US-backed fighters pierced jihadist-held Raqqa from the south for the first time on Sunday, crossing the Euphrates River to enter a new part of the Syrian city, a monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces have spent months closing in on the Daesh (ISIS) bastion Raqqa and entered the city's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 officers and soldiers from Homs, Latakia and Hama provinces were killed last June in clashes with the Islamic State and rebels, pro-regime media outlets said. The death toll included 39 officers who mostly killed by ISIS in the Syrian desert, also known as Badiya,...

President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...

At least 19 people have been killed after a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, according to a Syrian state television report. It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, blowing up two at the entrance to the city. The third was able to...