A U.S.-backed assault on Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria, is unlikely to pierce the city itself before President Barack Obama leaves office in January, denying him the chance to claim the end of the group's "caliphate" as part of his legacy. Although a U.S.-backed alliance of...

(Independent)- President Bashar al-Assad laughed and said he sleeps fine when he was asked during an interview about all the children killed every day in Syria. Mr Assad also said the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians is “the fault of terrorists” and said “we are talking...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl news site mourns its local reporter in Idlib province, Ammar Bakour, who lost his life on Sunday in regime air strikes on the town of al-Dana. Bakour passed away with 8 civilians when the regime warplanes rocked the the town with 4 vacuum missiles. The...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Regime forces targeted a children’s nursery in town of Harasta in Damascus countryside with mortar rockets. Reports from the area indicate that five children so far were killed and dozens injured in the attack including a Civil Defense volunteer who was rescuing the...