U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday hailed the defeat of Islamic State fighters in their self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa as “a critical breakthrough” in a worldwide campaign against the militants. On Friday, the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed an upcoming meeting of the Astana process on the Syrian conflict in the Kazakh capital in late October, the Kremlin said on Saturday. During their phone conversation, Putin and Erdogan talked about joint efforts...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people were arrested in the city of al-Tal, northeast the capital as regime froces waged new arrest campaign to hunt youth escaping conscription, local activists said Saturday. Murad Mardini, a communication officer in the Voice of the Capital network, said the...

The Syrian regime army and allied forces recaptured a town from Daesh (ISIS) on Saturday in central Homs province, where the extremists have lost vast territory in recent months, state media said. Syrian troops regained control of al-Qarytayn "after eliminating terrorist Daesh groups that had...