(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians, including a woman, were killed in regime artillery fire on a rebel-held area in the coastal Latakia province, activists said Thursday. Two more children were wounded due to the bombardment.  The artillery rounds have also...

 Hundreds of Islamic State fighters surrendered on Wednesday and hundreds more of their jihadist comrades were caught trying to escape the hardline group’s last, tiny scrap of land in eastern Syria, said a commander in the militia besieging it. Islamic State fighters holed up in the...

Veiled women carrying babies and wounded men on crutches hobbled out of Baghouz on Wednesday after US-backed forces pummelled the last jihadist village in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces leading the assault expected more fighters to surrender with their families in tow before...

Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria captured around 400 Islamic State group jihadists as they attempted to slip out of their besieged enclave of Baghouz, a senior officer said Wednesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces intercepted a large group trying to escape from the village, the last tiny...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A wife of Syrian journalist held captive by the military intelligence to press her wanted husbanded surrenders himself to the security in southern Daraa province , local activists said Tuesday. The military intelligence forces stopped and arrested wife of Mohamed...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he agrees with the decision to keep a military presence in Syria. His comments come two months after he abruptly announced Washington would be pulling all forces from the region. NBC News obtained a copy of a letter sent by a group of lawmakers...

An influx of thousands of people fleeing Islamic State has created “dire” conditions at the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, the aid agencies working there said on Tuesday. About 15,000 people have arrived at the camp in the last week alone as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

Hundreds of Islamic State militants have surrendered as they left the group’s last enclave in eastern Syria amid more than 6,500 people, mostly civilians, who were evacuated in the last 24 hours, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said on Tuesday. Islamic...

Hundreds of civilians streamed out of the Islamic State group's last Syrian stronghold Tuesday into territory held by US-backed forces battling to finish off the jihadists' dying "caliphate". A total of 3,500 people exited the riverside village of Baghouz, including 500 jihadists who had...

Prominent French jihadist Jean-Michel Clain was killed last month, his wife told AFP Tuesday after fleeing the last redoubt of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. Clain's wife Dorothee Maquere said he was killed in mortar shelling after being wounded in the coalition drone strike that...

A border gate between Turkey and northern Syria’s Afrin region is ready and will be opened next week, Turkey’s Trade Minister was quoted by state media as saying on Tuesday, advancing a project aimed at speeding up aid and equipment flows. The border crossing is dubbed “Olive Branch”, named...

A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting Daesh (ISIS) says thousands of people, including militants, have left the last area held by the extremists in Syria. Mustafa Bali tweeted that about 3,000 came out of the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria on Monday through a...

The Syrian military has mounted air strikes against Islamic State militants and clashed with the jihadists in central Syria, the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper reported on Tuesday. The flare-up in the area of al-Sukhna, between Palymra and Deir al-Zor, on Monday points to the foothold the...

Some 200 Islamic State fighters surrendered after a ferocious battle over their last shred of territory in eastern Syria, but around 1,000 may still be holding out, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian force battling them said on Monday. The jihadist group faces defeat in Baghouz on the...

Syria on Monday allowed factory owners to import fuel for three months, state media said, in a bid to lessen a combustibles crisis gripping the war-torn country. The government has traditionally been the sole importer of oil and its derivatives, but has been facing a flurry of international...

The chiefs of the US and Russian militaries met in Austria on Monday to discuss the situation in Syria, where a residual US military force will remain following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State group. General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with...

Kurdish-led forces supported by air strikes from an international coalition evacuated civilians held as "human shields" Monday after smashing their way into the jihadists' last scrap of territory in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces and its allies from the US-led coalition...

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was too early to restore diplomatic ties with Syria or reinstate Damascus to the Arab League without progress on a political process to end the eight-year-old war. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir also said Riyadh, which backed rebels fighting...

Scores of Islamic State fighters surrendered to U.S.-backed forces on Monday, a war monitor said, after a ferocious assault to overrun their last shred of territory in eastern Syria. Islamic State faces defeat in Baghouz, the only remaining patch of land it still holds in the area...

Attacks on civilian areas by the Assad regime and Iran-backed terrorist groups have adversely affected education in the Idlib de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, a local education official said Monday. "Educational activities in districts such as Khan Sheikhoun, Marratinuman and...