(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground on Sunday from ISIS in the northern countryside of Aleppo near the Turkish border, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have captured towns of Qura Cobri, Qura Mazra'a and al-Kherba which had been controlled by ISIS two weeks ago. Omar...

Syrian refugee Hussein Hammoud is banking on a broom handle to protect his 12 children from the winter cold. He is using one to prop up the flimsy shelter that has already collapsed once this year under the weight of snow in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. "The snow brought down the tent on our...

(The Guardian)- Islamic State militants murdered a journalist who wrote about daily life in occupied Raqqa, having accused her of being a spy, activists have confirmed. Ruqia Hassan, 30, was killed in September, but news of her death became widely known this week after Isis claimed...

A Syrian insurgent group said Sunday it was pulling out of a coalition of Islamist factions operating in the northwest of the country, in order to redeploy around Aleppo where pro-government forces have intensified assaults in recent months. Since Russia's intervention in the Syria conflict...