Islamic State militants took back a stronghold in Syria's northern Aleppo countryside on Monday, days after losing it to a grouping of mainly Turkish-backed rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Factions fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy ground battles between Isis and rebel factions have been ongoing for the last past hours, local sources said. Rebel factions expelled Isis and recaptured villages of Yahmoul, Baraghida, Jariz, Tilal Hussein. According to the local sources, rebel factions continue to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched Saturday a counterattack on regime forces and allied militias in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, seizing control of three towns, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have recaptured al-Khalediya town and big parts of Barneh and Zeitan...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) died of his wounds on Friday in northern Aleppo province, activists said. The Turkish national, known as 'Jiya', was the YPG's  military commander in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city. Jiya...