Syrian government forces and a Kurdish militia have driven Islamic State fighters out of Hasaka city in Syria's far northeast, a month after the hardline group attacked it, a group monitoring the four-year-old war said on Tuesday. Hasaka is the capital of a strategically important...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Ahmed Jomaa, the “Alive Martyr”, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon who has been kept in Roumieh prison for a year although he has two amputated legs and an upper arm without any trial or a lawyer to defend him.  Despite his disability,...

Syria’s strongest allied group, the Fatah Army, has made rapid advance in the western countryside of Idlib and nearby Sahl al-Ghab plain in Hama province, taking control of 12 hills and villages and inflicting humiliating defeats on Syrian regime army, activists and rebel sources said on...

Turkey and the United States are working on plans to provide air cover for Syrian rebels and jointly sweep Islamic State fighters from a strip of land along the Turkish border, bolstering the NATO member's security and possibly providing a safe haven for civilians. Long a...