A Sukhoi military jet crashed while trying to take off from Russia's Hmeimim base in Syria on Tuesday, killing the crew, Russian news agencies quoted a military spokesman as saying. "The Su-24 plane rolled off the runway and broke up while accelerating for takeoff... The plane's...

US-backed fighters say they are nearing the "final week" of their assault to drive Daesh (ISIS) from their one-time Syrian bastion Raqqa, as the extremists' self-described caliphate crumbles. Losing Raqqa would be only the latest in a series of crushing defeats for the extremist group,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Tahrir al-Sham alliance, in statement issued Monday, has accused the Syrian regime and the Islamic State of mutual coordination to attack its bastions in central Hama province. The former al-Qaeda group statement followed a surprise attack by the...

Turkish troops have begun reconnaissance activities in Syria’s Idlib province as part of an international agreement to establish de-escalation zones, the military said Monday. The operation in the northwestern region, which borders Turkey’s Hatay province, was launched on Sunday under a...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that the United States was serving the interests of Islamic State by preventing the Syrian army and its allies advancing in some areas of eastern Syria. American jets have this year targeted pro-government...

Israel reportedly considered bombing crematoria created by the Syrian regime to burn and conceal the bodies of murdered political prisoners, but decided against it so as not to irritate the Americans or the Russians and avoid escalation on the northern border, t he Israel Hayom daily said on...

At least 11 civilians including two children were killed on Sunday in air strikes on a market in northwestern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes on the market in Idlib province's Maaret al-Numan were probably carried out by regime forces....

A final assault on Daesh’s last line of defence in its former Syrian capital Raqqa should begin on Sunday night, a field commander for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by a US-led coalition, said on Sunday. The assault on militants in the centre of Raqqa would focus on the...

Turkish forces exchanged fire Sunday with extremists from Al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate on the border of Idlib province, a monitor and eyewitnesses said, a day after Ankara announced an imminent operation there. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Saturday that...

Syria's army and its allies have encircled Daesh (ISIS) in the city of Mayadin, southeast of Deir al-Zor, in eastern Syria, a Syrian military source said on Sunday. Mayadin is one of the last strongholds of Daesh as it falls back upon the fertile area downstream of Deir al-Zor in the...

The mass retreat of the Islamic State group from its territories in Syria and Iraq has left Europe grappling with the risk of foreign fighters returning home. But in Belgium, authorities are also turning their attention to repatriating children stranded in the war zones. With an...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s aim in backing Syrian rebel fighters for a major military operation into Syria’s Idlib is to prevent clashes completely and facilitate the process for a political solution, Turkish foreign minister was quoted by the CNN Turk news channel as saying. Turkish...

The "final large fight" in Iraq against the Islamic State group will take place on the border with Syria, a general in a US-led coalition against the jihadists said Saturday. He spoke two days after Iraqi forces recaptured the northern town of Hawija, the centre of one of the militant...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Tahrir al-Sham alliance on Saturday vowed a bitter defeat for the Turkish-backed Syrian rebels hours after the President Tayyip Erdogan declared  “a serious operation” to begin in Idlib as Free Syrian Army is preparing to enter the area with the backing of Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven people on Saturday have been killed in the town of Khan Sheikhoun as regime warplanes step up heavy bombing on the northern Idlib and southern Hama areas, local activists said. The vacuum missile attack killed 3 men, 3 women and a child gril.   Syrian...

Some 120 Islamic State militants and 60 foreign fighters were killed in a series of Russian air strikes in Syria over the past 24 hours, the defense ministry in Moscow said on Saturday. "A command post of the terrorists and up to 80 (Daesh) terrorists including nine natives of the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday “a serious operation” was beginning in Syria’s Idlib and a Syrian rebel official said his group was preparing to enter the area with the backing of Turkish forces. Idlib and surrounding areas of northwest Syria are among the largest...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A disabled Syrian child with sever illness has failed for the fifth day to leave the Kurdish-held Qana refugee camp in northern Hasaka province. Jassem Hawwash, 7-year-old, who needs urgent health care has been trapped in the camp as the powerful Kurdish PYD...

The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill crumbling concrete onto either side of the narrow roads, block after block. Fighting between U.S.-backed militias and Daesh (ISIS) in the militant group’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance on Friday have launched new major attack on regime forces in Hama province, two days after Damascus declared that the central province is free of the Islamic State. The attack took place in the pro-regime village of Abu Dali which...