(Zaman Al Wasl)- One civilian tortured to death by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accused of collaborating with Daesh (ISIS) in Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Tuesday. The man was endured to electric shock and brutal torture along with one of the Islamic...

Like many students of her age, 16-year-old refugee Fatmeh dreams of becoming a doctor. And a modest monthly sum of less than 10 euros could make all the difference. Originally from the Syrian city of Aleppo, the teenager has been living in Adana in southern Turkey for six years with her...

U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on Monday. Trump signed a presidential proclamation sealing the move while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, saying the contested territory...

US President Donald Trump has recognised the disputed Golan Heights as Israeli territory in an election boost for visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, drawing a sharp response from Syria, which once held the strategic land. With Netanyahu looking over his shoulder at the...

 The U.S. special envoy for the coalition to defeat Islamic State said on Monday the fight against the militant group is not over, even though it is no longer able to control territory, and he said the United States does not know where the group’s leader is. Ambassador Jim Jeffrey,...

The Syrian foreign minister said the United States’ recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights will lead to its isolation, state television reported on Monday . Minister Walid al-Moualem added: “No matter how many years have passed, this will not change the fact that the...

US President Donald Trump has officially recognised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967, in a move hailed as "historic justice" by the country's prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces an election next month, was by Trump's side as he signed...

U.S.-backed forces in Syria Monday called for the establishment of an international court in the country to try suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants. The announcement came two days after the group’s "caliphate" was declared defeated. "We call on the international community to establish a...

More than 9,000 foreigners, mostly children, linked to the Islamic State group are present in a camp for the displaced in northeast Syria, a Kurdish spokesman said Monday. The total number of foreigners in Al-Hol camp includes more than 6,500 children, Luqman Ahmi, official spokesman for...

The elimination of Daesh’s (ISIS) physical “caliphate” closes a long chapter in the Syrian conflict, but the country’s 8-year-old war is far from over. What fronts or tensions look likely to flare up next? IS Daesh finally gone? U.S.-backed forces pronounced the death of the Daesh...

Daesh (ISIS) militants emerged from tunnels to surrender to the Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a Kurdish spokesman said, a day after their "caliphate" was declared defeated. An AFP reporter saw dozens of people - mostly men - file out of the battered jihadist...

The Arab League said Sunday it was not planning to discuss reinstating Syria's membership at a summit later this month, more than eight years after suspending it as the country descended into war. The pan-Arab bloc, which is set to hold its annual summit in Tunisia on March 31, froze...

For the millions forced to endure the Islamic State group's brutal rule, life in the "caliphate" was a living hell where girls were enslaved, music was banned and homosexuality was punishable by death. The jihadists applied an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic law across the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes erupted late on Saturday between powerful Tahrir al-Sham group and Daesh militants  in the northern town of Bennish, leaving a child dead, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Abu al-Harreth, the security officer of Tahrir al-Sham, told Zaman al-Wasl the...

Syria's Kurds warned Sunday that the thousands of foreign jihadists they have detained in their fight against the Islamic State group are a time-bomb the international community urgently needs to defuse. Speaking a day after Kurdish-led forces announced the final demise of the jihadists'...

A driver working with an NBC News crew in Syria has been killed by an explosive device in eastern Syria, where several media outlets are covering the liberation of the last sliver of territory held by Daesh (ISIS). Noah Oppenheim, the president of NBC News, said in a statement that NBC...

Syrian state media on Saturday cited a hospital in government-held Hama as saying 21 people suffered choking symptoms from poison gas after rebels shelled a village. A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said 21 people were hospitalized with choking...

More than 630 civilians were killed in the six-month operation against Daesh (ISIS) that culminated in its defeat by US-backed Syrian forces Saturday, a monitor said. The civilian dead -- among them relatives of Daesh fighters -- included 209 children and 157 women, the Syrian Observatory...

Druze on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday took to the streets in protest at US President Donald Trump's pledge to recognise the Jewish state's sovereignty there. Trump broke with decades of US Middle East policy, and longstanding international consensus, when he posted a Tweet...

The top military commander in Syria's autonomous Kurdish region urged Damascus on Saturday to choose the path of dialogue after his forces sealed a key victory over the Islamic State group. "We call on the central government in Damascus to prefer the process of dialogue," Mazloum Kobane,...