Nour el-Din al-Zinki movement has thwarted an attack launched by Syrian forces and allied militias on Salahuddin neighborhood in northern city of Aleppo, killing 17 soldiers, the rebel group said in statement posted online Thursday. The Islamist movement said it repelled regime army in...

Aleppo's moderate rebels backed by U.S.led air strikes have made a progress in the northern countryside against ISIS fighters after fierce fighting, activists said on Thursday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said rebels had taken 5 checkpoints from ISIS in Om Housh and Om Qura villages, taking...

Muscat and Damascus agreed to work together to end Syria's brutal war, official media reported, as the Syrian foreign minister Thursday made his first Gulf visit since the conflict erupted in 2011. Foreign Minister Walid Muallem met Oman's chief diplomat Yussef bin Alawi to discuss "several...

 ISIS has seized control of the desert city of al-Qaryatayn east Homs after a major offensive started by Tuesday, followed by number on suicide bombs rocked Syrian army strongholds at the gates of the city, supporters of the hardline group and activists said Thursday. By taking...