Kurdish authorities have sent thousands more troops to the oil region of Kirkuk to confront "threats" from Iraq's central government, the vice president of the autonomous Kurdistan region said Friday. Tens of thousands of Kurdish soldiers were already stationed there and another 6,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have conducted more than 10 raids on ISIS-held areas in southern Damascus suburbs, local reporter said on Friday. The surprise aerial attack on al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood come after two years of calm amid reports of evacuation deal...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities has released a Syrian pilot who was detained seven months ago after he ejected from his warplane at the Turkish border, pro-regime Masdar News reported on Thursday. Colonel Mohamed Soufan, 55, has been freed by the Turkish 3rd Court in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State suicide attackers killed at least 50 people in a triple car bomb attack on Thursday among a group of refugees in northeast Syria, a medical source in the Kurdish Red Crescent said.  A large number of people were also injured by the three car bombs set...

A first convoy of the military operation that Turkey is carrying out in Syria's Idlib province crossed into the area late on Thursday, two rebels and a witness said. The convoy included about 30 military vehicles, said Abu Khairo, a commander in a Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel group...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime and Russia on Thursday have stepped up its aerial campaign on ISIS-held areas in Deir Ezzor province along the Iraqi border, killing 11 people, local media group said.  The attacks targeted the town of Albu Kamal and neighboring villages, leaving...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Army's elite Fourth Armored Division has become the only military unit to control checkpoints in Daraa province which used to be under the intelligence control, sources said. The move gives Maher al-Assad's forces the upper hand in southern Syrian as well it...

(Reuters) - Sally Jones, a British jihadi who recruited online for the Islamic State group, has been killed in Syria by a U.S. drone along with her 12-year-old son, The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday. A convert to Islam from southern England, Jones was nicknamed the “White Widow” by...

A ceasefire deal for a Syrian rebel enclave south of Damascus was reached on Thursday, brokered by Cairo and Moscow, Egyptian state media said. The agreement, which includes the Jaish al-Islam rebel faction, went into effect at midday on Thursday (1000 GMT), Egyptian state television...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six rebel factions led by former al-Qaeda group have launched assault on an ISIS affiliated group in southern Daraa province, field sources said on Thursday. Tahrir al-Sham alliance backed by Ahrar al-Sham and four armed groups is seeking to defeat Jaysh Khaled Ibn...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 fleeing people have been killed on Wednesday in Russian airstrikes on eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping death toll of strikes on displaced people to 100, local media group said. Furat Post news site said the strikes had targeted civilians were trying to...

KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters in the Syrian city of Raqqa are expected to fight to the death, but some local militants have surrendered recently as U.S.-backed forces close in on their last strongholds, a U.S. coalition spokesman said on Wednesday. Colonel Ryan Dillon...

A Spanish diplomat has been proposed to head the world's chemical weapons watchdog at a critical time for the organisation's disarmament work in Syria, diplomats said Wednesday. A vote on the appointment of Fernando Arias, 65, is expected to be taken by the 41-member executive council...

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the main police headquarters building in Syria's capital Damascus Wednesday, killing at least two people, the interior ministry said. The attack is the second time in a month that suicide attackers have targeted the capital, which has often...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of allowing Islamic State to operate “under its nose” in Syria, saying Washington was letting the militant group move about freely in an area abutting a U.S. military base. The allegations, made by Russia’s Defense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people killed on Tuesday in the US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city as fall of the de facto capital of the Islamic State seemed to be imminent, local monitoring groups said. Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that 16 civilians mostly women...

The U.S.-led coalition battling Daesh (ISIS) said Wednesday that it won't accept a negotiated withdrawal for hundreds of Daesh militants holed up in the Syrian city of Raqqa, once the extremists' de facto capital. The remarks by coalition spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon, came as coalition...

 Moscow accused the US on Tuesday of reducing air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq to let jihadists into Syria and fight the Russian-backed Syrian army, claims the Pentagon denied. Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the Syrian regime was attempting to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have handed over Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey to the opposition’s Interim Government on Tuesday, local activists said. The strategic crossing near Azaz town in northern Aleppo province will be under the full control of the Coalition's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 20 thousands people have been trapped by the Islamic State in the newly-captured town of Qaryatayn east of Homs, activists said. Media activist Abdullah al-Kareem said ISIS is using civilains as human shields refusing to let them leave to the eastern countryside...