French police are facing a new form of weapon during "Yellow Vest" protests – bags of fecal matter thrown bomb-like by demonstrators. On Saturday, "bags filled with feces were thrown at police and exploded. Three police officers were soaked through with it," Rudy Manna from the Alliance...

U.S.-backed fighters have slowed an offensive to take Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria because a small number of civilians remain there, though fierce fighting continues, they said on Monday. Islamic State faces defeat in the last shred of its main territory in Syria and Iraq...

Kurdish-led forces supported by coalition air strikes readied for more evacuations of civilians held as human shields Monday after smashing their way into the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces and its allies from the US-led coalition unleashed a deluge...

 U.S.-backed forces are slowing down their offensive against the last Islamic State pocket in eastern Syria to protect civilians who remain there, a spokesman for a militia force said on Monday, adding that the battle would still “be over soon”. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) faced...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched a surprise attack on an army barrack in the coastal Latakia province, killing and wounding dozen, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The attack in the mountainous region of Jabal al-Turkman followed the death of 21 regime troops in Hama province...

The Syrian regime attended a meeting of Arab states Sunday for the first time since its conflict broke out in 2011, marking another step towards the country's political reintegration into the region. Syria's parliament speaker, Hammouda Sabbagh, travelled to Amman for an Arab...

The Dutch husband of a British teenager who was stripped of her citizenship after joining Daesh (ISIS) wants to return to the Netherlands with her and their child, the BBC reported Sunday. Shamima Begum, 19, left London with two school friends to join Daesh when she was 15 but now wants...

A Syrian jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda killed 21 regime and allied forces Sunday near Idlib province, in one of the deadliest breaches of a six-month-old truce deal, an activist group said. "At dawn, 21 fighters from the regime forces or allied militia were killed in an attack by...

The U.S.-backed Syrian force closing in on Daesh's (ISIS) last territorial bastion near the Iraqi border expects a "decisive battle" Sunday after advancing slowly, a spokesman said overnight. Capturing Baghouz, an eastern Syrian village on the bank of the Euphrates River, would cap four...

Fighters with the U.S.-backed force battling Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow the push on the last area they control, a spokesperson for the group said. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

Ten members of Islamic State were summarily executed in Syria’s Idlib province on Saturday by Tahrir al-Sham, according to Ebaa News Agency, a news outlet that supports the rival jihadist alliance. Ebaa said the executions were in response to an Islamic State suicide bomb attack at a...

More than 1,000 people managed to leave ISIS held al-Baghouz towards areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to multiple reports, however 51 people also perished. On Tuesday, 1,400 individuals, including "at least" 350 ISIS members left al-Baghouz toward SDF...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least nine regime army troops killed by missile attack launched by the former al-Qaeda group in Idlib province, the group’s propaganda agency said Monday. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants have rocked an army battalion with the US-made TOW missile east of Idlib city,...

At least four people were killed in shelling by regime forces on Syria's Idlib province on Monday, local sources have said, bring the civilian death toll from government bombardments this year to over 80. The Syrian regime attacked the town of Khan al-Sabil with artillery shells,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The head of the regime’s Military Intelligence Division on Sunday has met with the residents of Tafas town in southern Daraa province at a Russian request to discuss the fate of detainees, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The heavy-guarded Maj. Gen. Mohamed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One civilian has been killed and dozen wounded by regime shelling in northern Idlib province Sunday, local activists said.  The artillery fire struck the town of Khan Sheikhoun, marking a week of daily bombardmet in the southern countryside.   At least...

Syria's state news agency says a land mine left by the Daesh terrorist group has struck a van packed with workers, killing 24. SANA said the explosion on Sunday near the central town of Salamiyeh was caused by explosives left behind by the militants when they controlled the area. A mine...

A propaganda train displaying weapons and military vehicles that the Russian military seized in Syria is now en route from Moscow to the far eastern port city of Vladivostok. Many of the weapons on show in the train's carriages were made in the U.S., France, Israel and Italy....

Turkey's defense minister told Pentagon officials there must not be a vacuum of power during the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported Saturday. A senior U.S. administration official said on Friday Washington would leave about 400 U.S. troops...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six children were killed  Friday in Maarrat al-Nu'man when the regime forces hit the northern town with cluster bombs, Idlib Media Center reported.  An array of towns in Idlib province came under regime artillery fire in new regime escalation against the...