(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Pro-regime media outlets mourned 42 troops, including 11 officers, who had been killed by the Islamic State in the Syrian desert last June. The desert, also known as Badiya, extends over 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles) from central Syria to the borders...

US-backed fighters have launched a renewed attack on Daesh (ISIS) extremists inside their Syrian bastion Raqqa, seeking to retake a key eastern neighborhood, a monitor said on Saturday. "The Syrian Democratic Forces started a counter-offensive on Friday night to retake Al-Senaa," said Rami...

The Syrian government has vastly overestimated the size of the country’s wheat crop, officials, traders and farmers told Reuters, indicating that a population that has endured unrelenting war could struggle to feed itself this year. A large part of Syria’s agricultural heartland in the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- This amputated hand is that of a refugee who used to live in al-Nour camp in the Lebanese town of Arsal. It was found thrown on a mat on Friday. The hand is a sign and reminder of the Lebanese Majqul Company’s raid on the camp in search of those they call terrorists...