At least 40 Islamic State fighters have been killed in an air strike on their convoy in the Syrian province of Hama, Reuters reported on Sunday. The attack, which took place on Saturday, also destroyed 16 vehicles in the convoy, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors...

An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition has killed Sanafi al-Nasr, a Saudi citizen and the leader of an al Qaeda offshoot called the Khorasan Group, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday. The Pentagon said al-Nasr organized routes for new recruits to travel from Pakistan to Syria through Turkey and...

(Video)-  Two Syrian women in Deir Ezzor province east Syria were lashed 30 times each for theft by Radical Islamic State group that claims following Sharia, according to footage posted on the social media by local activists Saturday. Activists said two local women had been accused of...

Russian planes carried out 39 sorties and hit 51 Islamic State targets over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The aircraft hit targets in Hama, Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo regions, it added, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, Fateh Aleppo, an alliance of Islamist...

AT CHECKPOINTS across the country, Iraq’s many and various security forces cheer Russia’s arrival as an answer to their failure to turn the tide after 16 months battling the jihadists of Islamic State (IS) in north-western Iraq. “The US and its coalition did nothing,” says a policeman,...

Italy said Saturday that UNESCO has approved its suggestion to have the United Nation’s famous Blue Helmets protect heritage sites around the world from attacks by Islamist militants. “UNESCO has said yes to the Cultural Blue Helmets,” Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said in a statement,...

Iran is to step up its military support for the Syrian regime in the form of advice on fighting terrorism, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saturday. Abdollahian, quoted by state television, denied that his country had fighters on the ground in the Syrian conflict....

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Alwaer neighborhood of the central city of Homs has almost disappeared from the scene of the Syrian revolution, especially after the beginning of the Russian attacks on countrysides of Homs, Hama, Idlib and Aleppo two weeks ago, in conjunction with the start of...

Syrian regime forces edged forward in the northern province of Aleppo on Saturday with air cover from Russian warplanes, but faced fierce resistance from rebel forces in the country's center, AFP reported. A Syrian military source told AFP that troops had advanced to within six kilometers...

Syrian rebels said Friday 20 troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the ongoing clashes in in northern and eastern countryside of Homs as well 15 others have been wounded and taken captive in an ambush. Regime troops and their Iranian ally, backed by Russian jets launch major...

Syrian rebels on Friday have recaptured ground in the underway fighting in rural southern Aleppo as regime troops and their Iranian militia, backed by Russian jets  expand a counter-offensive with support from Moscow's two-week-old air campaign.   Syrian Revolution Co-ordinations said...

The death toll of Russian air strikes on rebel-held village of Teir Malla north of Homs city rose to 34, activists told Zaman Al Wasl as regime troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets launch major assault on long-held and strategic enclave of rebels north and west Syria. More 9...

Turkish warplanes shot down an unidentified drone in Turkish air space near Syria on Friday and a U.S. official said Washington believed it was of Russian origin. The Russian defense ministry said all of its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and that all its drones...

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked insurgent fighters south of Aleppo on Friday, a source in Syria and a monitoring group and activists said, as the army expands a counter-offensive with support from Moscow's two-week-old air campaign. "The military...

Turkey has accused Russia of delaying the possibility of pulling Syria out of crisis through its involvement with airstrikes and military assistance. Russia began air operations in Syria on Sept. 30. The Kremlin claims the airstrikes are aimed at supporting the forces of Russia’s ally,...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The Tribes Battalion, key unit of Southern Front rebel group, has detailed circumstances around disappearance of of Captain Hussein al-Ahmad, the only Alawite defector among Free Syrian army in Daraa province. Last Saturday morning Capt. Hussein al-Ahmad was...

Russia's defense ministry said Thursday that its forces in Syria had set up a "hotline" with Israel's military to avoid clashes in the sky over the war-torn country. An "information-sharing" mechanism "has been established through a hotline between the Russian aviation command centre at the...

The death toll of Russian air strikes on rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday has reached 58, activists told Zaman Al Wasl as regime troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets launch major assault on long-held and strategic enclave of Syrian rebels. Activists said at...

Russian and Turkish planes had 13 dangerous encounters between Oct. 3 and Oct. 10, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Kemal Aydin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies during a visit to Moscow. He added that the encounters happened close to the border with Syria.

The Conquest Brigade, an Islamist rebel group operating in the town of Moadamiyet al-Sham southern Damascus, has tortured to death a Syrian man in his forties over claims he cooperated with Syrian regime, activists and victim's brother, journalist Ali Hamra said Thursday. Isam Hamra was...