Russia said Wednesday it opposes a draft U.N. resolution on Syria's use of barrel bombs which is being promoted by France, Britain and Spain because it could jeopardize upcoming international talks on how to restore peace to the conflict-wracked country. Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew...

A "significant increase" of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday. The escalation of attacks by air forces the group did not identify, which began in late September, had targeted 12...

Syria's main political opposition body did not get an invitation to international talks on the country's four-year-old civil war that will take place in Vienna Friday, one of its members said. "That didn't happen," George Sabra told Reuters Thursday when he was asked about whether the Syrian...

he United States is intensifying its diplomacy to end the "hell" of Syria’s civil war even as it increases support for moderate rebels fighting Islamic State militants, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday The chief U.S. diplomat leaves for Vienna later in the day...

Turkey will "do what is necessary" to prevent U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish rebels from declaring autonomy in the town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border, including conducting further military operations, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. NATO member Turkey is part of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Army of Conquest took control of a village in northern countryside of Hama city after heavy clashes with Syrian regime troops and their allies, rebel commander told Zaman al Wasl on Wednesday. Abu Khaled, member in Ajnad al-Sham's media center, said Fatah Army, or the Army...

More than 20 years after Saddam Hussein's soldiers in Iraq killed his brother in front of him, Ali Alghazally still suffers from night terrors he blames on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a common problem among refugees often left untreated. As the United States prepares to take in...

The U.S. president's special envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS militants said Wednesday that as the U.S. continues to build its military options in Syrian, European nations might consider combat operations to battle extremists. Retired Gen. John Allen's testimony before the Senate...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called for international protection for Palestinians against “extrajudicial killings” by Israeli security forces. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council, Abbas asked the Security Council to “urgently… set up a special regime for international...

After the failure of its $500 million program to stand up a Syrian volunteer force to battle Islamic State extremists, the Obama administration has begun an effort to enable Arab militias to fight alongside a Kurdish force that has gotten U.S. air support for the past year. The stated U.S. aim...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Hasaka)- Bulldozers supported by a military patrol belonged to Democratic Union Party (PYD), had on Saturday dredged 10 houses of Arab residents in south neighbourhoods in the city of Tal-Tamer in Khabour area to the West of Hasaka province. ...

A senior member of Syria's Western-backed political opposition came out on Wednesday against Iranian participation in Syrian peace talks in Vienna, saying their presence would undermine the political process. The United States has said that Iran, the main regional ally of President Bashar...

Saudi Arabia will take part in talks on Syria in Vienna on Friday to test the willingness of Russia and Iran, the Syrian government's main backers, for a political solution to the conflict, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Wednesday. "The view of our partners... was that we should test...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighter on Wednesday have withdrawn from neighborhood took Tuesday in northern town of Sfiera near Aleppo after heavy clashes with Syrian regime troops and fighters from Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, backed by Russian air strikes, according to Sfiera News Center....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Two new members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed in northern countryside of Aleppo, Fars news agency said Wednesday. Iran's news agency said IRGC Lieutenant Muslim Nasser and an Afghan Khan Ali Yousafi, from Al Mahdi brigade were killed in...

The United States and its allies carried out 14 airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq Tuesday, said a U.S. military statement Wednesday that reported no air raids against the militant group in Syria. The attacks in Iraq hit ISIS fighters, weapons and equipment near six cities, including Ramadi...

The parents of the first Russian soldier to die in Syria are demanding a repeat autopsy, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported on Wednesday, a day after they said they doubted the military's account that their 19-year-old son had hanged himself. The body of Vadim Kostenko, the first Russian...

Talks between Russia and the United States may produce a chance of peace in Syria, Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general who tried unsuccessfully to forge a deal to end the war in 2012, said on Tuesday. "In this situation the role of Russia and the U.S. are key. If the two...

The Syrian National Coalition, key opposition group, is preparing to take legal action against officials in the United Nations over expired biscuits case that were sent to besieged towns near Damascus on Oct. 18, source told Zaman al Wasl. The United Nations said Saturday it had mistakenly sent...

At least 14 people, including 4 children and a woman, were killed when Russian warplanes struck rebel-held villages in the southern countryside of Aleppo, activists said Tuesday. Syrian troops and fighters from Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah militia, backed by Russian airstrikes have waged major...