The United States said on Tuesday it was falling far behind plans to build a Syrian opposition force to battle Islamic State, disclosing that just 60 fighters were in training after U.S. vetting thinned the number of recruits. The U.S. military launched its program in May to...

Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement on Tuesday has seized control of two checkpoint in Zabadani region, an advance came as Syrian regime army and its allied Hezbollah militia waging a major offensive on the border city with Lebanon started on Saturday. In statement posted online, Ahrar al-Sham said...

Syrian Kurdish fighters have recaptured more than 10 villages seized by ISIS north of its de facto capital of Raqqa, aided by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, the activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday. Fighters from the ultra-hardline Islamist group were,...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Ministry of Culture and Family Affairs in the Syrian Interim Government this week agreed to establish three directorates for education and family affairs and monuments in the Northern Countryside of Homs. Zaman al-Wasl learnt that Samah Hadaya, the Minister of...