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Turkish army destroys ISIS rocket launchers in Syria

The Turkish Armed Forces destroyed three rocket launchers and three cars and "neutralized" a total of 55 ISIS militants in northern Syria on Saturday evening, according to military sources. Speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media, the sources...

Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria freed

Three Spanish freelance journalists who went missing in Syria last year and were believed to have been kidnapped have been released, the Spanish government said on Saturday. The three men - Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre - disappeared last July. They were working on an...

Hama prison siege worsens as inmates revolt

Conditions were worsening in a Syrian prison where nearly 800 mostly political detainees have launched a revolt, with security forces failing in an attempt to storm the facility overnight, rights groups and activists said on Saturday. The prison has been surrounded by government forces since...

Iran says several of its soldiers killed near Aleppo

Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran's biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized the strategic village of Khan...

ISIS fighters seize new gas field in eastern Homs

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State captures half of al-Muhur gas field north west of Palmyra following an Isis offensive on regime strongholds on Friday, activists reported. Isis captured the regime defensive locations of the field which led to regime withdrawal to the other part of the field....

5 people killed in U.S.-led air strikes on Aleppo

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Six civilians including 5 children were killed by International Coalition bombing targeting Ihtimalat village on Saturday in northern Aleppo countryside. Coordination Committees said regime warplanes raided al-Rashideen neighborhood, Reef al-Muhaniseen area, and Kafar Naha...

Refugees have only bitter memories as war continues

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Abo Khalid have lost his brother-in-law and all his children, he will never hear the word “uncle” after that, but the tragedy is that he does not know where they graves are, to at least visit them and pray for them, this is one of the uncountable...

Rebels seize village near Aleppo, 73 killed: monitor

Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people...