A war plane was shot down on Tuesday by Islamist rebels in an area south of the Syrian city of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army backed by allied militias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The monitor said a plume of smoke was seen as the plane caught fire...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded Tuesday in the rebel-held town of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in Idlib province, killing a woman and wounding ten people, local activists said. The explosives-laden car detonated near the town's Grand Mosque, activist Khaled Abu Abdullah told Zaman al-Wasl, leaving...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce fighting erupted between Islamice State and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the southern countryide of Hasaka province, activists said as the radical group claimed killing 40 Kurdish fighters. Hasaka-based activist Malaz al-Yousef said clashes took place...

Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday. Syrian state media did not disclose how many casualties were sustained...