(Middle East Eye)- Syria's grand mufti has sided with India over the Myanmar Rohingya crisis in a TV interview last week. In an attempt to justify attempts to deport up to 40,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees, the Indian government told the country’s top court last week that the Rohingya who...

U.S.-backed fighters Monday combed through a central district of Syria's Raqqa that once housed key Daesh (ISIS) command centers, recovering communication equipment and weapons used by the militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured around 90 percent of Daesh's one-time...

Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and millions displaced since the war erupted in...

RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Raqqa’s hospital, a big complex pocked with bullets holes, whose capture will signal the end of Islamic State’s crumbling Syrian capital, lies just 200 yards from a front-line base of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Beyond it, a roundabout where the jihadists once...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hezbollah’s al-Radhwan forces commander Ali al-Aa'shiq has been killed in a blast in Syrian al-Badiya desert along with fellow commander, the Lebanese militia said on Monday. The blow come hours  after a U.S. drone bombed Hezbollah bastions in Hamima village east...

At least 15 people were killed on Monday by bombings that targeted a police station in the capital Damascus' Midan neighborhood, pro-government al-Ekhbariah TV reported. Several suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in front of the police station and inside, according to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia’s warplanes have conducted more than 50 raids since early Monday on eastern Deir Ezzor province, killing at least 14 people in the border town of Albukamal, local monitoring group said. Furat Post said the deadly strikes on the strategic town have topped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 Hezbollah militants killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike on their bastion in the Syrian desert at the enclaves of Deir Ezzor province, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Monday. The death of the Lebanese militia has increased in the last four hours to a total of 20...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria’s border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, Reuters said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday that Islamic State fighters had seized control of the town of al-Qaryatayn in Homs province, part of a wider counterattack by the jihadists as they resist a fierce offensive in eastern Syria. There was no comment from the Syrian...

By Maya Gebeily  (AFP)- Just after sunrise outside Syria's Raqa, dozens of Islamic State group jihadists donned Kurdish military uniforms, piled into cars with weapons, and broke back into a district they lost control of months ago. The raid was the latest evidence that IS,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State on Saturday has executed three prominent figures of al-Sheitaat tribe who had been ambushed by ISIS after a support visit to their allied tribesmen in Deir Ezzor province. The radical group showed no mercy with key tribe in eastern Syria and Iraq after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria’s border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, Reuters said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people, including newborn, have been killed in regime artillery shelling on Talbiseh town in central Homs province, local reporter said on Saturday. The rebel-held northern countryside of Homs has endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment despite the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people killed and 40 more wounded in airstrikes on the town of Albukamal at the Iraqi border as regime forces backed by Russia aerial cover press to deter an ISIS assault in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said on Saturday. Activist Ibrahim Khalil told...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Syrian gril has been selected by UNICEF as a candidate for the International Children's Peace Prize one of  Un’s awards to individuals who fight for children’s rights, raise awareness and spread hope throughout the world.  Najwa Fattouh, 16,...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Friday have killed at least 41 civilians, including women and children, in northern Idlib province, topping the death toll of heavy bombing to 200, local monitoring groups and activists said. 28 people were killed and...

Some 700 French adults, one-third of them women, and about 500 children are in jihadi-held areas in Iraq and Syria, an official at the French president’s office said on Friday, raising potential legal challenges over how to handle them. The presidency official said that half of the 500...

At least 10 Hezbollah fighters were killed Friday in an attack by Daesh terrorists in Syria’s Homs district, according to websites linked to the group.  The pro-Hezbollah websites, which typically publish the names of Hezbollah casualties in Syria, posted photos of the 10 slain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS new agency posted footage on social media shows dozens of slain regime troops said they have been killed in eastern Deir Ezzor province. Amaq said ISIS fighters had killed more than 48 regime forces, including top officers, near al-Shoula town west of Deir Ezzor in...