Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman of Jabhat Thuwar Al-Raqqa, Muhammad al-Hadi, said Wednesday that his local rebel group had joined the Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by Haitham Manna, and Kurdish leader, Ilham Mohammed....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes took place Thursday in southern Daraa city as regime forces and allied militias press to capture a ground, local activists said. Rebels have thwarted the regime attack on al-Manshiya neighborhood in the Old City of Daraa, leaving number of regime troopers dead,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition's Higher Negotiations Committee said rebel factions who will approve the planned truce agreed by major powers on Thursday, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The United States, Russia and more than a dozen other nations, agreed on Friday to a cessation of...

(Al Arabiya English)- Saudi’s decision to send troops to Syria in an attempt to bolster and toughen efforts against militants is “final,” the spokesman of the Saudi-led coalition force in Yemen announced on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri, said that Riyadh is “ready” and will fight with...

The United States and its allies conducted 14 strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Wednesday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said in a statement. In Iraq, 13 included three strikes focused near Ramadi that struck an ISIS tactical unit and...

(The Guardian)- Syria’s national wealth, infrastructure and institutions have been “almost obliterated” by the “catastrophic impact” of nearly five years of conflict, a new report has found. Fatalities caused by war, directly and indirectly, amount to 470,000, according to the Syrian Centre for...

Michael Ignatieff and Leon Wieseltier (Washington Post)- As Russian planes decimate Aleppo, and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s largest city prepare for encirclement, blockade and siege — and for the starvation and the barbarity that will inevitably follow — it is...

(RBTH)- Russia and the United States might partially restore their bilateral cooperation on combating terrorism, which is now frozen; in particular, they might expand interaction in fighting terrorism in Syria, says Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov. "We are working on the dates...

The United States is pressing allies on Thursday to contribute more to a U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State that it says must be accelerated, regardless of the fate of diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is due to start...

Operations by Turkish security forces against Kurdish militants in the town of Cizre have been successfully completed but a curfew will remain in place, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said on Thursday in comments broadcast live by TRT television. Authorities imposed a...

NATO has agreed to start a mission in the Aegean Sea to help slow refugee flows and to stop people smugglers, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday. "It is important that we now act quickly," von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels.

President Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday he had previously told the EU's two top officials, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, that the time could come when Turkey would open the gates for migrants to travel to Europe. "In the past we have stopped people at the gates to Europe, in Edirne we...

Kurdish fighters backed by Russian bombing raids have driven Syrian rebels from a former military air base near the border with Turkey, a group that monitors the war said on Thursday. Rebel groups have been distracted by a major offensive in the area by the Syrian army and its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military offensive by Syrian regime forces and allied forces have cut supply routes to 120,000 people in northern Homs governorate since mid-January, causing a risk of hunger and deaths due to lack of medical care, the United Nations said Thursday. "There are reports of...

Two female suicide bombers killed at least 58 at a camp for people made homeless by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said on Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit the remote region. The attack happened in Dikwa, some 90...

Reporting by Ahmad Primo; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) The rapid advances of Syrian regime forces and allied militias in northern Aleppo province began early February, have encouraged Jaysh al-Thuwar, key unit of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, to spread in the...

The Syrian government expects a tough battle for Aleppo, the city that has become the focal point of the country's long civil war, but is confident of victory and says it won't be a long fight.     Damascus aims to seal the border with Turkey, a major sponsor of the...

Rebel groups urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do more to stop Russian bombing raids in Syria as pressure mounted on Washington ahead of a new round of peace talks this week. World powers are meeting in Germany on Thursday to try to revive the first effort in two years to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists have circulated online photos for a Palestinian refugee in Germany who once gained fame as one of the most notorious intelligence figures in Palestine branch in Damascus. Syrian interior ministry had issued seven warrants and prison sentences for Mazhar Adnan...

(Hurriyet Daily News)- The U.S.-led coalition will not allow Turkey to realize its “crazy” plans of a full-scale invasion of Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with daily Moskovsky Komsomolets on Feb. 10, according to TASS news agency, adding that Turkey and the...