(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime Facebook group published on Thursday news of Russian soldiers fighting along the regime in recent combats in Kurds and Turkmen mountains in Latakia province. Media activists and military leaders in Latakia countryside documented Russian officers leading most regime...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new round of deadly air strikes on Aleppo city has killed seven people in al-Kallaseh neighborhood on Thursday, activists said in an initial death toll. Aleppo Media Center said women and children were among the casualties. Late on Wednesday, about 30 people were...

A military buildup in northern Syria, coupled with heavy fighting and mounting civilian casualties, spells the end of a cease-fire that for two months brought some relief to a war-weary country. The renewed violence is ushering in what could be an even more ruinous chapter in the 5-year-old...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior leader of pro-regime Syrian National Defense (NDF) was killed in ambiguous circumstances near Damascus, source said Thursday. Fida Nazmi Budur, 33, was NDF leader of Syria's southern region where he gains notorious fame over looting and robbery. Nazmi's body was buried...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 3000 Syrian migrants who trapped in Greek island Lesbos have clashed with police on Wednesday over repeated assaults i n Moria camp, migrant told Zaman al-Wasl via phone call. Tens of the angry crowd were injured as the Greek police fired...

The last paediatrician in Aleppo has been killed in an airstrike believed to have been carried out by the Syrian regime. Reports from the besieged city said Dr Wassim was among 14 people killed when jets attacked the Al Quds hospital in Syria. The airstrike, which destroyed the hospital,...

The Kurdish government in Iraq has dealt a blow to Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria by keeping the border closed for more than one month, an economic and political setback for the Syrian region as it plans for wider autonomy. The Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria believes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior commander in powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement was killed on Wednesday in an explosive device detonated near his car in northern Idlib province, local sources said. The attack targeted Saud al-Assaf, the military commander of Ansar al-Haq brigade, key unit in Ahrar...

A suicide blast killed one person and injured several others at the entrance of a historic bazaar in Bursa in northwestern Turkey Wednesday, the regional governor’s office said. According to reports, the blast took place near the historic Ulu Mosque, which is close to the bazaar. Bursa...

The United Nations said on Wednesday no date had been set for the next round of Syria peace talks, contradicting a report quoting Russia's deputy foreign minister as saying talks would resume in Geneva on May 10. U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura is struggling to keep the peace process...

Russia wants to know more details about U.S. plans to bolster its special forces in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. President Barack Obama announced on Monday the biggest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria since its civil war began. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said it had killed senior Islamic State commander in northern countryside of Homs province. Rafed Taha was killed with his comrade Aamer al-Aswad in the northern countryside, Nusra said in statement, without revealing when or where his...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The lingering time at the dark cell does not interrupt the sound of cough of one of the ex-detainees who got tuberculosis due to humidity everywhere in the Sednaya Prison. Abu Mohamed al-Shami, a virtual name, an...

The principle of secularism will be in Turkey's new constitution, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday, after the speaker of parliament sparked a public uproar by calling for a religious constitution. Davutoglu made the statement in a speech to his ruling AK Party in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Resentment and fury have reached momentum in government-held areas of Hama province due to countless abuses of pro-regime paramilitary group, security source told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Residents of the predominantly Alawite villages in the western countryside say NDF...

Syria peace talks in Geneva will resume on May 10, Russia's RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying on Wendesday. He was refferring to U.N. special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura who announced that, RIA said. The Syrian government said on...

The United States warned U.S. citizens in Turkey on Tuesday about "credible" terrorist threats to tourist areas in the country. Turkey has been hit by four suicide bombings already this year, most recently in Istanbul last month. Two of the bombings have been blamed on Islamic State, while...

The Sharia Court in Homs province gave prominent rebel commander Abdul Baset al-Sarout a week's notice to surrender himself to one of Islamic courts, otherwise will be sentenced in absentia over fighting with the Islamic State.   The notice stated, “following review of the lawsuit no...

Writing by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Municipality of Latakia has launched a campaign claimed aiming to clean the city from non licensed stalls in streets, but in reality they targeted the stalls of poor people only, leaving regime’s loyalists’ and...

Attacks by government forces and rebels killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in the last 24 hours in Aleppo, a city seeing some of the worst of a renewed escalation in the Syrian war, a monitoring group said. Intensified fighting has all but destroyed a partial ceasefire that...