(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday thwarted major attack carried out by regime forces in the western countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. The regime army backed by Shiite militias launched an offensive to take villages of Jabal Shwaihna, Jabal Maara and Rashdin al-Shamaliya west...

Syrian army units were clearing land mines and explosives left behind by ISIS militants in the historic town of Palmyra Friday, a day after government troops and allied militiamen recaptured it from the extremists, a Syrian security official said. The military expects the process to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Peshmerga killed and injured several fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while defending a Peshmerga location from the PKK forces’ attack at the Syrian-Iraqi border region on Friday, commander said. Lieutenant Saadoun Sino said the PKK fighters...

A major battle to liberate ISIS' stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria is looming, with U.S. officials looking to build on momentum from victories on the battlefields of Mosul in Iraq. The Pentagon has drawn up a secret plan to do that, likely leaning on local allies with stepped-up American...