Syria’s key Islamist groups of Ahrar al-Sham has merged with Suqour al-Sham in one rebel group on Sunday, the leaders said in video statement posted online. ‘Battalions of S uqour al-Sham’ to be the name of the newly-born Islamic faction, Hashem...
Syrian rebels have captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of the country's northwest, activists have said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that four crew members...
(Reuters) - Nine British medical students have traveled to Syria , apparently to work in hospitals controlled by Islamic State, Britain's Observer newspaper reported on Saturday. The group of four women and five men crossed into Syria from Turkey last week, having traveled from...
(Reuters) - Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its "brothers residing in America" to kill them. The Pentagon said after the information was posted on the Internet that it...
At least 63 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed on Friday in a surprise attack by the hardline Islamic State group near Salamiyah city in the eastern countryside of Hama province, activists and monitoring group said. Pro-ISIS Twitter...
A well-informed source said the Syrian National Coalition will boycott Cairo conference over Syria next April as the talks will not discuss overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. The source told Zaman al-Wasl that the Western-backed opposition group had...
Syrian regime air strike late Friday killed at least 5 civilians, including two children, in al-Mashhad neighborhood of Aleppo, activists said. Activists and medics told Zaman al-Wasl that 5 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a missile targeted the rebel-held neighborhood...
At least 37 people were killed Friday in a suicide attack targeting Newroz celebrations in Syria's northeastern Hasakah governorate, the Syrian National News Agency said Saturday. Ninety-six people were also wounded in the attack that hit the Mufti region of Hasakah....
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he finds it unlikely that the U.S. administration and institutions would support Syrian President Bashar al -Assad. The Turkish president's comments came at a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart,...
Islamic State fighters have carried out a massive attack on Syrian regime forces in the eastern countryside of Hama, cutting the supply route to Aleppo, activists said on Friday. The initial reports said ISIS militants have killed more than 50 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad near...
(Reuters) - The United States and its coalition allies staged eight air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq since early Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement. One strike hit near the key Syrian border town of Kobani,...
A Christian cleric was severely beaten by fighters of National Defense Forces, Pro-Syrian regime militia, in Safita city near Tartus northwest Syria last Tuesday, a monitoring group said. The Assyrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Father George Deeb Joseph, 40,...
(Reuters) - After allowing the United States to use its air space to bomb Islamic State fighters for six months, the Syrian army appears to have imposed a "red line" by shooting down a U.S. drone over territory of critical importance to Damascus. The U.S. military has said it...
Some U.S. allies in the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria may be willing to send troops to accompany and support the Syrian opposition force the coalition is planning to train and send back to Syria, Army General Ray Odierno said on Wednesday. Odierno, the U.S. Army...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Video)- A video posted on YouTube by Nusra Front’s media showed the fighters of al-Qaeda’s Syria wing storming a tent for Hezbollah fighters by B 9 missile in Qalamoun Mountains on the border with Lebanon. According to the footage...
Syrian regime forces took control of half of Handarat village north of Aleppo on Wednesday, as fighting is still raging in and around the village, Zaman al-Wasl reporter say, denying reports of taking full control of the strategic village. Bashar...
(Photos)- Social media pages loyal to Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have circulated photos for a squad of Swedish soldiers who has joined the Kurdish militia in fighting against the Islamic State (ISIS) northeast Syria. The Kurdish YPG...
The United States still wants a negotiated political settlement in Syria that excludes President Bashar al-Assad, according to a senior U.S. envoy, but Washington's close allyGermany said talks with the Damascus government might still be necessary. As German Foreign...
The death toll in the world's most brutal conflicts climbed by more than 28 percent last year from 2013 with bloodshed in Syria worse than all others for the second year running, according to a study released on Wednesday. The Project for the Study of the 21st Century think...
(Reuters) - The United States lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone over Syria on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, stopping short of confirming the plane was taken down by Syrian air defenses, as reported by Syrian state media. "At this time, we have no information to...
