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U.S.-led airstrikes kill family of 5 in Deir Ezzor

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition killed a family of five, including 3 children, in airstrikes targeted north of Deir Ezzor province in support of Kurdish-led fighters who press to expel ISIS from the de facto capital, local sources said Saturday. The US-led strikes also pounded a prison...

42 regime troops killed by ISIS in June: media

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Pro-regime media outlets mourned 42 troops, including 11 officers, who had been killed by the Islamic State in the Syrian desert last June. The desert, also known as Badiya, extends over 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles) from central Syria to the borders...

US-backed forces in new attack on ISIS in Syria's Raqqa

US-backed fighters have launched a renewed attack on Daesh (ISIS) extremists inside their Syrian bastion Raqqa, seeking to retake a key eastern neighborhood, a monitor said on Saturday. "The Syrian Democratic Forces started a counter-offensive on Friday night to retake Al-Senaa," said Rami...

Syrian wheat crop to fall far short of forecast

The Syrian government has vastly overestimated the size of the country’s wheat crop, officials, traders and farmers told Reuters, indicating that a population that has endured unrelenting war could struggle to feed itself this year. A large part of Syria’s agricultural heartland in the...