Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey is determined to strengthen its cooperation with the U.S. against ISIL to maintain regional peace and security. Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Biden held a...
(Al Jazeera)- Heavy fighting has been reported in a suburb of Damascus as government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad try to wrest the area from control of rebel fighters. The suburb of Jobar on Saturday was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting the rebels...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 910 people, including 52 civilians, since the start of the campaign against Islamic State and other fighters two months ago, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday. The majority of...
(The Huffington Post)- The Islamic State group released a new video on Friday in which British hostage John Cantlie reveals that he believes he too will soon be executed like his former cellmates. Cantlie opens the video with an introduction of himself as the British citizen...
FISHERS, Indiana (AP) — The death of a U.S. aid worker at the hands of Islamic State militants is "barbaric" and is not a true reflection of Islam, a cleric told hundreds of people who gathered Friday for the first of three memorial services honoring the slain man. Sheikh...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 soldiers of forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed by radical Islamic State group near al-Shaer gas field east Homs, monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 21 soldiers of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies have staged 30 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq since Wednesday, the U.S. Central Command said on Friday. The 23 strikes in Iraq included six near Baiji that hit Islamic State...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighters of Syria’s al-Qaeda wing al-Nusra Front attacked on Friday two checkpoints belong to Hezbollah militia on the Lebanese border, leaving number of the Shi'ite militants killed and wounded, according to statement posted...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Friday will become the latest in a parade of U.S. officials trying to push Turkey to step up its role in the international coalition's fight against Islamic State extremists. His visit follows weeks of public bickering between the two...
Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Houses and properties of displaced people of Baba Amr neighborhood of war-torn city of Homs have been distributed on regime army officers, Local activists said....
Beirut, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) It is probably one of the most difficult and expensive-to-produce wines in the world, but its creators, brothers Karim and Sandro Saade, have decided to go on producing Domaine de Bargylus, despite the conflict that has been tearing Syria apart since 2011....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Opposition's National Coalition holds on Friday its regular meeting to discuss Ahmed Tomen's proposed formation of the new cabinet, source said. The Interim prime minister, who preferred to keep four ministers from the...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that "international cooperation" was necessary to crush the Islamic State group, which is the target of a US-led campaign. "The region is going through decisive times" and the most important factor in determining the outcome is...
AMMAN (Reuters) - Fighters from Al Qaeda's Nusra Front and other insurgents attacked and briefly entered Baath City in southern Syria on Thursday, the army's last major bastion in a province flanking the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The battle is...
(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for human Rights has documented the names, pictures, videos, and place and date of death of no less than 17268 children victims who were killed by government forces since March 2011. Those children were killed by...
Soon after the young woman was released by the Syrian government in a prisoner exchange, activists began noticing the signs. The woman's husband immediately divorced her. She rarely ventured outside her parents' house. Not long after, she left for Turkey. Activist Kareem Saleh, who...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three fighters of the West-backed rebel group, Hazm movement, were killed on Thursday when an IED exploded in their car in Aleppo countryside, activists and monitoring groups said. Thaer Akkoush, the commander of security...
Turkey's widely-admired response to the refugee crisis sparked by the war in neighbouring Syria is now showing its limitations, with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees living in destitution and others being denied entry, Amnesty International warned Thursday. Turkey has...
U.S. airstrikes targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have helped Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, former U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford said during a meeting at the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hamas armed wing in Syria killed dozens of Palestinian militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad last week in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, commander said. The footage, which posted online last week by ‘Aknaf Beit al-Maqdes’...
