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Hama prison siege worsens as inmates revolt

Conditions were worsening in a Syrian prison where nearly 800 mostly political detainees have launched a revolt, with security forces failing in an attempt to storm the facility overnight, rights groups and activists said on Saturday. The prison has been surrounded by government forces since...

Iran says several of its soldiers killed near Aleppo

Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran's biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized the strategic village of Khan...

ISIS fighters seize new gas field in eastern Homs

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State captures half of al-Muhur gas field north west of Palmyra following an Isis offensive on regime strongholds on Friday, activists reported. Isis captured the regime defensive locations of the field which led to regime withdrawal to the other part of the field....