Kurdish fighters backed by Russian bombing raids have driven Syrian rebels from a former military air base near the border with Turkey, a group that monitors the war said on Thursday. Rebel groups have been distracted by a major offensive in the area by the Syrian army and its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military offensive by Syrian regime forces and allied forces have cut supply routes to 120,000 people in northern Homs governorate since mid-January, causing a risk of hunger and deaths due to lack of medical care, the United Nations said Thursday. "There are reports of...

Reporting by Ahmad Primo; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) The rapid advances of Syrian regime forces and allied militias in northern Aleppo province began early February, have encouraged Jaysh al-Thuwar, key unit of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, to spread in the...

The Syrian government expects a tough battle for Aleppo, the city that has become the focal point of the country's long civil war, but is confident of victory and says it won't be a long fight.     Damascus aims to seal the border with Turkey, a major sponsor of the...