Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian media he would only quit power if the Syrian people wanted him to and not under pressure from the West, a transcript of the interview published Wednesday showed. "As for the president, he comes to power with the...

Al-Shamiya Front said its air defense battalion in the northern province of Aleppo has downed early Tuesday a Syrian army helicopter near al-Nayrab airport, the key rebel group said in statement. Abu Hassan ,rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that the helicopter was filled by food and basic...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Local activists based in Tal-Tamer town in the western countryside of Hasaka city said Asayish, an armed group affiliated to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), had been looting  houses of the Arab villages in in the Kurdish predominantly region northeast Syria....

A U.S.-led coalition attacked Islamic State militants on Sunday with 18 air strikes in Iraq and four in Syria, the military said in a statement released on Monday. The Iraq attacks were concentrated near Baiji and near Kisik, the Combined Joint Task Force said in the statement. Four air...