(Translation by Rana Abdul) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Education Directorate in Latakia countryside started a football league in Bidama on a playground prepared fast for displaced young men and school students to participate, activists said. “The shelling with cluster bombs and Assad and Russian...

More than 60 years ago, a bicycle thief in Louisville, Kentucky, unknowingly set in motion one of the most amazing sports careers in history. An angry 12-year-old Cassius Clay went to a policeman on that day in 1954, vowing he would find the thief who took his bike and have his revenge. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Billions of dollars were sent to hundreds of individuals, institutions and even government during the past years of the Syrian war without anyone revealing the total number of money of relief to the Syrian affected populations. The money which leaked to the wrong pockets....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of Military Intelligence Branch in Idlib province asked General Nufal al-Hussein in September 2011 to form a Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigade in Jabal al-Zaweyeh in Idlib countryside, according to Marwan Mekhbat. Mekhbat said General Nufal told him he will be the leader of...

(Eqtsad)- In the market of Carsi in the Turkish border city of Gaziantep, customers are astounded by the sparkle of the well-arranged pieces of gold exhibited in shop windows, but the moment you enter one of the Syrian shops you are confronted with the feeling of longing left by those...

The Syrian army backed by Russian air strikes has opened a major new front against Islamic State, the third big assault on the self-proclaimed caliphate this week after Iraqi forces attempted to storm a city and a Syrian militia advanced with U.S. support. The week's three big offensives are...

Three Minnesota men were convicted on Friday of conspiring to commit murder in Syria on behalf of the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said. Jurors convicted Guled Omar, 21, Abdirahman Daud and Mohamed Farah, both 22, on multiple counts in Minnesota federal court. All...

An offensive by U.S.-backed fighters in Syria to clear a strip of land along the Turkish border would free up to 40,000 civilians from Islamic State control if successful, the U.S. military said on Friday in its first briefing on the operation. The assault around the Syrian city of Manbij,...

Reporting by Ahmed Khalil; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Besieged areas are still suffer of hunger and lack of most essential needs, food, and medicine, even it reached to preventing children milk from entering these areas. Many attempts and campaigns took place aiming at least to let...

( Gazeta - Russia Beyond The Headlines)- The countries that use Russia’s most mass-produced second-generation main battle tank – the T-72 – should not worry about what to do with aging equipment and the transition of military operations from the field to urban conditions. The creators of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An alliance of rebel factions took a village and military depots from regime forces in the southern countryside of Aleppo, rebel source said Friday. The Conquest Army, including fighters from Ahrar la-Sham and Nusra Front, seized control of Ma'rata and ammunition depots near...

 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday Tehran had no intention of cooperating on regional issues with its main enemies, the United States and "evil" Britain. Khamenei also accused Washington of not being committed to a nuclear deal reached between Tehran and six...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Aleppo city killed at least 16 people on Friday, activists said as regime war planes step up its aerial bombing on the main gate of rebel-held districts. Ten people were killed in a missile attack targeted their minibus in Castillo road while 6...

A U.S.-led coalition fighting against Islamic State in Syria air-dropped weapons to rebels in the town of Marea in northern province Aleppo on Thursday, a rebel commander and monitoring group said. The commander, requesting anonymity, said ammunition was dropped. "The alliance dropped them...

Syria gave the United Nations and the Red Cross approval on Thursday to send humanitarian aid convoys into at least 11 of 19 besieged areas during June after the United States and Britain called for air drops due to a lack of access. In a statement the Syrian Mission to the United Nations...

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on Thursday, killing and wounding several people, a monitoring group and state media reported. The explosion took place near the city center as people were leaving prayers, state TV reported, describing...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful alliance group, the Conquest Army, said it had evacuated its bastions and barracks in the northern city of Idlib, demanding  regime to halt the aerial bombing that left dozens killed this week. In statement issued late on Thursday, the conquest Army, or...

Translation by Rana Abdul  (Zaman al-Wasl)- The Syrian regime has recruited agents in the ranks of Islamic State, leaked documents showed. The documents published in accordance with Damascus Documents include correspondence between Major General Ali Mamlouk, head of National Security...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians have been killed on Thursday in regime aerial bombing on the rebel-held city of Aleppo, activists and monitor group said.   8 people, including 5 family members, were killed in al-Sakhour and al-Saliheen neighborhoods in barrel bombs attacks. 5 more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Fatah, or the Conquest Army, who controls the northern city of Idlib came under fire by residents and activists amid spread of security chaos. Idlib has witnessed a series of assassinations and looting acts. Many rebel commander were killed as the number...