When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Monday killed 6 people, including senior commander from Haya't Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The strike targeted a car carrying Abu Jaber al-Hamwi, senior commander in the powerful alliance that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Students in the ISIS-held neighborhoods of besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus can not escape the radical curriculum of the Islamic State that incites for bloodshed and brutality. ISIS has forced the teaching its curriculum in 2 schools, one on al-Oroba neighbourhood for...

The Tabqa Euphrates dam is not damaged or malfunctioning and engineers inspect its operations fully, a Syrian rebel spokeswoman said on Monday after ISIS militants said it was at risk of collapse. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are fighting to repel ISIS from the dam, 40 km (26 miles)...