( New York Times )- After surviving a siege by Syrian forces, Firas al-Rahim and his family were removed from a rebel-held area of Homs province in central Syria and taken to an impoverished territory in the northwest. But since Mr. Rahim, his wife and their four children arrived in Idlib...

US-backed fighters fought pitched battles Sunday with Islamic State group jihadists inside their Syria bastion Raqa, an AFP correspondent said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Arab-Kurd alliance, first entered Raqa two months ago and have since captured more than half of the northern city,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias took 12 villages from the Islamic State east of Raqqa in a week of clashes, local activists said.    The regime army is racing with the US-led forces to capture territory from ISIS since both side have reached the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 104 detainees, including 24 women, have been freed in a prisoner swap with regime forces as a part of evacuation deal reached last July to deport  powerful Tahrir al-Sham  from a Lebanese border enclave, activists said on Saturday.   The...