The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that Islamic State fighters had seized control of the town of al-Qaryatayn in Homs province, part of a wider counterattack by the jihadists as they resist a fierce offensive in eastern Syria. There was no comment from the Syrian...

By Maya Gebeily  (AFP)- Just after sunrise outside Syria's Raqa, dozens of Islamic State group jihadists donned Kurdish military uniforms, piled into cars with weapons, and broke back into a district they lost control of months ago. The raid was the latest evidence that IS,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Saturday has executed three prominent figures of al-Sheitaat tribe who had been ambushed by ISIS after a support visit to their allied tribesmen in Deir Ezzor province. The radical group showed no mercy with key tribe in eastern Syria and Iraq after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria’s border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, Reuters said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding...