Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday the army had been forced to give up areas in order to hold onto more important ones in its fight with insurgents, and the scale of the war meant the military faced a man power shortage. He also said groups fighting to topple him...

 At least 60 Syrian army members and allied militants have been killed on Saturday in Southern Front’s major attack on their stronghold in the southern city of Daraa, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels and al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, announced Thursday a fierce...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State news feeds on social media said the radical group on Saturday has seized control of T-4 military air base east of Homs. The ongoing clashes to seize the biggest air base in Syria has erupted weeks ago, a move comes after rapid advances by the ultra-hardline Sunni...

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on Saturday detonated explosive laden trucks in two villages near the Kurdish-controlled Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, with reports of casualties, a monitor that tracks the war said. The UK-based Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks...