(Zaman Al Wasl)- A humanitarian aid convoys reached two besieged towns by the Syrian regime in central Homs province, local reporter said on Sunday. 30 trucks loaded by food and medicine entered al-Dar al-Kabira and al-Ghanto towns west of Homs on Saturday as more aid to be delivered to...

Syrian rebels and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have mounted an offensive against Syrian government forces and on Saturday took a strategic hill south of Aleppo from government control, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the offensive began...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  A child killed and others injured during Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD)-led Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance disperse of a set-in in which hundreds of displaced participated including women and children on Saturday protesting the alliance preventing the displaced...

 Brussels Airport reopens Sunday with three "symbolic" flights and strict additional security checks for passengers, marking a new era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by ISIS suicide bombers. The key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Gazelle helicopters were strongly present during Russian officers leading Assad forces offensive on Palmyra. The helicopters played a crucial role in destroying vehicles of ISIS and its forticiations and advance points by using missiles from hot type. The Gazelle helicopter...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian rebels on Saturday launched a surprise attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northern countryside of coastal Latakia province, killing at least 25 soldiers, activists said. Media activist “Abdul Rahman al-Lazqani”said revolutionaries’ factions...

Two guards were killed in an attempted attack on an oil field in eastern Libya by suspected Islamic State militants on Saturday, a guards spokesman said. Ali al-Hassi said guards had repelled the attack on Bayda field, about 250 km (155 miles) south of the major oil terminals...

Greek authorities were gearing up Saturday to send hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, which is racing to set up reception centres under a controversial EU migrant deal. "Planning is in progress," Yiorgos Kyritsis, spokesman for Greece's refugee coordination unit, told AFP as...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An Islamic State-linked groups launched new attacks on Free Syria Army in southern Daraa province and border territory with Jordan on Saturday, activists said. The ISIS fighters launched attack to capture ground in Allajat region northeast of Daraa city from FSA as fellow...

 Syria's partial cease-fire is unraveling, as fierce fighting between pro-government forces and opposition fighters, including members of the al-Qaida affiliated Nusra Front, erupted Saturday outside the country's second largest city of Aleppo. At least 25 pro-government fighters died in...

Turkey's Coast Guard stopped 63 Palestinians and Syrians trying to cross to a Greek island on Saturday, underlining the scale of the security forces' task in convincing illegal migrants they won't be allowed into the EU. A controversial European Union deal to return rejected asylum...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 regime army soldiers killed on Saturday in an ambush set by the powerful Islam Army in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, group's media accounts said. Regime forces backed by allied militias waged major offensive on Saturday from four axis to make advances in...

Syrian troops found a mass grave containing around 40 bodies in Palmyra city, captured from Islamic State last Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday. SANA said the grave, which contained many women and children, was in the north-eastern edge of Palmyra. Some of...

The Syrian opposition is not optimistic about upcoming peace talks in Geneva because there is no international will for a political transition, opposition member Riad Hijab told Al Araby Al Jadid television late on Friday. The Syrian opposition has consistently said that it...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  The political inmates of Suwayda central prison southern Syria protested Friday against the successive violations of Bashar al-Assad’s cousin who spends a life-imprisonment sentence over pillaging and robbery. One of the political inmates was insulted and beaten by...

The U.S. administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria as it looks to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials, with direct knowledge of the proposal's...

One person was killed and others injured late on Friday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon after a dispute erupted into gunfire between rival political groups for the second time this week, Reuters witnesses and state media said. The outbreak of violence comes after...

HASAKA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes renewed between Islamic State and  Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday in areas on the borders of Deir ez-Zor province west to Markada town in the southern countryside of Hasaka. Kurdish sources mentioned that US backed “Syria Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground from Islamic State fighters in the northern countryside of Aleppo after fierce fighting left 15 ISIS militants killed, local activist said Friday. Activist Omar al-Shamali told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels had killed 15 ISIS fighters in Tal Battal...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the Iran nuclear deal has been successful so far but more work needs to be done to implement the agreement. Obama, speaking after a meeting of the six world powers that reached the deal with Tehran last summer, said the road to that...