The Fatah Army on Friday has seize a new village in Sahl al-Ghab plain, an advance follows a week of gains, activists said while regime supporters lament 27 soldiers killed in the battles. In less than one week, key Islamist rebel group was able to regain villages and hills from regime...

The United States and it allies conducted 27 airstrikes against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Eleven airstrikes were carried out in Syria, including seven near the city of Hassakeh, the U.S. military said in a statement Thursday. In Iraq, militant targets...

The U.S. and Turkey are forging an alliance of convenience to deal with the Syrian crisis, cooperating to create a zone free of militants despite sharp disagreements over the role of Kurdish fighters. After several months of criticism that it was not doing enough to fight militants from ISIS,...

The main Western-backed Syrian opposition, long distrustful of Russia over its backing of Syrian President Bashar Assad, is due to visit Moscow next week amid a renewed diplomatic push to settle the conflict, a source and Russian wires said. The National The main Western-backed Syrian...

Nour el-Din al-Zinki movement has thwarted an attack launched by Syrian forces and allied militias on Salahuddin neighborhood in northern city of Aleppo, killing 17 soldiers, the rebel group said in statement posted online Thursday. The Islamist movement said it repelled regime army in...

Aleppo's moderate rebels backed by U.S.led air strikes have made a progress in the northern countryside against ISIS fighters after fierce fighting, activists said on Thursday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said rebels had taken 5 checkpoints from ISIS in Om Housh and Om Qura villages, taking...

Muscat and Damascus agreed to work together to end Syria's brutal war, official media reported, as the Syrian foreign minister Thursday made his first Gulf visit since the conflict erupted in 2011. Foreign Minister Walid Muallem met Oman's chief diplomat Yussef bin Alawi to discuss "several...

 ISIS has seized control of the desert city of al-Qaryatayn east Homs after a major offensive started by Tuesday, followed by number on suicide bombs rocked Syrian army strongholds at the gates of the city, supporters of the hardline group and activists said Thursday. By taking...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday he had reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart on a draft U.N. resolution aimed at identifying the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. "We also talked about the UN Resolution and indeed I believe...

 At least 14 Syrian rebels surrendered to Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the border city of Zabadani Wednesday, as allied forces inch closer to claiming control of the last rebel stronghold along the Lebanese frontier, a security source told The Daily Star. Syrian army’s 4th Armored...

The United States has conducted its first drone strike into northern Syria from a base in Turkey, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, ahead of what Ankara said would soon be a "comprehensive battle" against Islamic State militants there. A spokesman in Washington said the raid by an unmanned...

Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has evacuated its bases in two border villages with Turkey, activists said on Wednesday, a step seen by observes intrudes to the planned Turkish buffer zone. Nusra Front did not assured the withdrawal news from Hewar killis and Ghazel villages to favor...

 In less than one week, key Islamist rebel group, the Fatah Army, was able to regain villages and hills from Syrian regime army in northern province of Idlib, a move has triggered panic amid Bashar al-Assad's supporters in the neighboring Sahl al-Ghab plain and pushed tens of Alawite...

Syrian Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday it had been in talks with an Iranian delegation regarding the Syrian city of Zabadani but that the discussions had been halted. Any such talks between the conservative Sunni Islamist group and Shi'ite Iran would be highly...

An ISIS suicide bomber late on Tuesday blew himself up at the gates of T-4 military airport east of Homs city, leaving 11 army soldiers dead, activists said. Syrian regime's powerful air base in Syria desert near ancient city of Palmyra has become a main target for the hardline Sunni group in...

One of Syrian regime's sincere tribal fighters has been killed in a land mine in Deir Ezzor city near the military airport, activists said on Wednesday. Abdulbaset Hamdo, commander of al-Ashaer Army, or Army of the Tribes, was killed due to a land mine planted on his road near Deir Ezzor...

U.S. aircraft and drones are arriving in Turkish air bases and a comprehensive battle against Islamic State militants will be launched soon, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. Turkey formally approved the use of its air bases by U.S. and coalition...

 At least 994 regime army soldiers, including 27 officers, had been killed last July, 70 of them were buried in mass grave in northern province of Idlib, Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union said. SRCU also reported death of 241 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad's forces in Zabadani city...

Iran will soon present the United Nations with a peace plan for Syria, where civil war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe and allowed the Islamic State group to flourish, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday. Tehran, which has stood by its ally, Syrian...

Fatah Army on Tuesday has killed 14 Syrian army soldiers in the northern province of Idlib, taking control of Tel al-Hekmah hill south of Jisr al-Shughour town, activists said. The Army of Conquest, or Fatha Army, has made advances against the military in several parts of Syria in recent...