(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led International coalition on Sunday has killed the spokesman of Daesh (ISIS) in northern Idlib province hours of the US dawn-raid that eliminated daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Ziad jarad, head of the political office in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- During the period that following the announcement of the Caliphate in June 2014, several studies emerged focused on the Islamic State’s economic structure, the most significant resources the Islamic State depends on to fund its operations and cover its expenditures, and...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State group and the world's most wanted man, met his demise near a small village in northwestern Syria called Barisha. This is what we know about the area: - Geography - Barisha is located less than five kilometres from Turkey...

Syria's Kurdish forces said they expected revenge attacks by Daesh (ISIS) following the U.S. announcement Sunday that the extremist organisation's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed. "Sleeper cells will seek revenge for Baghdadi's death," Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of the...

The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world's most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead," Trump announced at the...

Turkey exchanged information and coordinated with the U.S. before an American operation to reportedly kill a terrorist chief in northwestern Syria, Turkey's National Defense Ministry said Sunday.  “Prior to the U.S. Operation in Idlib Province of Syria last night, information...

Russian women who were held in Kurdish-controlled camps in Syria as Daesh (ISIS) supporters have recorded emotional appeals to President Vladimir Putin to help them return home. The audio recordings released by RBK news website late Saturday were provided by Chechen rights ombudswoman Kheda...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Sunday it agreed to re-deploy away from the Syria-Turkey border, in accordance with an agreement brokered by Russia in Sochi earlier this week. The Kurdish-led SDF said Syrian regimet forces will deploy along the border. It called on Russia to...

One Turkish military personnel was killed and five were wounded in Syria’s Ras Al-Ayn region after a rocket and mortar attack by Kurdish YPG militia, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The military was conducting reconnaissance work and responded in kind to the attack, the ministry...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A suspected Turkish force has made an overnight air drop in Idlib countryside, tracking Hurras al-Din group, the new al-Qaeda branch in Syria, local reporter said. The helicopter-borne raid has been chasing a convoy for Hurras al-Din fighters near the village...

The United Nations on Saturday opened a new section of a camp for the displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan to host refugees fleeing Turkish troops in northeast Syria. "Around 11,000 refugees are now living in Bardarach, which is at capacity," said Rashid Hussein Rashid, spokesman for the UN's...

Clashes in northeast Syria between pro-Ankara fighters backed by the Turkish air force and regime-backed Kurdish forces left 16 dead on Saturday, a monitor said. Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP that nine pro-Turkish fighters and six members...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey would "clear terrorists" on its border in northern Syria if Syrian Kurdish militia did not withdraw by the end of a deadline agreed with Russia. "If the terrorists are not cleared at the end of the 150 hours, we will take control...

Hand-in-hand with locals, Syrian women who took shelter in a Turkish border city are taking back their lives through making natural soap with support from a nonprofit group. “Friendship is universal, something human, and has nothing to do with language,” said Zainab, 40, who fled Qamishli,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should be investigated and indicted for war crimes over his country's military offensive in Syria, former prosecutor and U.N. investigator Carla del Ponte said in an interview published Saturday. Del Ponte, a former member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on...

Syrian troops reached a key area near Turkey's border Saturday after sending further reinforcements to the region, in what a war monitor said was its largest deployment there in years. Syrian regime forces entered the provincial borders of the town of Ras al-Ain, state news agency SANA...

The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. It was the latest sign that extracting the military from Syria is more uncertain...

Dutch police this week arrested a 29-year-old Syrian alleged former commander of the Ahrar al-Sham Islamist insurgent group on suspicion of having committed war crimes, the public prosecutor's office said on Friday. Police arrested the unnamed man on Tuesday in a center for asylum...

The United States will spare Turkey from sanctions over its purchase of the S-400 missile system from Russia if it does not turn it on, a US official said Friday. President Donald Trump on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Turkey that had been imposed over its assault on US-allied Syrian...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three women were killed and four children wounded Friday when the regime's artillery fire struck Jisr al-Shughour region in northern Idlib province, activists said. The attack on the de-escalation zone is the second in 48 hours. Artillery...