Russia intervened to halt a clash between Syrian government forces and Turkey-backed Syrian rebels in northern Syria, sources on both sides said on Friday, the first confrontation between them as both sides fight Islamic State in the area. Islamic State is under attack from separate...

President Bashar Assad rejected the creation of safe zones for refugees and displaced people in Syria, an idea supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a transcript from an interview with Yahoo News released Friday. He signaled he would welcome cooperation with Washington in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- 6 civilians on Friday have been killed in regime airstrikes on Waer neighborhood, last rebel stronghold in central Homs city, local activists said. The aerial bombing on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood have killed 17 people in the past two days. A fragile...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army pressed further gains inside the the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab in northern Aleppo province, taking new neighborhood after three days since the Turkish-backed moderate pursued a major offensive to seize the strategic stronghold of ISIS. FSA took al-Hikma...