(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of Military Intelligence Branch in Idlib province asked General Nufal al-Hussein in September 2011 to form a Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigade in Jabal al-Zaweyeh in Idlib countryside, according to Marwan Mekhbat. Mekhbat said General Nufal told him he will be the leader of...

The Syrian army backed by Russian air strikes has opened a major new front against Islamic State, the third big assault on the self-proclaimed caliphate this week after Iraqi forces attempted to storm a city and a Syrian militia advanced with U.S. support. The week's three big offensives are...

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on Thursday, killing and wounding several people, a monitoring group and state media reported. The explosion took place near the city center as people were leaving prayers, state TV reported, describing...

Translation by Rana Abdul  (Zaman al-Wasl)- The Syrian regime has recruited agents in the ranks of Islamic State, leaked documents showed. The documents published in accordance with Damascus Documents include correspondence between Major General Ali Mamlouk, head of National Security...