Two rockets fired across the border from Syria killed two people and injured four others on Friday in Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis. Reporting from the scene, an Anadolu Agency correspondent said that one of the rockets landed in an empty field behind the Kilis courthouse and...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Skirmishes reported Friday between Syrian Kurdish forces and regime militiamen in the northeastern city of Qamishli despite a ceasefire deal, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. The Kurdish internal security force, the Asayish, said in statement posted online, it had agreed on...

Twenty civilians were likely killed and 11 others injured in nine U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria between Sept. 10, 2015, and Feb. 2, 2016, the U.S. military said on Friday. The deaths brought the number of civilians killed since the U.S. air campaign against...

After a brief respite, bombs are falling heavily on Aleppo, forcing people there to think again about whether it is time to get out of a city at the epicenter of the Syrian war. The momentary normalcy brought by a truce is gone. The parks are empty again, the streets deserted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people have been killed and 20 wounded on Friday in regime air strikes on northern Aleppo city, local reporter said. The aerial bombing targeted neighborhoods of al-Mashhad, Bustan al-Qasr, al-Ansari and Bab Hadid. Recapturing all Aleppo has been a regime priority...

Russia’s latest military moves in Syria have sharpened divisions within the U.S. administration over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin genuinely backs a U.N.-led initiative to end the civil war or is using the negotiations to mask renewed military support for Syrian President...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local councils of the embattled Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus warned of a humanitarian crisis as regime forces step up its ground and aerial attacks, calling on International Community to preserve the U.N.-brokered ceasefire deal, according to statement issued...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria has vowed to take fragile peace talks into next week despite a walkout by the main armed opposition, a breakdown in a truce and signs that both sides are gearing up to escalate the five-year-old civil war. Staffan de Mistura, who dismissed the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (EQTSAD)- Baroha, a small village in the western countryside of central Homs province, with a population counted 2300 people before the Syrian revolution, the majority of them (85%) were Sunni, and the rest were from the Alawite minority. It is adjacent the village...

Three soldiers were killed when an explosion hit a military vehicle in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Friday, security sources told Reuters. Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast has been hit by waves of violence in clashes between government security forces and members of...

Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek improved operational coordination with Moscow, Israel's top-selling newspaper said on Friday. The unsourced report in Yedioth Ahronoth gave no dates...

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Five global public relations firms have made pitches to the Chinese government for a potential new campaign, four sources said, as Beijing tries to communicate more effectively with the West.  The competition by the leading Western PR companies comes amid intensifying...

Reporting by Eqab Malek; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's air force directorate has rewarded military pilots who conduct the deadly air strikes on Syrian people, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The rewards were disbursed by the M.General Jameel al-Hassan, head...

More than 21 pro-government militiamen have been killed in two days of battles with Syrian Kurdish forces in northeast Syria that has widened the Kurds' control over a city at the border with Turkey, a Syrian Kurdish official said. Five members of the Kurdish internal...

The largest aid convoy so far in Syria has reached a besieged rebel-held town in the centre of the country. Sixty-five lorries are delivering food and medicine to about 120,000 civilians in and around Rastan, in Homs province. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian Red...

The United States said on Thursday it was concerned about reports that Russia is moving more military equipment into Syria to bolster President Bashar al-Assad, with a truce in tatters and peace talks in meltdown. A U.S. official separately said Russia has been repositioning...

Syria's prime minister and foreign minister on Thursday accused European and regional powers of supporting terrorists and fuelling fighting in the country, in a defiant tone from Damascus after a halt to peace talks this week. Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki said Saudi Arabia,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A fierce fighting erupted Thursday between Kurdish PYD militia and regime's paramilitary wing the National Defense Forces in northern Qamishli city, activists and a monitor said. Despite regime's aerial bombing on Kurdish areas, a senior official from Damascus has arrived in...

(Reporting by Elaph Qaddah; Translation by Rana Abdul) (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian sport has brought back to the headlines again after the World Karate Federation has agreed on the participation of the Free Syrian team, group of athletes who defected Syrian regime, in the Open European...