(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel group al-Shamiya Front on Tuesday made more progress  north of Aleppo, taking control of al-Mayyasat hill day after capturing strategic Majbal al-Braij district. Field sources told Zaman al-Wasl that Islamist...

(Reuters) - Forty-one Islamic State militants were killed in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Tuesday as U.S.-led air strikes helped local forces push the group to the city's edges, a monitoring group said. The predominantly Kurdish town, known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic,...

(Reuters) - An estimated 670,000 children in Syria are being deprived of education after Islamic State forces ordered schools closed while the curriculum is made to conform with religious rules, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. Islamic State, an offshoot of...

(Reuters) - Western states are focusing too much on tackling Islamic State and are forgetting the daily suffering of ordinary Syrians in areas of the country where the medical situation has become catastrophic, a group of Syrian doctors said. Some 200,000 people have died...