Controversial Egyptian television anchor Ahmed Moussa is known to throw caution — and sometimes facts — to the wind. To the amusement of his many critics online, his latest on-air misstep was no exception. During his most recent show, Moussa sang the praises of the Russian military, which began...

Local activists  said rebels have retaken Kafer Nabuda town on Monday noon, thwarting Pro-regime forces including the Lebanese group Hezbollah who captured earlier the southern part of town in  in Hama province in western Syria. Russian jets carried out...

Army of Conquest, dominant rebel group northwest Syria, said 30 Syrian regime troopers have been killed in the underway clashes, assuring that its fighters have repelled regime army attack in Ghab plain and in the eastern countryside of Hama province despite reports saying regime has reclaimed...

A Kurdish militia that has been backed by U.S.-led air strikes in Syria has joined a new military alliance that includes Arab groups, a statement released overnight said. The alliance calling itself the Democratic Forces of Syria includes the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and...

Russian warplanes pounded Syrian rebels unaffiliated with Islamic State on Sunday, insurgents said, helping Moscow's ally Bashar al-Assad reclaim territory and dealing a fresh setback to the strategy of Washington and its allies. President Vladimir Putin - who has infuriated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Yarmouk Army, key rebel group operating in the southern province of Daraa, said Sunday it has formed a political office; a move aims to make more integration between military action and political representation. According to the statement, Yarmouk Army said its armed struggle...

President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting airstrikes against ISIS targets. "We are not planning on doing this (conducting a ground operation), and our Syrian friends know about this," Putin said in an interview...

Iraqi security forces claim to have struck the convoy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the country's border with Syria. 'The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation targeting the convoy of the criminal terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,' Iraq's...

A top  commander with  the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group was killed on Saturday during battles in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, al-Mayadeen TV reported. The report said Hassan Hossain al-Haj ( aka Hajj Maher  and Abu Mohammad al Ikleem ) was killed during...

The Syrian regime army backed by allied Hezbollah militia have advanced in western Syria after heavy Russian airstrikes in areas around the main highway running through major cities, Reuters said on Sunday. After deadly clashes Bashar al-Assad army military and Lebanese militiamen took control...

Russia said on Saturday it had stepped up its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, while local observers said several of the air strikes had hit areas in western Syria where the hardline group has little presence. Russia, a top ally of President Bashar...

A senior regime army officer was killed in mainly Alawite district in central Homs city, when Ahrar al-Sham movement detonated an explosive device near his car. The dominant Islamist rebel group said three soldiers were killed with Col. Hassan Mahmoud Issa in Bab al-Dahab neighborhood,...

Syrian rebels on Saturday have seized a hill in Quneitra province near the Occupied Golan Heights after a surprise attack on Bashar al-Assad's forces, a move may set off  regime's alarm bells as rebels presence mounts southwest the capital.   Al Qabe'a hill that also known as the U.N....

Turkey-backed Islamist rebels have formed 'Al Sham Army, a new armed faction operating in northern province of Aleppo, an online statement by the newly group revealed on Saturday. The fighters who joined Al Sham Army, or the Levant Army, had fought before under banner of al-Qaeda's Syria wing,...

When it comes to air power, it’s no secret that the United States and the West have often held an edge over Russia. This dates at least as far back to World War II, when the United States and Britain were allied with Russia. While Russia supplied much of the manpower that ultimately defeated...

Russia's military intervention in the Syrian war has all but destroyed a deal agreed last month to halt fighting between warring sides in two areas of the west, unpicking a rare success for foreign-backed diplomacy in the four-year-long conflict. Implementation of the deal agreed with U.N. help...

Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite an intensifying Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group. News of the advance came as the...

U.S. President Barack Obama will overhaul Washington's approach to supporting Syrian rebel forces following this year's deeply troubled launch of a U.S. military training program, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday. Carter hinted the new approach would focus more on enabling forces...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl has been informed by sources within the National Coalition for the revolutionary forces opposition that a breach of the statement issued by the political body of the coalition and the fighting groups on ground in regard to rejecting the four working...

Islamic State fighters have seized Syrian villages on the outskirts of Aleppo from rival insurgent fighters, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite Russian air strikes that Moscow says have targeted the militant group. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps said separately one of...