Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Al HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 fighters of Islamic State militant group have been killed on Thursday in the ongoing clashes with Kurdish forces near Ras al-Ayn town in the western...

BEIRUT ( The Daily Star ): Lebanese Army defector Abdallah Shehadeh in a video released Thursday said Hezbollah’s "manipulation" of the military and its "discrimination" against Sunni personnel were what prompted him to join the Nusra Front. “We enlisted in the Army in order to...

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  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime armed forces on Thursday have continued aerial bombardment ground shelling on rebel-held Jobar neighborhood and neighboring outskirts, killing 14 people, activists and monitoring group said. Regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported sporadic clashes on the 'disputed' Qalamoun Mountains between Syrian rebels and fighters of Lebanese militia Hezbollah, saying on Wednesday bodies of 6 Shiite militants were delivered to their families in southern Lebanon....

(Reuters) - American-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the jihadists' advance began to destabilize Turkey . The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the...

(AP)- Syria's state-run news agency and a government official say gunmen have assassinated a lawmaker in the restive central province of Hama. SANA says Waris al-Younnes was gunned down while travelling on a road linking the city of Hama with the town of Salamiyeh. He represented Hama...

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(Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes have killed several hundred Islamic State fighters around the Syrian town of Kobani, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, but it cautioned that the town near Turkey's border could still fall to the Sunni militant group. The U.S.-led coalition has...

(Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday, the U.S. military's Central Command said. The planes struck 16 buildings occupied...

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(Anadolu News Agency)- "Her lips were dark purple, her eyes were bloodshot and she was very weak when we arrived in Suruc," says Sewili Hamy, sitting beside her 8-year-old daughter, Besma, in an Istanbul hospital bed. Besma is just one of thousands of Syrian children caught up in...

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler MURSITPINAR, Turkey/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) - A merican-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have killed 5 soldiers in Handarat neighborhood of Aleppo province on Tuesday as the heavy fighting sharply escalated, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported for the first time the participation of new...

The United States and its allies held top-level military talks Tuesday as Washington hailed signs of progress in the fight against jihadists following a wave of air strikes in Syria. American-led warplanes hammered Islamic State (IS) group militants with 21 bombing raids near...

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BEIRUT: At least 10 Syrian army soldiers, including an officer, were killed in clashes with ISIS fighters Tuesday in a rare ground confrontation between the two sides in the eastern Deir al-Zor province, an activist group said. The clashes took place on Huwiejat Sakr, a small...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have hit Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Tuesday, leaving 7 civilians dead and dozens wounded, a monitoring group said. Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes have conducted airstrikes on Erbin and Ayn Terma towns in the Eastern...

Commanders from the US-led coalition against Islamic State jihadists will meet in Washington Tuesday to discuss halting the group's advance in Iraq and Syria, as air strikes failed to stop militants from reaching the centre of Kobane. IS fighters claimed nearly half of the...