Rockets from Syria have landed inside Turkey's southeastern border town of Kilis, injuring several people, security sources and privately owned Dogan News agency said on Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the rockets came from Islamic State-controlled Syria. Kilis,...

Four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Syria, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, only a week after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war there. Tehran is Assad's main regional ally and has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Regime forces to launch major offensive on rebel-held areas in northern Aleppo province that will be completely led by Russia, activists and rebel commanders said. Bashar al-Assad's Prime Minister, Wael al Halqi, said in a meeting with Russian parliamentarians, “We,...

The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force said five strikes in Syria, four of them near Mar'a, hit tactical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained documents that demonstrate it is likely the Mauritanian journalist Ishaq Mukhtar, Sky News Arabia correspondent and other journalists are detained in an Isis prison. Documents show the name and description of the identity of security personnel and...

Three suicide bombers carried out explosions in a village in Russia's Stavropol region, close to the North Caucasus, Interfax news agency quoted a police source as saying on Monday. The suicide bombers were killed by the blasts and no one else was hurt, according to RIA news agency....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State militants took back six towns from rebels near the border with Turkey on Monday, four days after losing it to a grouping of rebels, a monitoring group and activists said. The ultra-hardline Islamist group seized the town of al-Rai from factions fighting under the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source considered that regime played Islamic State in Palmyra under Russian pressure to recapture historical city after 10 months of Isis control over the city. The source said Russia wanted to polish its presence in Syria in front of the International Community....

Islamic State militants took back a stronghold in Syria's northern Aleppo countryside on Monday, days after losing it to a grouping of mainly Turkish-backed rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Factions fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had...

Russia has sent the first part of its S-300 air defense missile system to Iran, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency on Monday. Russia says it canceled a contract to deliver S-300s, among the world's most capable air...

A rallying cry to Iraqi Sunnis from former President Saddam Hussein's top surviving aide aims to bolster the old ruling Baath party's appeal with Sunni Muslims fearing new reprisals by Shi'ite militias, experts said. They said the video released on Thursday could also contain a...

Writing by Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked document revealed that the National Command of Syria-ruling Baath Party has dismissed 358 members listed as “dismissed members of battalions.” A leaked document that Zaman Al Wasl obtained from the files related to...

Writing by Elaph Qaddah; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian people either in liberated of besieged areas face different kinds of problems and sufferings, they have exceeded the military aspects like shelling, bombing, destroying the infrastructure and houses, to reach to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy ground battles between Isis and rebel factions have been ongoing for the last past hours, local sources said. Rebel factions expelled Isis and recaptured villages of Yahmoul, Baraghida, Jariz, Tilal Hussein. According to the local sources, rebel factions continue to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.N. Special Envoy to Syria visited  Damascus on Sunday to meet with minister of foreign affairs of regime Walid al-Mualim and Russian ambassador in Damascus, according to close to the regime Watan newspaper. The newspaper pointed out the regime delegate to participate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led international coalition stepped up air strikes on Raqqa city, targeting civil neighborhoods and public facilities, local monitor said Sunday. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently Campaign said the International alliance air strikes started early dawn and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian government's servers have been hacked on Saturday and crucial data to be revealed soon, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. The anonymous hacker group has obtained confidential and dangerous information of 10 Gb of size related to Ministry of Finance, economy and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militia launched major attack on rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of Damascus, rebel commander said Sunday. Hamza Bairakdar, senior commander in powerful Jaish al-Islam group, said regime offensive started at the midnight to...

Swedish police say they are searching for a suspected arsonist believed to have torched a Muslim school before making off in a car that almost ran over a police officer. Malmo police spokesman Clas Svensson says the fire late Saturday in the southwestern city was under control and no one was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed and 3 held captive in an Isis offensive on SDF stronghold south of al-Shadadi town in Hasaka province, activists said. Local sources said clashes erupted between Isis and PYD-led SDF...