Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State on Thursday launched an attack on Syrian regime’s pastions in the city of Deir Ezzor and the military airport in Eastern countryside, then fighting broke out at many fronts led to several death from both sides. Abo Abdul Rahman...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Derik camp near Mardin city at the Syrian-Turkish borders, witnessed several incidents of fire, which incited huge worried about the safety and neglect the Syrian refugees suffer compared to other camps in Turkey. the latest comic-tragic accident...

Turkey is investigating Russian claims that Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq have profited from smuggling stolen antiquities through its territory, but it believes the charges are politically motivated, a Turkish official said on Thursday. Russia's ambassador to the...

Migrants held on the Greek islands Lesbos and Chios live in "appalling" conditions with little access to legal aid or information about their fate under a European Union agreement that will send some back to Turkey, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Under a deal between...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters on Thursday have recaptured Sahm al-Goaln town from Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa as clashes enter its third week in the southern province, activists said. The Yramouk Martyrs Brigade and key ally al-Muthanna Movement...

Turkey has adopted a rule granting temporary protection status to Syrian migrants sent back from Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, a step required under an EU-Turkey deal to combat illegal migration, according to Turkey's Official Gazette. The status would be given to Syrians who...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- ISIS fighters have kidnapped 300 cement workers in an area northeast of Damascus where the militants launched an assault against government forces this week, Syrian state television said Thursday. The workers and contractors of Al Badia Cement company were taken from...

U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday he would travel to Damascus and Tehran and meet other regional officials to seek a common understanding on Syria's political transition, delaying the start of a round of peace talks by two days. De Mistura said he had already...

The chairman of a U.N. humanitarian taskforce on Syria said on Thursday he was disappointed by a slowdown in aid access, largely because of blockages by government-backed forces, but he hoped there would be a major evacuation from four towns. Jan Egeland said the evacuation was...

France blamed Syria's government on Thursday for a breakdown in a truce and preventing an improvement in the humanitarian situation, the foreign ministry's spokesman said. "It (France) condemns the violations of the cessation of hostilities for which the regime is responsible...

Syrian rebels seized control Thursday of ISIS’s main supply route to Turkey, a monitor said. “Rebel factions and Islamist took control of the northeast of Al-Rai,” a town occupied by ISIS on the border between Syria and Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “This is the main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has increased its military presence in Hmeymim air base with attack helicopters deployed for night operations and complicated weather conditions in the last few days, close source to regime said. The source refused to disclose his name said new Russian deployed Mi-28...

U.S. officials are discussing with the Turkish military and government how the moderate Syrian opposition can push Islamic State farther east in Syria, Washington's ambassador to Ankara said on Thursday. "We have had some progress in recent weeks as these groups pushed further...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Iraqi forces to allow aid to enter the Islamic State-held city of Falluja where it said tens of thousands of residents face acute shortages of food and medicine. The Iraqi army, police and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias - backed by...

An Iranian delegation will meet Saudi officials next week to discuss arrangements for this year's hajj pilgrimage, the first dialogue between the rival powers since a diplomatic crisis erupted in January. Riyadh severed diplomatic ties with Iran on Jan. 3, a day after its missions in Tehran...

Displaced residents of the famed Syrian city of Palmyra, recently recaptured by the army, will begin returning to their homes at the weekend, a government official told AFP Thursday. Syria's armed forces recaptured Palmyra and the adjacent world-famous ruins from the ISIS on March 27, ending...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- 8 players from Karamah and Wathba soccer clubs left Syria without permission to leave, a document leaked by Sports Office-Baath Homs Branch says the branch received a record to inform for their leaving in 14 January 2016. The document signed by Homs Branch’s head Subhi...

As many as three people were wounded when rocket fire from an Islamic State-controlled area in northern Syria entered Turkish territory, striking the border town of Kilis on Thursday, security sources. The artillery hit a house in the town center, they said. Another police source...

Writing by Abdulhafiz al-Holani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Amna Mohammed Bakar, a grandmother from Qusayr in Homs Countryside, refugee in Lebanon, has pledged to give the name of “Daraya”, the name of well known suburb of Damascus, to her first grandchild if it was a girl....

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- The majority of youths joining the Islamic State group add to its vitality by investing their energies and enthusiasm. The “simple minded” form the majority of those joining Isis’s ranks. It is an acceptable percentage that may be...