U.S.-backed fighters in Syria have captured a senior Daesh (ISIS) leader who served as an assistant to the group's self-declared "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia alliance that holds the quarter of Syria east of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of rebel-held areas in northern Syria  came out to streets   to rally against the regime in spite of a fragile buffer zone deal and the heavy bombardment. As every Friday for the past 14 weeks, demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the Syrian...

Ahmad Othman, commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)-affiliated Sultan Murad Brigade, said Friday that the YPG/PKK terrorist group was operating in eastern Syria on the pretext of fighting Daesh militants who, he asserted, were not actually in the area. He went on to say that the FSA...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime artillery overnight pounded most of rebel-held areas in northern Syria, where Russia and Turkey agreed on a buffer zone in September, such an escalation followed the Israeli airstrikes on an Iranian site south of Damascus, local activists said. The heavy...