(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have pressed more advances in Jabal al-Akrad area in the coastal Latakia province, taking tow hilltops, activists said. Rebels have seized a-Malek and Rasha hilltops after fierce fighting with regime forces and allied militias, according to activists....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish self-administration allowed entrance of tens of displaced Iraqi migrants to al-Houl town in the Hasaka eastern countryside in the past two days after the families were stuck on the borders between Iraq and Syria. Field activist Malaz al-Yousef told Zaman al-Wasl more...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lilyas al-Zaim, 19-year-old Syrian refugee student has passed the Norwegian high school exams with distinctions, achieving full marks as the high school level in the scientific branch. She achieved a total of 60.4 which is one point higher than the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 people killed late on Monday in regime air strikes on the ISIS-held town of al-Bab northeastern Aleppo city, media center said. 20 more people, including medics, have been wounded in the attack that hit the town's main hospital, Aleppo Media Center said.  

Eleven Kurdish rebels and three of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in clashes near the Iraqi border, the Fars news agency reported Tuesday. "A group of 11 counter-revolutionaries linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), who were attempting to infiltrate the...

An airstrike early Tuesday by a Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen's southern province of Taez killed 25 people - 15 fighters and 10 civilians, security officials said. The airstrike also wounded eight civilians, the officials said. Most of the victims were shoppers or...

Thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's northeastern border with Syria are running out of food after a militant suicide attack prompted the army to shut the area, international relief workers and refugees said on Monday. Jordan, a staunch U.S. ally, declared the area a closed...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hours passed of Yarmouk battle in the countryside of Latakia revealing that rebels have controlled many sites in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkmen added to killing dozens of members of regime’s forces. The opposition’s armed formations have...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that secret excavation operations in the historic city of Palmyra are underway, aiming to find claimed Jewish antiquities backed by Russia which has the upper hand in the city. The sources...

Iraq's army sought on Monday to eliminate Islamic State fighters holed up in farmland west of Falluja to keep them from launching a counterattack on the city, a day after the government declared victory over the militants there. Backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, Iraqi artillery...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplane hovers and drops its destructive load. Houses get destroyed and buildings fall. People get killed and injured. Others lose their limbs. Every day this horrific scene is repeated and perhaps every hour in Ghouta of Damascus. As...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has apologized to Russian leader Vladimir Putin over last year's shooting down of a Russian air force jet by Turkey's military, the Kremlin said on Monday, opening the way for Russia to lift economic sanctions. The Russian jet was shot down, with...

Syrian student Ali Khaled Stouf has to walk down several steps into a hole in the ground to get inside his school -- a cave. There for four hours each morning, he studies subjects like Arabic, English, maths and religion, sitting on a rug with dozens of children in the underground space in...

Four suicide bombers killed at least five people and wounded 19 more in a series of attacks in a Lebanese Christian village at the border with Syria on Monday, the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the...

Translation by Yusra  Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have killed 10 regime troops in missile attacks hit their vehicles in Jabal al-Akrad in Latakia province, activists said. Rebels hit the troop carriers near Ayn Alqantara district in Jabal al-Akrd with Tow...

 (The New York Times)- Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Islam Army group said Monday it has downed two regime warplanes, posting footage online. A helicopter was shot down in al-Bhariya village in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs by OSA-AKM, surface-to-air missile, while Mig-29 was shot down near Sayqal Military Airbase 50 miles...

Twenty-five children were reportedly killed in air strikes that hit heavily crowded areas in a town in eastern Syria, the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) has said. Quoting reports from its local partners in Syria, UNICEF said health workers were reported to have pulled bodies of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- General fear and resentment of locals in pro-regime areas in Latakia countryside are taking over since scores of villages in Jableh countryside underwent armed robbery by masked men. Bayt Yashout News Network posted on Facebook calling for neighboring villages to take...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday have captured ground surrounding the ISIS-controlled city of Manbij in Aleppo province, the U.S.-backed alliance said in statement. The Syrian Observatory for human Rights said violent battles are taking place in Sawame area south of...