About 10,000 civilians have fled to a camp just north of ISIS' bastion of Raqqa with hundreds more arriving each day as the battle for the city nears, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Residents are escaping Raqqa under cover of night as U.S.-backed forces close in, taking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians were killed when two explosive devices detonated at the roadside in southern Daraa province, activists said Thursday.   The attack targeted a vehicle carrying Free Syrian Army commanders on the road of Kafr Shams-Aqraba in the northern countryside....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-led airstrike killed first aide of Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, the group’s news feeds said Thursday. Ben Ali was also known as Abu Sufyan al-Selmi and Abu Humama al-Athari, according to the leaked ISIS data which...

Russia said on Thursday it was systematically bombing any ISIS militants trying to flee Syria's Raqqa and had carried out two such bombing runs in the last week. A U.S.-led coalition is supporting an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in their campaign to capture Raqqa city, ISIS'urban...