Reporting by Amar Bakour; Translation b Rana  Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- In the past two months, rebels foiled repeated attempts by the regime forces and its supporting militias to reach the strategic Castello road north of Aleppo city. In the night of Wednesday 29 June 2016, during a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 113 Syrians troops have been killed and 300 more have been wounded in the ongoing battles in Latakia province as rebels launch major offensive in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman areas, medical source told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels, who launched 'al-Yarmouk Battle'...

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded one person at a Jewish settlement on the outskirts of the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron Thursday and was shot dead, the Israeli army said. Israeli medics said a 15-year-old was critically wounded and a 30-year-old was severely hurt at the Kiryat Arba...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A secret document issued by the military intelligence branch reveal that the regime has persevered in observing and gathering information about every successful male student who passes the general high school exams in all...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 Palestinians killed in regime air strikes on the besieged refugee camp of Khan al-Shih south of Damascus, local council said Wednesday. Regime warplanes have carried out more than 50 raids on Khan al-Shih town and the Palestinian camp since Sunday, the town's local...

U.S.-led coalition aircraft waged a series of deadly strikes against Islamic State around the city of Falluja on Wednesday, U.S. officials told Reuters, with one official citing a preliminary estimate of at least 250 fighters killed and at least 40 vehicles destroyed. If the figures are...

The head of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, said on Wednesday he would be surprised if Islamic State was not plotting attacks within the United States and against U.S. targets abroad. On the conflict in Syria, Brennan, who was speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations think...

Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black box flight recorders on EgyptAir Flight MS804 and are preparing to analyze it, bringing them closer discovering what caused the jet to crash, Egypt's investigation committee said on Wednesday. The Airbus A320 plunged into the eastern...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Ice cubes or ice piece, a new unfamiliar reason pushes people in Moadamiyet al-Sham to gather and clash with each other during the Holy Month of Ramadan.  Mowafaq, 44, talked to Eqtsad about his suffering to get a piece of ice: “I spend almost...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A few kilograms of rice, sugar, bulgur wheat, dates, and some canned food is all what Oum Kassem was able to buy before the start of the month of Ramadan.   As is the situation of many Syrians inside Syria, the 60-year-old displaced lady in one of the camps in Idlib’s...

Trucks carrying medical and food aid entered two blockaded towns near Damascus on Wednesday, meaning that humanitarian agencies have now reached all besieged areas of Syria this year, the United Nations said. The 38-truck convoy carried aid for some 20,000 people the U.N. estimates are living...

 U.S.-backed Syrian rebels were pushed back from the outskirts of an Islamic State-held town on the border with Iraq and a nearby air base on Wednesday after the jihadists mounted a counter- attack, two rebel sources said. The New Syria Army rebel group had launched an operation on...

 United Nations-mediated talks to end more than a year of war in Yemen have adjourned and will reconvene in Kuwait on July 15 after the Muslim Eid holiday, the U.N. envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said on Wednesday. A shaky ceasefire coinciding with negotiations has paused fighting which...

Syrian rebels advanced into an Islamic State-held town at the border with Iraq on Wednesday, a rebel commander told Reuters, in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at cutting the jihadists' self-declared caliphate in two. The operation aiming to capture the eastern Syrian town of Al-Bukamal,...

At least five people were killed and scores wounded on Wednesday in a bomb attack on a local administrative office in the Kurdish-held Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the Turkish border, witnesses said. They said a suicide car bomber attacked the building run by Kurdish local authorities in the...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Besieged people of Gaza share Syrian refugees the suffering of siege that they have lived for years. Despite their small numbers those refugees experience a tragic situation during the holy month of Ramadan amidst...

Reporting by Oqab Malek; Translation by Rana  Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Syrian regime air force leadership has decided to terminate Suhkoi 22 M3 from the Squadron 685 and will incorporate the rest of aircraft to Squadron Sukhoi 22 M2 in Squadron 54 in al-Dumeir...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a big offensive on regime forces in coastal Latakia province, taking two hilltops in Jabal al-Akrad, activists said as regime forces and allied militias plan to mobilize more troops in the area. Rebels have seized Tellat a-Malek and Tellat...

Turkey has deployed two defense systems to its southern border to counter the threat of rocket attacks launched by Daesh in Syria, a security source said Tuesday. The Serhat and Korkut systems, which are both made by Turkish defense manufacturer ASELSAN, have been sent to Kilis province...

At least 36 people were killed Tuesday evening in a suicide attack at the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, the city's governor and media reports said. Two explosions hit the airport -- Turkey's biggest -- followed by gunfire, local television channels reported, adding that...