A U.S.-backed assault on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria, is unlikely to pierce the city itself before President Barack Obama leaves office in January, denying him the chance to claim the end of the group's "caliphate" as part of his legacy. Although a U.S.-backed alliance of...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Two people were killed and two others were injured following regime force shelling on the besieged al-Waer neighborhood the last of the revolutionary strongholds in Homs city.  The local coordination council reported that the regime forces shelled the neighborhood...

A Syrian opposition leader said opposition groups don’t need to recruit foreign fighters in their fight against the Bashar al-Assad regime in war-torn Syria. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Osama Rifai, the head of the Syrian Islamic Council, called for providing all forms...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl news site mourns its local reporter in Idlib province, Ammar Bakour, who lost his life on Sunday in regime air strikes on the town of al-Dana. Bakour passed away with 8 civilians when the regime warplanes rocked the the town with 4 vacuum missiles. The...