Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria , a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, saying the escapees included about 30 Kurdish fighters. The jailbreak happened in the town of al-Bab, 30 km (20 miles) south of the Turkish frontier,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have thwarted an attack launched by Syrian regime forces and its allied militia National Defense (NDF) on al-Tadamon neighborhood south of Damascus, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl. Commander of Ansar...

 A young German woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria was killed over the weekend in clashes with Islamic State fighters, Kurdish officials and a Turkey-based communist group said on Monday. The Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. air strikes and local rebel fighters,...

(Reuters) - At least nine members of Islamic State were killed during infighting in northwestern Syria after some of them tried to flee over the Turkish border, a group monitoring the conflict said on Monday. The fighters clashed on Saturday near the town of al-Bab, 30 km (20...