A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Wednesday it had recovered full control of the border town of Tel Abyad after Islamic State fighters raided its outskirts the day before in preparation for a larger assault, Reuters reported. Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, the Kurdish YPG militia and smaller...

An ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up near a base for Syrian air force intelligence in al-Furqlus town in the eastern countryside of Homs, leaving 20 soldiers killed, supporters of the hardline group said on social media Tuesday. ISIS twitter feeds posted a photos for the bomber, Abu al-Abbas...

 Syrian air force on Tuesday killed at least 15 civilians, including a child, in raids on al-Saleheen neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Barrel bomb attacks have also targeted al-Ansari neighborhood, leaving dozens wounded. the aerial campaign...

Islamic State fighters stormed the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on the Turkish border on Tuesday and captured a neighborhood from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, but suffered setbacks in the northeastern city of Hasaka, a monitor and the army said. Islamic State has launched simultaneous attacks...

Syrian opposition's head Khaled Khoja to visit Geneva on Wednesday accompanied with 6 National Coalition members, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The unexpressed visit came over the third round of Syria's Peace Talks that planned to take place in the Switzerland's capital. The UN-Arab League...

The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday. The beheadings took place in the eastern Deir al-Zor province this week said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian...

Two Syrian men purportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in east Lebanon were released several hours later, the National News Agency said Tuesday. The report said Mohammad Zakaria Yehya, 28, and Ismail Fahed Noureddine, 31, were released shortly before midnight. NNA had said the two men...

  The military spokesman of South Storm battle in Daraa province said a homemade missile has destroyed the military operations room of Syrian forces in the Old City of Daraa, the Syrian Media Commission reported on Monday. The spokesman (Dubbed: Abu Qusai) said fighters of the South Storm...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to continue political, economic and military support Syria as he called on all Middle East nations to join forces against ISIS. Putin called on all nations to 'pool their efforts together' to fight Islamic militants, regardless of their relations...

Three Islamic State group car bombs killed 12 Syrian troops and militiamen in the northeastern city of Hasakeh where the extremists have taken two districts, AFP reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 30 civilians have been killed in the clashes, with an increase in...

  Dozens of fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Syrian government forces have been killed in ongoing battles in Hasakah province, a monitoring group and activists said. The fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people, the UN said. At least nine ISIL...

Umm Atef al-Darkouni sat in the corner of a hall in Sidon, in one of the complexes that hosts displaced Syrians. Ramadan brings back precious memories of better times for many refugees, and she reminisced about how things used to be in her home town of Qusair, before she was forced to flee....

(Soufyan Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) The battle of “South Storm” started 4 days ago by Daraa’s rebels to liberate their city from the regime forces. They have formed a central operation room with 7 sections, like emergency, medical, media, information and coordination section.  ...

Mohammad Nasif Khayrbik, a senior Syrian government security official close to President Bashar al-Assad, died Sunday morning after a long illness, state media said. Khayrbik was a key confidante of the Assad family and the target of EU and U.S. sanctions for his alleged role in putting down...

A rebel mortar attack killed four civilians on Sunday in the Syrian capital as government forces battled Islamic State group jihadists in the northern city of Hasakeh, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a mortar round struck Revolution Street in central Damascus,...

A well-informed source said no one of the commanders of the Southern Front and Nusra Front have been killed in the regime airstrike on their meeting in Garz town in the southern province of Daraa on Saturday. The meeting of Southern Front and Syria's al-Qaeda wing, the Nusra Front, was to...

Syrian regime barrel bomb attacks on northern city of Aleppo have killed 7 people, including four children and two women, activists and local reporter said Saturday. The barrel bomb attack on al-Halk neighborhood in rebel-held Aleppo killed 7 civilians, including four children and two women,...

Syrian Opposition's Interim Government seeks to develop its media office by contracting with a professional corporation, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Since the Syrian revolution erupted in March 2011, opposition media s has never fulfilled the desired aspirations, activists said, what reflect...

Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide bombers. Further east, Islamic State pressed another assault on...

Kurdish forces and the Syrian army fought separate battles with Islamic State around Hasaka city in northeast Syria overnight as the hardline group tried to capture more areas of the major urban center near the Iraqi border, a monitor said on Saturday. Islamic State launched an assault on...