The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists' stronghold of Raqqa province in a campaign backed by U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told...

The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front acknowledged on Saturday that its members were involved in the killing of Druze villagers in northwestern Syria this week, saying they had violated orders and would face justice. Twenty Druze villagers were reportedly killed in the village of Qalb Loze in Idlib...

Syrian rebels on Saturday announced a new battle in the northern countryside of Hama province, looking to extend a territory they control to link captured Idlib province. Fatha Men Allah battle stated by attacking  regime checkpoints in Sahl al-Ghab. Major. Jamil Saleh, head of the...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance toward an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists' stronghold of Raqqa province with the backing of U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told Reuters the YPG and...

Iran is bringing home the body of a top-ranking military officer killed in April in southern Syria, Iranian news agencies reported, at least the second senior Iranian to die there this year while supporting Damascus in the war. Hadi Kajbaf, a major general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary...

The Unified Command of Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus called on Nusra Front to join its alliance instead of forming 'Fatah Army in Ghouta,' according to statement issued Friday, The statement of the key rebel group in embattled Suburbs of Damascus came in response to a call by...

The Syrian government says it has come through worse phases in the four-year-old conflict than the latest advances by insurgents across the country and is confident its army can hit back with the help of its allies. Western officials believe losses in recent months by President Bashar...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, with other three rebel groups operating in eastern Qalamoun have formed their own version of Fatah Army as fighting with ISIS enters new stage after Palmyra takeover where the hardline group is pressing hard to seize control of Syria desert and Qalamoun...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed Three serious incidents took place in the regime-loyal parts of Homs city, but they pass through without any punishment or action taken. First one was in Abassiyeh neighborhood when many armed people advance toward a barrier for the regime and shot toward guards...

Members of Syria's Druze minority have helped repel a rebel attack on an army base in the south, mobilizing to confront insurgents including al Qaeda's Nusra Front who are trying to build on gains against President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based...

Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab Thursday urged Druze to form an armed force to defend themselves after at least 20 members of their community were killed by Nusra Front militants in northwest Syria. “We will not accept to sell Druze blood!” Wahhab, a former minister, said in an angry televised...

A Syrian rebel alliance said it had captured an air base from the army in southern Syria Thursday, a gain that would compound setbacks for President Bashar Assad in the area after losing a nearby military base this week. Issam al-Rayyes, spokesman for the Southern Front alliance of...

Israel's president expressed his concern to the United States on Wednesday about the fate of the Druze minority in Syria, saying around 500,000 of them were under threat from Islamist militants in an area near the Israeli border. Israel's Druze, some of whom have reached the senior echelons of...

A well-informed source said leader of key Syrian opposition, the National Coalition, has met with Zahran Alloush, Islam Army's commander and number of rebel commanders in Jordan's capital. Amman's secret meeting was organized by the Coalition in step to form a common ground  between...

A day after taking control of a major army base in Daraa province, Southern Front rebels on Wednesday announced a new offensive to capture a military airport near Sweida city, the main stronghold of Syria's Druze minority. Al-Tha'leh airport is rebels' second target after the takeover of Liwa...

ISIS militants blew up a pipeline feeding natural gas from eastern Syria to the suburbs of the capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British based activist group, said ISIS blew up the pipeline near the T-4 military airport...

Syrian air strikes on ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasaka killed at least 14 civilians, activists said Wednesday as battles continue between the radical group and Kurdish militias. Syrian regime's vacuum missiles targeted the northern neighborhood of al-Shadadi town, killing...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, called on rebel groups operating in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus to form Ghouta's version of Fatah Army, like what Nusra did in Idlib province and Qalamoun region. Forming 'Fatah Army in Ghouta' as Nusra urged in statement posted online on...

 Hikmat al-Hijri, Head of Druze sect in Syria has responded to Basher al-Assad’s call to recruit youth in army, by issuing a statement demanding all youth, who have not join the army yet, to go to the military conscription centres and join the Syrian Army. The statement titled “National...

Islam Army, key rebel group in eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, said in statement posted online it has kidnapped a senior regime official early Wednesday, asserting the abductee is not the Justice minister as media outlets circulated. Najm al-Ahmed, Syrian regime's Justice minister,...