ISTANBUL ( McClatchyDC )- They arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks, the favored vehicle of Islamist fighters in the Middle East and South Asia. But these men, the first graduates in the faltering U.S. train-and-equip program, were traveling into Syria to fight against an extremist...

Syrian regime air strikes killed 12 people and wounded dozens across northern province of Aleppo on Wednesday, activists and Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. At least 8 people, including 3 children, have lost their lives in Darret Ezzat town due to 4 vacuum missiles stormed their neighborhood....

Two suicide bombers killed a prominent figure from the Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al Sham when they blew up a local headquarters in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, rebel sources and a monitor said on Monday. They said Sheikh Abu Abdul Rahman al Salqeeni was killed along...

 (By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- “it has not crossed my mind at all that I would one day be forced to sell my clothes and my kids’ clothes and toys to afford for living”, in those painful words, om Noura, a Syrian refugee woman started her...