6 rebel factions operating in southern province of Daraa launched new battle aims to capture villages from regime army and its allied Shiite militias on the gates of the capital, a key rebel group said in statement  Tuesday . Alwyat al-Forqan group says rebels plan to take...

Syrian government officials have denied that Islamic State fighters captured an oil field which a monitoring group reported had been seized from government forces. Talal al-Barazi, governor of Homs province, was quoted by al-Watan newspaper on Tuesday as saying Islamic State fighters had...

ISIS killed 6 Kurdish Democratic Party fighters in northeastern province of Hasakah on Monday, activists said as Kurds and U.S.-led coalition have been intensifying aerial and ground bombardment to expel the hardline group from the north of war-torn country. Mahmoud al-Ahmed, activist, told...

  The United States has asked Greece to deny Russia the use of its airspace for supply flights to Syria, a Greek official said on Monday, after Washington told Moscow it was deeply concerned by reports of a Russian military build up in Syria. The Greek foreign ministry said the...