A Syrian who was beheaded by a rebel group in Aleppo this week was a 19-year-old pro-regime fighter suffering from a growth defect and not a child, activists have claimed. He was named as Abdullah al-Issa and that his family members said he was a 19-year-old who volunteered to fight with the...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mercenaries belonging to Bashar al-Assad’s sect committed what can be considered a massacre during which tens of members of the Murshidi sect were injured and killed according to witness statements from persons present at the time of the incident....

(Eqtsad)- A Syrian lady lives in a Gulf country talked to Eqtsad about her experience with one of the Forex companies called “Pandaoption”, which started almost a year and a half ago, when she received a phone call from an American phone number, the speaker talked to her in Arabic introducing...

U.S.-backed fighters Thursday gave ISIS 48 hours to leave the battleground Syrian town of Manbij, after U.S.-led airstrikes nearby reportedly killed dozens of civilians. The raids Tuesday by the coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq have provoked an intense backlash and local protests....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people have been killed in missile attack carried out by regime forces on Telmans town in northern Idlib province, medics said Thursday. Doctor Khaled Abu Abdullah said two children were among the victims when regime warplanes struck a gas cylinders store in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels blew up an army building in government-held Aleppo city on Thursday using tunnel bombs tactics that left huge explosion and dozens of army troops killed. Fatah Aleppo rebel group claimed responsibility for the bombing, posting a video of the explosion. The...

 The head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for a suspension of the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State in Syria while reports of dozens of civilian deaths from air strikes around the northern city of Manbij are investigated. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime violent attack recently on Marj town in the eastern suburbs of Damascus forced 4 thousand families to leave the area, local councils reported. 4 thousand families fled towards cities in depth of Eastern Ghouta district. Some were able to rent houses whereas...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels said Wednesday they have killed more than 150  regime troops and Iranian fighters in the ongoing clashes in the northern province of Aleppo as regime keeps the noose tighten on rebel-held areas of the city. Fatah Aleppo Operation Room, key rebel...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists in Hasaka accused the Democratic Union Party (PYD) of facilitating human organ trading after finding a body of a boy who was killed after taking off his organs in an area under the PYD’s control. Activist Ahmed al-Ali reported that the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday a nationwide three-month state of emergency after Friday's failed coup that martyred 246 people and injured over 1,500 others. "The purpose of the state of emergency is to most effectively and swiftly take steps necessary to eliminate...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Secretary General of Syrian National Coalition SNC Abdul Illah Fahid said Assad will not remain in the transitional period “even for one day”.  He did not stop at that, but added that whoever thinks of Assad...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian human rights organizations and prominent figures have appealed to protect civilians in the city of Daraya in Western Ghouta of Damascus, that has been under siege for 4 years after controlling the fields by the Syrian regime, which considered...

 Syrian rebels and a monitoring group said two explosions that struck a Syrian town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday were caused by an Israeli air strike but Lebanon's Hezbollah blamed rocket fire by al Qaeda-linked militants. At least one blast struck near the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people have been killed on Wednesday in regime air strikes on the northern city of Idlib, Local Coordination Committees said. Activists said children and women were among the victims who fled battles of Aleppo. The air strikes hit al-Mashtal Park and...

A Syrian rebel group which has received U.S. military backing said it is investigating the beheading of a young child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man activists identified as a member of the group. Images of a fighter cutting off the small boy's...

Pro-coup soldiers, who attacked a hotel which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family were vacationing in during Friday’s deadly coup, said they were ordered to "capture an important terrorist leader". Speaking on the condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Syrian regime have arrested 300 people from besieged al-Waer in Homs last June. Media activist in the Civil Association Center Abu Faisal said most of the arrested are seniors and children were taken from the front of the regime-controlled bakery in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of casualties among regime forces resulted from battles to regain important sites in Jabal al-Akrad in the countryside of Latakia, when rebels besieged the Shalaf castle and exploded a car bomb among defeated forces in the village of Wadi...

Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities. Around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil...