Arab and Kurdish militias expect to storm Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa in early summer, one of their commanders said on Friday, with the help of weapons they are awaiting from the U.S.-led coalition against IS. Abdul Qader Hevdeli, a commander of the militias known as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Immodest rude practices which breach public morals have widespread in coastal Tartus city that required the Headquarter of Tartus police to create a police station to control breaches of public morals and threaten peace in community.  Tartus police has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched surprise attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northwestern Hama province overnight, killing and wounding 28 troops, pro-regime news feeds said Friday. The attack took place north of Salamiyya city near a highway links...

More than 1,200 people including rebels left two opposition-held districts of Damascus on Friday under an agreement that will bring Syria's government closer to exerting full control over the capital. For more than two years, the government of President Bashar Assad has touted such...

A U.S.-backed alliance of Arabs and Kurds will launch their final assault on ISIS' Syrian bastion Raqqa in early summer, two commanders from the force said Friday. "The attack on Raqqa will take place in the beginning of the summer," Syrian Democratic Forces commander Rojda Felat told AFP....

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an interview with Belarusian TV Channel ONT aired on Thursday, said he will not back down from fighting his enemies. He pledged to defend de-escalation zones, brokered by Russia, and crush, with the support of Iran and Hezbollah, those who will try to breach...

( The Guardian )- Doctors in Syria have turned to crowdfunding in a desperate attempt to keep makeshift hospitals running in caves and underground. Rules governing how aid budgets are spent have tied up funding, forcing medics to seek alternative means of building and reinforcing the...

The capture of a key Syrian town and a nearby dam from ISIS militants by Syrian Kurdish-led forces undermines the ISIS's ability to defend its de facto capital, Raqqa and disrupts its ability to plan attacks in Western countries, the U.S.-led international coalition said Thursday. Tabqa and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State said it had killed 104 militants fighting under the banner of Syrian Democratic forces less than a day since the radical group lost strategic Tabqa city and Euphrates dam to the  US-backed   forces, the group's news agency said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The largest batch of al-Waer neighborhood’s evacuees on Thursday has left the last rebel stronghold in Homs city, heading Jarablus town at the Turkish border due to an evacuation deal forced, till now, 15700 people to leave Homs in weekly batches, local reporter said....

U.S.-backed fighters hunted for extremist holdouts in Syria's Tabqa Thursday after overrunning the city and nearby dam in a step forward for their advance on ISIS stronghold Raqqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces scored one of their biggest victories against ISIS as controversy intensified over...

The United States may start distributing some arms and equipment to Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria "very quickly" but it will be done incrementally and closely monitored, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said on Wednesday. Despite fierce opposition from NATO ally...

( Bloomberg )- Mexico has surpassed Iraq and Afghanistan to become the world’s second-most deadly conflict zone after Syria, according to a study of wars around the globe. The number of fatalities from the expanding war among Mexico’s criminal cartels grew to 23,000 in 2016, compared...

A US-backed alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters on Wednesday captured the key city of Tabqa and the nearby dam from ISIS extremists, a monitor told AFP. "The Syrian Democratic Forces seized control of Tabqa and the adjacent dam," said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for...

Air strikes killed at least 11 people, including four children, in a village north of the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, a war monitoring group said on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes, thought to belong to the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, hit...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Mu'tasim Brigade, part of the Euphrates Shield, announced Wednesday the mandate of the International Coalition for the receipt of 11 villages in the northern suburb of Aleppo from the Syrian Democratic Forces militia (SDF), which is dominated by the militia of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- PKK Syria's branch, the PYD militia, has killed two brothers during a raid on an Arab village in the area of Abu Rasin in Hasaka on Tuesday , residents said .  They were killed following PYD raids to find an Arab fighter who deserted the People’s Protection...

A top Syrian Kurdish official says the U.S. decision to arm Kurdish fighters with heavier weapons will help legitimize the force, which is denounced as a terrorist organization by Turkey. The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will arm the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces "as...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime airstrikes on ISIS-held areas northeastern Syria, have killed at least 20 civilians, including family memebrs, local monitoring group and activists said Tuesday. The strikes hit the village of Dibsi Afnan near Tabqa city leaving 16 people,...

Syrian government warplanes struck rebel outposts near the Jordanian border early Tuesday, rebels said, bringing the war closer to Syria's U.S.-allied neighbour to the south. The airstrikes, at around 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) were the first near that part of the border, a Jordanian official said....