Hundreds of rebel fighters and thousands of civilians are to evacuate the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya after rebels and the Syrian army agreed to a deal, a rebel leader and a state news agency have said. Thursday's development ended one of the longest standoffs in the Syria's five-year...

A  UN investigation has established that President Bashar al-Assad's forces carried out at least two chemical attacks in Syria and that Islamic State [IS] militants used mustard gas as a weapon. The panel was able to identify the perpetrators of three chemical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched major attack on Free Syrian Army units based in the Syrian desert east of Damascus, using car bomb and heavy shelling, local monitor group said. Ahmed al-Abdo Forces, key unit in the Southern Front alliance, said it had thwarted the attack,...

 Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the government, consolidating the Kurds' grip on Syria's northeast as Turkey increased its efforts to check their influence. The Kurdish YPG militia, a critical part of...