(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army units pressed new gains against ISIS in a desert area east of Damascus, taking two bastions and strategic hilltops, commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Younes al-Salameh, spokesman for Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, or the Army of East Lions, mostly tribesmen, said they...

 In a muddy camp in northern Syria, civilians who fled Raqqa said fear of an expected U.S.-backed assault on the ISIS bastion was reaching a fever pitch. This week, hundreds of civilians escaped Raqqa and headed north to the camp in Ain Issa, in territory controlled by the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of Raqqa Provincial Council warned Saturday of imminent disaster as all solutions prevent Euphrates dam collapse are time-wasting. "Opening of al-Balikh Canal to relieve the pressure on the Euphrates dam'' has been of no use. On the contrary, it is exacerbating the...

Syrian state TV says scores of opposition fighters and their families have left the central city of Homs after being evacuated from the last rebel-held neighborhood. The TV says 350 people boarded 22 buses that later moved toward the country's north in the third evacuation from al-Waer...