Aleppo's moderate rebels backed by U.S.led air strikes have made a progress in the northern countryside against ISIS fighters after fierce fighting, activists said on Thursday. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said rebels had taken 5 checkpoints from ISIS in Om Housh and Om Qura villages, taking...

Muscat and Damascus agreed to work together to end Syria's brutal war, official media reported, as the Syrian foreign minister Thursday made his first Gulf visit since the conflict erupted in 2011. Foreign Minister Walid Muallem met Oman's chief diplomat Yussef bin Alawi to discuss "several...

 ISIS has seized control of the desert city of al-Qaryatayn east Homs after a major offensive started by Tuesday, followed by number on suicide bombs rocked Syrian army strongholds at the gates of the city, supporters of the hardline group and activists said Thursday. By taking...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday he had reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart on a draft U.N. resolution aimed at identifying the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. "We also talked about the UN Resolution and indeed I believe...

 At least 14 Syrian rebels surrendered to Lebanese Hezbollah militia in the border city of Zabadani Wednesday, as allied forces inch closer to claiming control of the last rebel stronghold along the Lebanese frontier, a security source told The Daily Star. Syrian army’s 4th Armored...

A boat packed with up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Wednesday and many were feared dead, officials and aid agencies said. The Italian Coast Guard and the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said about 400 people had been rescued and 25 bodies...

By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hassan Abdul-Azim, the General Coordinator for the Opposition Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change said that the National Coalition has tackled the obstacle of Assad’s stepping down in Geneva2, as Kofi Anan’s initiative had not...

The United States has conducted its first drone strike into northern Syria from a base in Turkey, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, ahead of what Ankara said would soon be a "comprehensive battle" against Islamic State militants there. A spokesman in Washington said the raid by an unmanned...

Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, has evacuated its bases in two border villages with Turkey, activists said on Wednesday, a step seen by observes intrudes to the planned Turkish buffer zone. Nusra Front did not assured the withdrawal news from Hewar killis and Ghazel villages to favor...

 In less than one week, key Islamist rebel group, the Fatah Army, was able to regain villages and hills from Syrian regime army in northern province of Idlib, a move has triggered panic amid Bashar al-Assad's supporters in the neighboring Sahl al-Ghab plain and pushed tens of Alawite...

Syrian Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday it had been in talks with an Iranian delegation regarding the Syrian city of Zabadani but that the discussions had been halted. Any such talks between the conservative Sunni Islamist group and Shi'ite Iran would be highly...

An ISIS suicide bomber late on Tuesday blew himself up at the gates of T-4 military airport east of Homs city, leaving 11 army soldiers dead, activists said. Syrian regime's powerful air base in Syria desert near ancient city of Palmyra has become a main target for the hardline Sunni group in...

More than 2,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe this year, data showed Tuesday, bearing testimony to migrants' increasingly desperate attempts to reach the continent. "Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and...

One of Syrian regime's sincere tribal fighters has been killed in a land mine in Deir Ezzor city near the military airport, activists said on Wednesday. Abdulbaset Hamdo, commander of al-Ashaer Army, or Army of the Tribes, was killed due to a land mine planted on his road near Deir Ezzor...

U.S. aircraft and drones are arriving in Turkish air bases and a comprehensive battle against Islamic State militants will be launched soon, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. Turkey formally approved the use of its air bases by U.S. and coalition...

 At least 994 regime army soldiers, including 27 officers, had been killed last July, 70 of them were buried in mass grave in northern province of Idlib, Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union said. SRCU also reported death of 241 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad's forces in Zabadani city...

Iran will soon present the United Nations with a peace plan for Syria, where civil war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe and allowed the Islamic State group to flourish, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday. Tehran, which has stood by its ally, Syrian...

Fatah Army on Tuesday has killed 14 Syrian army soldiers in the northern province of Idlib, taking control of Tel al-Hekmah hill south of Jisr al-Shughour town, activists said. The Army of Conquest, or Fatha Army, has made advances against the military in several parts of Syria in recent...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem arrived in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with officials from allies Iran and Russia that are expected to focus on efforts to end the civil war in his country. Iran and Russia have stood by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, providing...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Activists in Deir Ezzor in Northern of Syria had started a campaign to show violations of the National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and Opposition in the city, demanding its representative to resign for letting down the city and its rebels beside inability to...