Syria's southern province of Daraa, which could be the regime's next target after its bloody reprisal of Eastern Ghouta, is the birthplace of the uprising which erupted in 2011. This agricultural region lies south of Damascus and also shares borders with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese soldier has beaten a Syrian refugee to death in Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, activists said Wednesday. The soldier, identified as Abudlatif Zaitouni, has hit Mohamed Abdul Jawad Wais, 46, with a baton on his head, continuing a series of crimes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least one person killed in regime artillery fire on the town of Hobit in northern Idlib province, White Helmets said Wednesday. Rescuing operations are still underway, the Civil Defense agency says. Idlib has been a haven for tens of thousands of rebels and...

Some of the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces that had abandoned offensive operations against Daesh (ISIS) have started returning to fight the islamic militants, a U.S. military official said Tuesday. Kurdish members of the Syrian Democratic Forces - made up of Kurds, Syrian Arabs and other...