(Zaman Al Wasl)- Huge explosion rocked the village of Qomhana in the central Hama province as rebels and regime forces engage in fierce clashes early Friday. Local activists said the powerful Islamist alliance of Haya't Tahrir al-Sham, led by former al-Qaeda group Fatha al-Sham, has carried...

(New York Times)- Abu Mohammed is bored. He estimates that two years ago he earned more than $800,000 from smuggling thousands of migrants into Turkey from Greece. He rented an office in Aksaray, an area of Istanbul popular with Syrians, to serve as his headquarters. At one point, he had more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Tribes Army has rebuffed regime claims that his alliance of tribes based at the border with Jordan and Iraq is an affiliate to Jordan's intelligence, saying the coordination with Amman is strategic in fighting ISIS. Sheikh Rakan Khudhair, who with several Free...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias are expected to attack soon an Islamic State-held dam and air base west of the Syrian city of Raqqa, their spokesman said on Thursday, part of an accelerating campaign to capture the hardline group's stronghold. The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State...