations in the faculty complex in Ramouseh area south of Aleppo....

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai (Zaman al-Wasl)- Their young age did not stop them from joining the revolution and fate decreed the twins Yousef and Abdul Minaem Hilal were killed in one hour; one on the front of Bani Zaid in Aleppo and the other on his way to break the siege on the city with his...

 They could see the fireworks but they have felt no impact from the Olympic Games. Residents of the Mangueira favela or slum, which overlooks the Maracana Stadium where the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony was held, expressed a mix of pride and disappointment as the Games opened in Rio de...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces in one week have destroyed 22 regime armored vehicles, 10 tanks, helicopter, 2 drones and 3 canons, local monitor said Friday. The Syria Press Center said 24 vehicles and military equipment were hit in Aleppo, 7 in Hama, 4 in Latakia, 2 in Damascus...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of southern Daraa province went to streets on Friday protesting corrupt brigades commanders who run their own interest making the Southern Front most clam ever, activists said. Daraa was the cradle of the Syrian revolution that erupted in March 2011  which has...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- Hatay Province south of Turkey announced last Tuesday opening the center of Turkish teacher residence in Jumhuriyat street in Hatay for university degree-holding Syrians and resident in Hatay province. Taher Riju, manager of Syrian Association for Refugee...

 The U.S. military killed three al Qaeda operatives in a strike on Thursday in Yemen, U.S. Central Command said on Friday. The Central Command statement did not specify how the strike was carried out or the identities of those killed.

Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempted to disrupt a Palestinian solidarity conference in Tunisia on Thursday, the event's organisers have said. Assad activists stormed the room raising Syrian and Palestinian flags as they chanted "resistance, resistance, no to normalisation"....

 The United States has resettled 8,000 Syrian refugees inside U.S. borders since October, Anne Richard, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, told reporters on Friday. The United States is on track to meet President Barack Obama's goal to...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu Agency)- Syrian resistance forces are very close to lifting the siege imposed on them by Bashar al-Assad’s forces in parts of southwestern Aleppo city, according to official social media accounts of an opposition group. According to social media accounts of Jaish...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fire broke out on Thursday in the seaport of Latakia city revealed that Syrian regime kept importing huge amount of chlorine acid , the main component of the toxic chloride used by the regime’s shelling against civilians. Information revealed by...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four inmates have been killed in southern Sweida city when Syrian regime forces stormed the central prison after two days revolt, sources said. The dead toll is likely to rise as regime security opened heavy fire on the prisoners who...

A mutilated and headless body found in central Istanbul was identified as a gay Syrian refugee, a local rights group confirmed. Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the conservative Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday that the fight against extremist groups in Syria must be stepped up because they are using poison gas on civilians. Lavrov and Kerry discussed the Syria conflict in a phone call, the Russian foreign...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions on Friday took control of the Artillery School in the battleground province of Aleppo after fierce fighting with regime forces and allied militias, rebel group and activists said. Fatah Army, or the Conquest Army, said the attack begun with...

(The Independent)- Almost every athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games will have an interesting backstory, but Yusra Mardini's is more extraordinary than most.  Mardini is in Rio to represent a team of 10 refugee Olympic athletes. While any other 18-year-old’s biggest achievements may be...