(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine militiamen loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed  on Tuesday  in clashes with ISIS in the Syrian desert, local activists said. Despite the victory declaration against the extremist group in Syria, ISIS militants still control swaths of territory in the...

Turkey said on Tuesday it could expand its military mission in Syria to two other provinces, potentially bringing its forces into confrontation with U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers its enemies. Turkish troops have operated an “observation mission” in rebel-held...

Shaven-headed former jihadists filled a classroom in northern Syria as a Muslim cleric taught them a more moderate form of Islam than the version they had imposed in Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Their class was in a new rehabilitation center for Islamic State members set...

When the Syrian uprising began in 2011, Karam al-Masri was a young law student in Aleppo. His schoolteacher parents had raised him to be an engaged citizen, so Masri followed anti-Assad regime protesters into the streets, and posted to Facebook the video footage he captured on his old Nokia...