(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by heavy aerial bombing on Thursday launched major offensive on the town of Soran in Hama province,  activist said. The regime helicopters have droped more than 80 barrel bombs on the town that controlled by Jaish al-Izzah which claimed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians have been killed in regime's heavy artillery shelling on the city of Douma, northeast of Damascus; activists said Thursday. Dozens were also wounded since the beginning of  regime offensive late on Wednesday, that targeted the civil...

(CNN)- The small dorm room in Kirkuk, with gray-speckled terrazzo floors and wooden cots, was home to Monaly Najeeb and six other Christian women after ISIS took hold in Mosul and they were forced to abandon college. They restarted their studies in the Kurdish-controlled city, in that humble...

Fighting between Turkey and Kurdish militias in northern Syria is complicating plans to drive their mutual enemy Islamic State from its Syrian capital Raqqa, an operation U.S. officials have said may start within weeks. Turkish jets and armor, in support of Syrian rebels, have struck Kurdish...