Nearly half a million Syrians have returned to their homes so far this year, including 440,000 internally displaced people and more than 31,000 returning from neighbouring countries, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Most returned to Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus, it said,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militants of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have attacked a group of displaced people from Tabqa after they demanded to be allowed to return to their homes in the town of al-Sweidiya. The news comes as videos are leaked of PYD forces torturing civilians to extract...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and ten more wounded on Friday in artillery shelling on northern towns of Homs province, local reporter said. The bombardment hit Taer Mala, Talbiseh and al-Ghanto in the northern countryside. The regime checkpoints also launched mortar...

Sheen Ibrahim's track record fighting ultra-hardline militants explains U.S. President Donald Trump's policy of arming Syrian Kurds like her as he seeks to eradicate Islamic State. It also highlights the risks. Taught by her brother to fire an AK-47 at 15 and encouraged by her mother to...