(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Criminal Security Branch subordinate to the Ministry of Interior in Latakia announced that a criminal gang, whose members belong to the National Defense militia, were arrested in a break with the Branch’s previous approach to National Defense members’ crimes. ...

United States-backed forces cut off the last escape route for Daesh (ISIS) from Raqqa on Thursday, a monitor said, trapping the besieged extremist inside their de facto Syrian capital.  Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces captured two villages on the southern bank of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Sources from inside Homs city reported that an explosion, which was heard in Homs city and its countryside shortly after midnight, was caused by the regime or one of its militias’ arms depots exploding after it was targeted with missiles or bombed during an air strike....

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces warned on Thursday of the prospect of fierce confrontation with the Turkish army in northwestern Syria if it attacks SDF areas, and said this would undermine the assault on Islamic State at Raqqa. Naser Haj Mansour, a senior SDF official, told...