(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State said it had foiled the U.S.-led coalition's air-drop onto the southern bank of the Euphrates west of Tabqa town last Tuesday, Amaq news agency said as Friday's strategic advance of the U.S.-backed forces refutes ISIS claims.   The Pentagon said on Wednesday...

Five children were among the 12 people killed after a plastic boat carrying 22 Syrians to Greece sunk off Turkey's Aegean coastal town of Kusadasi on Friday, the private Dogan news agency said. Dogan said of the 22 migrants on board, seven had been rescued while three were still being...

The international coalition battling the Islamic State group will begin a final push on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa in the coming days, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Friday. But on the ground, the US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance spearheading the battle for the...

(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...