The U.S.-backed Syrian force closing in on Daesh's (ISIS) last territorial bastion near the Iraqi border expects a "decisive battle" Sunday after advancing slowly, a spokesman said overnight. Capturing Baghouz, an eastern Syrian village on the bank of the Euphrates River, would cap four...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nouran Darwish, a 11-year-old Syrian refugee girl, drew the attention of the Dutch audience to her excellent performance and her captivating presence in the film "Zomer Zonder Mama, Summer Without Mama", in which she participated as a leading actress. The film,...

Fighters with the U.S.-backed force battling Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow the push on the last area they control, a spokesperson for the group said. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

Ten members of Islamic State were summarily executed in Syria’s Idlib province on Saturday by Tahrir al-Sham, according to Ebaa News Agency, a news outlet that supports the rival jihadist alliance. Ebaa said the executions were in response to an Islamic State suicide bomb attack at a...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia said on Thursday it had freed 24 of its fighters from Islamic State militants in the jihadists’ last enclave near the Iraqi border. The SDF provided no details about how its fighters were recovered, and it was not immediately clear if...

More than 1,000 people managed to leave ISIS held al-Baghouz towards areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to multiple reports, however 51 people also perished. On Tuesday, 1,400 individuals, including "at least" 350 ISIS members left al-Baghouz toward SDF...

Having joined Islamic State in Syria four years ago, the Algerian woman only abandoned the jihadists’ last scrap of besieged territory when her daughter was shot in the leg. “I don’t regret it, even now ... If my daughter was not injured, I would have stayed,” said the woman, speaking...

Some want to fight till the end and others want to flee: a split is emerging among jihadists as starvation grips their imploding "caliphate" in eastern Syria. Thousands of men, women and children, including hundreds of jihadists, are believed to be trapped in the Islamic State group's last...

Syria's regime army on Wednesday displayed a huge cache of what it said were powerful explosives left behind by rebels in Daraa province, the birthplace of the uprising that sparked the country's civil war. During a government-organised trip for journalists to the area, an AFP correspondent...

US-backed forces in eastern Syria scrambled Wednesday to extract more families from the last dreg of the "caliphate" before delivering a final blow to holdout jihadists. Several thousand people -- fighters and their relatives -- are believed to be holed up in the last pocket of territory...

The motley crew of foreign jihadist wives held at the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria are united by at least one thing: the fear of being separated from their children. Penned in a special section of the camp and huddled in rudimentary tents, most of them are tight-lipped about the lives...

Air strikes have been stepped up against rebel-held northwestern Syria, the last major bastion of opponents of   Bashar al-Assad, prompting thousands of civilians to flee the town of Khan Sheikhoun, war monitors said on Tuesday. The area near the Turkish frontier is under a ceasefire...

Thousands of people have been displaced and dozens killed in one of the worst flare-ups to rattle a precarious truce deal in northwestern Syria, a monitor said Tuesday. Twenty regime troops and allied fighters were killed in attacks by a jihadist group on the edge of the Idlib region since...

Guns, laptops, gold coins and baby formula: when Syrian fighters search women emerging from the ruins of the jihadist "caliphate", what they find is not the contents of your average handbag. Women arrive in droves at a screening point controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, 20...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In this torture memo, Sarah al-Abdullah, 30, tells her suffering after being held by by Daesh (ISIS) and the Syrian regime. After seven months in Adra (Damascus) prison, I used to wish death all the time so that I could get rid of daily humiliation. My name was...

US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Tuesday screened and treated truckloads of suspected jihadists and relatives who left a village where the Islamic State group's "caliphate" is making its last stand. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) struggled to cope with the flow of people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least nine regime army troops killed by missile attack launched by the former al-Qaeda group in Idlib province, the group’s propaganda agency said Monday. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants have rocked an army battalion with the US-made TOW missile east of Idlib city,...

French President Emmmanuel Macron on Monday welcomed the United States’ decision to leave American troops in Syria, a reversal by U.S. President Donald Trump that came after an outcry from coalition allies such as France. “On the U.S. decision, I can only but welcome this choice,” Macron told...

Iraqi courts will prosecute 13 French citizens captured while fighting for the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, Iraq's President Barham Saleh said Monday. The fighters, who were turned over to Iraq after being seized by Syrian Kurdish forces, "will be judged according to Iraqi law,"...

Bashar al-Assad met Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday on his first visit to the Islamic republic since the start of the Syrian conflict. During the meeting, Assad expressed his gratitude to Iran for all that it has done for Syria during the conflict, according to the...