U.S.-backed Syrian fighters in a major new offensive against Islamic State vowed on Thursday to cut off the last remaining access route to the outside world for the self-proclaimed caliphate, and won vital, if tacit, backing from Turkey. The assault around the Syrian city of Manbij, backed by...

Plans to airlift supplies to besieged towns in Syria inched ahead on Thursday amid concern from Russia and others about the safety of aid workers and uncertainty whether Damascus will approve, a U.N. official said. A proposed United Nations food convoy into the besieged rebel-held town of...

International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres on Thursday urged Turkey to open its border to some 100,000 displaced Syrians trapped by fighting including a recent Islamic State advance. Fighting near the Turkish border in northern Aleppo province intensified last week when IS launched...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday a U.S.-backed offensive against Islamic State in northern Syria was largely being carried out by Arab rather than Kurdish fighters, in a sign of tacit approval for the operation near Turkey's borders. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance,...

 Three Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a large-scale attack in the western city of Duesseldorf, the federal prosecutor said on Thursday. The plot was uncovered because a fourth Syrian man, identified as Saleh A.,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown assailants on Thursday shot dead 6 Ahrar al-Sham fighters in an attack on their checkpoint near the regime-held town of Kafriya in Idlib province, source told Zaman al-Wasl.  The assailants used silenced pistols in the attack , according to the source. The...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- the trade chamber of Damascus city has decided to unite with the community to face the unprecedented deterioration on the exchange rate of the Syrian pound against the U.S Dollar, calling traders to reduce prices as much as possible especially before the...

Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014. In Syria, U.S.-backed militia with thousands of Arab and Kurdish fighters were...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prices of products remained high especially food products regardless of the improved value of the Syrian Pound in front of the American Dollar causing general resentment in pro-regime areas. The SP recovered 20% of...

Syria's main opposition has proposed a nationwide Ramadan truce, opposition delegate Basma Kodmani said on Wednesday. The proposal was made in a letter from Riad Hijab, the coordinator of the opposition High Negotiations Committee, to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Kodmani said. "The...

Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters opened a major new front in Syria's war, launching an offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a logistics base and appearing to make swift initial battlefield advances. The operation, which began on Tuesday after weeks of...

Writing by Fuad Abdul Aziz; Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- At the first glance, the scene seems strange, men and women who have passed fifty years of age and who have adult children are sitting in language classes to learn the language of the European country they have chosen to live in,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al Wasl TV to stream online a series of short documentaries during the holy month of Ramadan that sheds the light on the most wanted people by the Syrian intelligence as the leaked archive showed. Zaman al-Wasl obtained months ago about 3.7 mn documents and criminal...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Press Club in Washington D.C. to host Friday Bashar al-Assad's aide and political adviser in a meeting discussing the Islamic Sate future and proper ways to be eliminated. Bouthaina Shaaban, the political and media adviser to al-Assad, to speak via Skype from...

The besieged Syrian town of Daraya, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus where President Bashar al-Assad has refused to allow aid to starving Syrians, got its first U.N. aid convoy since 2012 on Wednesday. Russia's Defence Ministry said a temporary ceasefire, which it called a "regime of calm", had...

At least 20,000 children in Fallujah are at risk due to ongoing fighting in the city between the Iraqi army and its allies and the Daesh terrorist group, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned Wednesday. In a statement, UNICEF representative in Iraq Peter Hawkins said...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- The YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the U.S. air strikes advanced against Islamic State in the last tract of territory the group holds near the Turkish border on Wednesday, taking 15 villages near Manbij city, a monitor group and activists said. The...

Ttanslation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee of al-Waer neighbourhood, the last stronghold of the revolution in Homs, has announced that the future of the neighbourhood is unknown, amid severe siege by a regime who has no moral or religious deterrent. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians killed Wednesday in suspected Russian air strikes on al-Mashlab neighborhood of the ISIS-held city of Raqqa , local activists said.  

The United States will continue to work with Turkey to fight Daesh but will also continue supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, the U.S. administration has said. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said during a briefing late on Tuesday that Washington would continue to talk...