US-backed fighters have advanced to the edge of a key extremist-held town in northern Syria, a monitor said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an Arab-Kurdish alliance supported by US-led coalition air strikes and special forces advisers, surrounded Tabqa in early April. The...

Thousands of Syrians were stuck in and around Aleppo on Saturday as a deal to evacuate people from two Shi'ite villages in return for Sunni rebels and their families leaving two towns near Damascus halted, a war monitor and activists said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Strategic al-Manshiya district in southern Daraa city is almost under rebel control after rapid advances against regime and Shiite militias this week, rebel task room command said Saturday. al-Bonyan al-Marsous Operation Room, in statement issued Saturday, said rebels had...

Backed by Russian air power and allied militiamen on the ground, Syrian troops have recaptured entire cities from rebels and ISIS extremists in the past year, including the key cities of Aleppo, Homs and Palmyra. Yet for the past three years, President Bashar Assad's forces have been unable...