A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the extremist bastion of Raqqa in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces now control at least 40 percent of the town of Tabqa, and more than half of its heart, the Old City,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 8000 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad from coastal Tartus province have been killed in six years of war, a new death toll revealed by the governorate of main militant stronghold in Syria. At least 7986 troops and allied militants killed, 975 missing, 5450...

 Syria's military says its troops and allied fighters have repelled an attack by ISIS on a government-held area south of Aleppo province. The Saturday attack took place in Khanasser, southeast Aleppo – a strategic region that links Aleppo with central and western Syria. The...

Fighting between rebel groups in the biggest insurgent stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus entered a second day Saturday, while government forces pressed an offensive against the besieged enclave, activists said. The clashes broke out in part of the densely-populated rural area east...