A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families left the Lebanon-Syria border region on Monday under Syrian military escort, surrendering their enclave and traveling to eastern Syria after a week-long battle. A line of ambulances and buses were shown on Syrian state television...

The battle to oust Islamic State from its stronghold in the Syrian city of Raqqa should end within two months, a top-ranking Kurdish commander told Reuters, but said she expects the fighting to intensify. Nowruz Ahmed sits on the military council of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

Tens of thousands of Syrian nationals who fled their country's civil war to Turkey are returning home temporarily to Syria to celebrate a major Muslim holiday, Turkish officials said Monday. Almost three million Syrians have taken refuge in Turkey since the conflict broke out in 2011, the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Monday took strategic al-Mansour district in Raqqa city, such a gain nears the collapse of the radical group's capital, local activists said. The Kurdish-led alliance said 17 ISIS fighters were killed in the clashes...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Salamiya National Hospital east of Hama province has received bodies of 50 soldiers on Sunday were killed with 100 more in ISIS deadly suicide attacks near Raqqa city, local sources said.   Pro-regime media outlets said about 300 soldiers had been killed and...

U.S. Air Force pilot Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Renken knew that whatever happened next might escalate the war in Syria. The 40-year-old father of four was flying his F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet in “a race track” pattern around an Iranian-made drone, which had just tried to kill...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jordan has maintained a disciplined policy in the Syrian crisis and has followed a moderate methodology like other regional countries in the Syrian south especially after the balance of power in the south began to emerge. While the recent Jordanian statements raised the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently campagin reported on Sunday that ISIS attacked several US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) locations near al-Mansour street in Raqqa city.  Also, calshes took places between SDF and ISIS near Children Hospital and al-Moror...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement tortured a man to death n the northern countryside of Aleppo province over claims he was an ISIS fighter, relatives told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Ahrar al-Sham admitted in statement that members of the group had tortured Mohamed al-Ahmed...

A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the jihadists have been fighting the Lebanese army on one front and Hezbollah with the regime army on the other. The Lebanese army announced that a ceasefire in its own offensive took...

Iraqi forces raised the national flag on Saturday in the heart of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s stronghold in the country’s northwest, and said they were poised to take full control of the city after a week-long offensive. Tal Afar is the latest objective in the U.S.-backed war on the...

Syrian Kurdish authorities on Saturday began laying the groundwork for the first local elections in the federal system they are establishing in the country's north, an official told AFP. Hadiya Youssef, co-chair of the federal system's constituent assembly, said three rounds of elections...

( The Wall Street Journal )- Before launching the battle to capture Islamic State’s de facto capital, the U.S.-led military coalition dropped leaflets calling on extremists to surrender. On the ground, militants were going door to door, demanding that residents pay their utility bills....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes killed t hree shepherds on Friday in the southern countryside of Hasaka, medics told Zaman al-Wasl.   The U.S. strikes targeted sheep herds in an ISIS held territory near Markada, the last ISIS stronghold in the southern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime figures released showed that females are more likely than men to register at the employment offices, and by a very large percentage. The number of men registering has decreased significantly.  Raed Neama, the head of the employment office at the...

( BBC )- The jagged ruins of Sukhna, rising in the midst of an infinite expanse of desert sand, can feel like the middle of nowhere. But this strategic crossroads in eastern Syria, surrounded by gas fields, is a major prize for Syria's army in its offensive against the last remains of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven rebel factions operating under Elite Forces in northeastern Syria have joined the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, according to a statement issued on Friday.   The factions which mostly formed by tribesmen have defected from the Saudi-backed group...

Daesh (ISIS) militants pushed back government forces advancing on one of the last towns still in Daesh hands in the province of Raqqa, killing over two dozen soldiers and seizing vehicles, a Syria monitoring group and the extremists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition have carried out two airdrops of forces in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour province within the last 36 hours, tracking families of ISIS senior commanders, a monitor group and local activists said. The airdrops took place in the ISIS-held...

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces will launch an offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) from Deir al-Zor province "very, very soon", an official from the alliance told Reuters Friday. Ahmed Abu Khawla, head of the Deir al-Zor military council which fights under the SDF, said the assault might...