Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane repulsed a new attempt by Islamic State fighters to cut off the border with Turkey Saturday as troops battled the jihadists in neighbouring Iraq. A Kurdish official reported five new US-led strikes around Kobane overnight as the...

(By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)-   Turkish President Rajab Tayib Erdogan expressed his surprise from the Syrian Opposition’s performance, in particular the disagreements among its political and military...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Inclusion of the Kurdish language in the curriculum for grade-1 of schools in al-Hasakah, delayed the start of teaching in primary schools in the city as a result of...

  (IANS/EFE) At least eight Islamist rebels died when a car bomb exploded near one of their bases in the northern Syrian province of Idleb, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday. The London-based NGO said that the attack took place Thursday near a...