United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday he hopes peace talks to end more than five years of brutal conflict in the country can resume late next month. "Our aim is to proceed with a third round of intra-Syrian talks towards the end of August," de Mistura told reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists accused Nusra Front of freeing 14 regime army troops in southern Daraa province early Tuesday as state media said they were released in surprise attack on Saida town in the eastern countryside.  Activists said the captive soldiers were in detention for...

Syrian regime forces on Tuesday seized a rebel-held neighbourhood on the northwest outskirts of Aleppo, tightening their siege of the opposition-held parts of the city, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said loyalist troops had full control of the Leramun...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed Tuesday at least 20 regime forces in the southern countryside of central Hama province, local reporter said. Rebels have thwarted regime's new attack on Harbanafseh, a Turkman-dominated town that has been under constant attacks since early this year....

French police "neutralized" two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France Tuesday, the police said. A police source said that one of the hostages had been killed with a blade in the attack which took place in the Normandy town of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Bodies responsible in Liberated Daraa council of the Interim government, carry on process of selling wheat harvest within a annual plan for this year. Head of the agricultural office of Liberated Daraa council, Engineer Nazih Kadah reported that amount of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two displaced Syrian have been killed in Russian air strikes on a makeshift camp near the Turkish border in the coastal Latakia province, local new site said on Tuesday. Latakia Media Network said the Russian air strikes were not the first this year. Camps of al-Ymadhiya,...

Supporters of Bernie Sanders disrupted the first day of the Democratic convention on Monday, repeatedly chanting and booing mentions of Hillary Clinton's name as the party's hopes for a show of unity dissolved into frequent chaos. Speakers in the convention's first hours struggled to carry...

Any military or intelligence cooperation between the United States and Russia to strike targets in Syria would include measures to ensure U.S. operational security and would not be based on trust, a top U.S. military official said on Monday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A member of pro-Syrian regime Baath Battalions militia was killed by Asayish, the Kurdish security forces, in the northeastern city of Hasaka on Monday, such an act that has sparked tensions between the two factions, activists said. Activist...

A car bomb blast on Monday hit an upmarket area of Damascus housing several government buildings, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, saying there were "several wounded". The explosion took place in front of a 10-storey building in the Kafar Sousse district in the southwest of the war-torn...

A failed Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up outside a German music festival had made a video pledging allegiance to ISIS, in the second attack claimed by the extremists in Germany in a week. The 27-year-old assailant wounded 15 people, four of them seriously, near a cafe in the southern...

Syria's regime intensified air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo province Monday as a UN envoy prepared to meet US and Russian officials to try to revive peace talks. France called for an immediate humanitarian truce in Aleppo city after civilian deaths in the provincial capital and after...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Huge number of militias most of them Afghan have arrived Palmyra with help of Iran in order to fight with Assad's regime according to sources. Well informed sources reported that regime has brought foreign militias mainly Afghan, number estimated...

(Eqtsad)- The new Governor of the Syrian Central Bank is trying hard to return the bank to its right path after the effort of his predecessor Adib Mayala during the past few lean years in the life of the Syrian economy to turn the central bank into one of the biggest Syrian exchange offices to...

A siege imposed by the Syrian regime on the northern city of Aleppo coupled with an uptick in airstrikes and closure of hospitals are leaving the city at the risk of a humanitarian catastrophe. In February, the Syrian regime cut the supply route between Aleppo’s northern countryside and...

Turkey’s military is in urgent need of overhaul following the July 15 coup attempt, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said late Sunday. In an interview with finance news network Bloomberg, he said the government was investigating intelligence failures that did not give earlier warning of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Group of dissident Syrian officers, currently living in the officer camp in Turkey, have recently established the Free Officers Gathering, sources said. Sources said the number of members is in the hundreds after a large number of dissident officers and officers inside Syria...

(Eqtsad)- A Turkish factory in the border city of Gaziantep dismissed 40 Syrian workers without giving any reasons, activists said, hinting that the factory owner belongs to the parallel entity and one of the supporters of the coup. One of the workers, who spoke to Zaman al-Wasl on condition...

(Zaman Al Wasl) -Zaman al-Wasl learned from one of the regime officers in Kuweires airport that the Russian military presence in the airport is increasing. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, revealed that the last few days witnessed the arrival of extra...