A U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance has seized new territory west of ISIS' Syrian bastion Raqqa, bringing it closer to a final attack on the city, activists said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an operation to capture Raqqa in northern Syria last November, and have...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman al-Wasl)- Well-informed sources report that the authorities in Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan have prohibited the entrance of Syrian nationals holding passports issued by the opposition Syrian National Coalition. The news comes although,...

U.S.-backed forces captured a town west of Raqqa from Islamic State on Friday as they push toward the militants' Syrian stronghold, a security source and a monitoring group said. The United States said this week it started distributing weapons to Kurdish YPG militiamen who form a key part of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The former spokesman for Jaysh al-Islam on Friday has cut his links with the powerful Islamist group that operates in Eastern Ghouta suburbs after ten months since his resignation as spokesman after a controversial interview with an Israeli think received considerable...